SLOVENE FAMILY MEDICINE SOCIETY

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY PRACTICE, UNIVERSITY LJUBLJANA

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY PRACTICE, UNIVERSITY MARIBOR

INSTITUTE OF FAMILY MEDICINE

OZG PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER BLED

organise under the patronage of

EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF TEACHERS IN GP/FP

21^th INTERNATIONAL EURACT BLED COURSE

Bled, Slovenia: September 18 – 22, 2012

LEARNING AND TEACHING ABOUT MANAGING DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP WITH PATIENTS IN GENERAL PRACTICE/FAMILY MEDICINE

                                                     PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

COURSE DIRECTORS:                                                     

Jaime Correia de Sousa (Portugal)                                           

Yonah Yaphe (Portugal)

Jo Buchanan (UK)

Henry Finnegan (Ireland)

Mateja Bulc (Slovenia)

Marija Petek-Ster (Slovenia)

LOCAL ORGANISATION:

Mateja Bulc (Slovenia)

Marija Petek-Ster (Slovenia)

Leopold Zonik (Slovenia)

SOCIAL PROGRAMME:

Nena Kopcavar-Gucek (Slovenia)

Marko Kocijan (Slovenia)

TARGET AUDIENCE

The course is aimed at educators in primary care who are involved in teaching at the university or practice level. We expect experienced teachers and also those on the beginning of their educational careers.

AIMS OF THE COURSE

At the end of the course the participants will:

-     Know the aspects and reasons for difficult relationships in family medicine

-          Understand the impact of difficult relationships on everyday practice and in education

-          Know how to follow the principles of professional conduct in difficult situations in practicing and teaching family medicine

-          Value the principles of professional conduct in every situation

-          Become aware of different aspects of “difficult “ patients  in everyday practice and teaching

SESSIONS

Tuesday:

Jaime Correia de Sousa

Session 1: introduction to the course: arrival and registration, introduction of the participants, Keynote 1: Medicaly unexplained symptoms

Session 2: group work: exercise, based on keynote 1

Session 3: group work

Wednesday:

Jo Buchanan:

Keynote 2 : Effective strategies (therapy) for dealing with difficult relationships

Session 4: group work 2: Exercise, based on keynote 2

Session 5: field work

Thursday:

Yonah Yaphe:

Keynote 3:  A teaching (research) method

Session 6: group work 3: Exercise, based on keynote 3

Session 7: group work 3

Friday:

Henry Finnegan

Keynote 4: Doctor's welbeing

Session 8: group work 4: Exercise, based on keynote 4

Session 9: Joker session

Saturday

Mateja Bulc

Session 10:  country reports

Session 11: groups presentations

Session 12: feed back, evaluation of the course

Session 13: closure

A detailed timetable will be available from the web-site http://www.drmed.org/index.php?k=10&n=702 and on http://www.bled-course.org.

During the course keynote presentations, group work, role-play, fieldwork and discussions will be held.

Country reports on research in GP/FP are welcome. A selected number of reports will be allocated to be presented to the audience during the Saturday morning plenary session. Abstracts should be sent to bulc.mateja@gmail.com by July 15, 2012. Course directors will evaluate the contributions and will notify you on the acceptance of the presentation by the August 31. Contributions will be assigned as oral or poster presentations.

SOCIAL EVENTS:

During conference: trekking, dancing lessons, Bled sightseeing, vine inspection, waterpolo game, farewell

dinner, etc. will take place. The participants will learn some basics in popular dances under the

supervision of a professional dance teacher. The dancing class appropriate for the beginners and advanced

dancers. Traditional water polo game between the Slovene participants and colleagues from abroad will

take place. During the fieldwork you will have the opportunity to visit local family doctors and practices

as well local primary health care centre in Bled.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The course will be held in English, located in Bled, Slovenia. Bled is a tourist resort in the Northwest of

Slovenia on the border to Italy and Austria and is easily accessible by car, train or plane. The nearest

airport Ljubljana is only 25 km away. To learn more about the venue visit http://www.bled.si/en/ and

about the venue hotel Jelovica visit http://www.hotel-jelovica.si/pages/eng/hj_eng.htm.

We suggest an early room booking (use the attached form) before July through the main registration office by letting them know you are participating the Bled course: Hotel Jelovica Bled, d.o.o. Cesta svobode 8, 4260 Bled, Slovenija; tel.: +386 (0) 4 5796 000;  fax.: 386 (0) 4 5741 550;

e-mail: jelovica@hotel-jelovica.si.

Reservation requests will be confirmed on a first come, first served basis. The deadline is August 20th. In the case that your choice atthat time is no longer available an alternative accommodation will be offered by the organisers.

The course fee is set at 300 EURO (V.A.T. included) and will include organisation of the course, course

attendance, fieldwork, refreshments during the brakes, lunch during lunch brakes from Tuesday to Friday

and the participation in exciting social events including farewell dinner. EURACT members pay a

reduced fee of 250 EURO (V.A.T. included), members of VdGM group pay 120 EURO (V.A.T.

included).

A limited number of sponsored places is available through the EURACT sponsorship

programme. Deadline for application is June 10th. Details will ve available at the EURACT website:

www.euract.org. Additional information:  bulc.mateja@gmail.com  and marija.petek-ster@mf.uni-lj.si.

Registration fee should be paid by a bank transfer to NLB, d.d., Account Holder: Zavod za razvoj

druzinske medicine, Poljanski nasip 58, 1000 Ljubljana, IBAN: SI56020450253583120, BIC or SWIFT:

LJBASI2X, Communication: EURACT 2009 + NAME OF THE DELEGATE.

You will receive a confirmation e-mail regarding the registration and payment. Cancellations received

before August 15th 2011, will be refunded minus bank and handling charges. After this date no refunds can be made.

The interested participants should send their preliminary applications until May 15, 2012, in the attached form, also available from http://www.drmed.org/index.php?k=10&n=702  to the following address:

Mrs. Ana Artnak,

Medicinska fakulteta,

Katedra za druzinsko medicino,

Poljanski nasip 58, p.o. Box 2218,

1104 Ljubljana,

e-mail: euract_bled_course@yahoo.com, kdrmed@mf.uni-lj.si

phone: +386-1-43-86-915

fax: +386-1-43-86-910