Regional Teaching Courses
Another fruitful project has been launched also in 2000 with the break of the millenium: Regional teaching courses (RTC). Aware of the fact, that some colleagues have had little opportunity to attend our annual congresses, we decided to bring our faculty to some East-European cities. The first one came true in Targu Mures in Romania. Laszlo Csiba took iniciative, together with the local organizer Ian Pascu. The faculty convened in Debrecen, Hungary and a small private airplane for 18 passengers took us from a military airfield to Targu Mures. You can see the participants on the attached photo. Many other regional courses followed. The first couple of courses were organized by our participants of the first EFNS Academy in 2000. The spirit of enthusiasm gave perfect triggers to Vitalie Lisnic, Yuri Alexeenko, Alexander Tsiskaridze and Alexander Sergeev to make very successful courses in their respective cities of Kisinau (2x), Vitebsk (2x), Tbilisi and Petrozavodsk. Our EFNS Management committee, presided that time by Jes Olesen, decided to support each of these courses by 20.000.- Euro. Attendees, usually around 150 - 300 persons, enjoyed lectures on 3 different neurological diseases in each course. The choice of topics was driven by local demands.
By Pavel Kalvach
2000 Targu Mures, Romania
2001 Chisinau, Moldova
2002 Vitebsk, Belarus
2002 Tbilisi, Georgia
2002 Eger, Hungary
2003 Chisinau, Moldova
2003 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
2003 Novosibirsk, Russia
2004 Vitebsk, Belarus
2004 Petrozavodsk, Russia
2004 Eger, Hungary
2004 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2005 Odessa, Ukraine
2005 Minsk, Belarus
2006 Novosibirsk, Russia
2006 Bucharest, Romania
2006 Ekaterinburg, Russia
2007 Odessa, Ukraine
2007 Sovata, Romania
2007 Sofia, Bulgaria
2008 Uzhghorod, Ukraine
2008 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
2009 Tbilisi, Georgia
2009 Yerevan, Armenia
2009 Brasov, Romania
2010 Chisinau, Moldova
2010 Ufa, Russia
2010 Odessa, Ukraine
2011 Yekaterinburg, Russia
2011 Lviv, Ukraine
2012 Iasi, Romania
2012 Novosibirsk, Russia
2013 Ohrid, Macedonia
2013 Odessa, Ukraine
2014 Baku, Azerbaijan
Regional Teaching Courses in sub-Saharan Africa
This initiative is the fruitful cooperation of and hard work of Prof. Amadou Gallo Diop, Chair of the WFN Africa Committee (2008) and leading neurologist at the University of Dakar together with Prof. Jean-Michel Vallat, Chair of the EFNS Task Force “Neurology & Africa” (2008), from the University Hospital in Limoges, France. Together with Eveline Sipido from the EFFS Headoffice, who helped to organize the entire course, these Teaching courses became a great success from the early days.
Since the beginning these course are alternating between French speaking and an English speaking sub-Saharan Countries.
The Initiative is not only supported by EFNS and WFN, but also by several (changing) Neurological Associations and sub-specialty societies such as AAN, WHO, IBRO, MDS, WSO, ILAE, to name a few. The initiative started in 2008, with the first course held in Dakar, Senegal and many are to follow.
In 2012 Professor Erich Schmutzhard from the University Hospital in Innsbruck, Austria took over the EFNS part of the organsation for the RTCs in Africa.
