List of EMS Council Meetings

List of past and upcoming European Medical Students' Council meetings.
London Meeting (August 2004)
The meeting focused mainly on the Ba/Ma structure of the Bologna Process and how it may be applied to Medical Education. But the first EMSA council meeting also took on other important European issues such as the European Working Time Directive, EU enlargement implications on medical profession and the European Commission paper on the evaluation of non-formal education.
Warsaw Meeting (February 2005)
The goal of the 2nd EMS Council meeting was to determine what it is that we as medical students need in order to protect the patient. What do we need to know? What do we need to learn? What do we need to be able to do or perform? What should be included in a medical school’s core curriculum on Patient Safety?
The outcomes were organised into seven categories. Each describes the competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) that a newly graduated medical doctor can be expected to demonstrate. The newly graduated doctor can:
* Prioritise the patient
* Awareness of patient safety and the intention to improve
* Learn for error
* Attitude and character
* Team and communication
* Stress management
* Guidelines and protocol
Also, the Council argues that opting out of the European Working Time Directive should not be an option, as it may prompt financial, social and/or peer pressure. Opting out would not in any way benefit the worthy aims of the guidelines, since it would only undermine its recommendations.
Albufeira Meeting (January 2006)
As the main theme of the 3rd EMS Council Meeting was “Medical Students’ Rights”. Participants debated about special facilities universities have to offer their medical students concerning the specific and additional stresses they have to face during their studies. Some examples of the stresses future doctors will meet are the workload, career choices and safety and security. In the workshops the participants talked for example about the welfare and support medical students should expect from their faculty.
Heidelberg Meeting (May/June 2007)
The Council held its fourth meeting from the 30th May till the 3rd June 2007 in Heidelberg, Germany. The main theme was Information to Patients. The Heidelberg Resolution details the medicial students' view on the four main issues on the theme of Information to Patients:
:A. Improving Information to Patients by better Medical Education
:B. Patient Empowerment and Information to Patients
:C. The role of the pharmaceutical industry in providing Information to Patients
:D. Collaboration between physicians and pharmacists in informing patients

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