Sub-Saharan Africa
EAN-AFAN Regional Teaching Courses in Sub-Saharan Africa
The RTCs in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) aim at bringing teaching of excellence to residents in neurology and neighboring specialties in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The RTC is organised in cooperation with AFAN – African Academy of Neurology - and other scientific societies who through their contribution make the RTC possible. The EAN Task Force “Neurology and Africa” together with the EAN Education Committee and Quality Assurance task-force guarantee the high scientific standard of the RTC. This educational activity in SSA started in 2008 and saw the participation of about 900 residents from over 20 countries of SSA.
The EAN Head Office together with the Chairperson of the EAN Task Force “Neurology and Africa” and the local organizer are responsible for the logistics surrounding the RTC in SSA.
RTCs in SSA reaches out to the following audience: Residents in neurology, internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine and all neighboring specialties to neurology.
14th Regional Teaching Course in Sub-Saharan Africa
Saturday, October 28 – Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Please note that the faculty members listed in the programme are tentative.
Overarching theme
Brain health across the life span
Saturday, 28 October 2023
Stroke: what can be done, what must be done
Stroke semiology: Making a diagnosis in acute settings, differential diagnoses. mimics and chameleons
WSO
Diagnostic and therapeutic acute care stroke management. Including stroke in infectious diseases (HIV, TBC)
Hany Aref (Egypt) - PAUNS
Pediatric stroke: Nuances of diagnosis and management, hemoglobinopathies, sickle cell disease and other conditions specific to children
Angelina Kakooza (Uganda) - AFAN
Stroke: neurorehabilitation and secondary stroke prophylaxis
Mayowa Owolabi (Nigeria) - AFAN
Clinical Grand Rounds: Stroke
How to …. prepare a case- or a scientific presentation
David Garcia Azorin (Spain) - EAN
Clinical case presentations by the faculty in rotating groups
Sunday, 29 October 2023
Epilepsies and seizure disorders across all ages
Epilepsies: Semiology
Paul Boon (Belgium) – EAN
First seizure management
Marieke Dekker (Tanzania) - AFAN
Pharmacological management of epilepsy – choosing the ASM, rational polytherapy and pharmacoresistant epilepsy
Augustina Charway-Felli (Ghana) - AFAN
Contemporary and appropriate use of technology in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy
Lawrence Tucker (South Africa) - AFAN
Clinical Grand Round: Epilepsy and seizure disorders
How to …. apply for a scientific grant
Amadou Gallo Diop (Senegal) - AFAN
Clinical case presentations by the faculty in rotating groups
Monday, 30 October 2023
Emergency Neurology across all ages with specific emphasis on history and clinical presentation
Acute headache with and without fever
Cristina Tassorelli (Italy) - IHS
Impairment of consciousness with and without fever
Erich Schmutzhard (Austria) - EAN
Acute confusional state with and without fever
Riadh Gouider (Tunisia) - PAUNS
Acute paraparesis with and without fever
Sarah Misbag El-Sadig (Sudan) - AFAN
Acute neuro-myopathies
Wolfgang Grisold (Austria) - WFN
Clinical Grand Rounds:Neurological emergencies
How to …. conceive a scientific project
WFN
Clinical case presentations by the faculty in rotating groups
Video dinner (TBC: Movement Disorders & Epilepsies)
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Dementias and Movement Disorders, particular emphasis on history and clinical presentation
Cognitive aging – from normal aging to dementia
IBRO
Practical tools in the evaluation of cognitive impairment
Chafiq Hicham (Morocco)
Movement disorders and cognitive decline
MDS
Treatment of Parkinson‘s disease and other Parkinsonian syndromes
MDS
Management of advanced neurological disease; palliative care in and out of a hospital setting
AAN
Clinical Grand Rounds: Cognitive impairment and movement disorders
How to …. write a scientific paper
AAN
Exam
Closure and farewell
Organised in cooperation with:
EAN - European Academy of Neurology and AFAN - African Academy of Neurology
Partner Organisations:
AAN American Academy of Neurology
IBRO International Brain Research Organisation
MDS Movement Disorder Society
WFN World Federation of Neurology
WSO World Stroke Organisation
