Education

Application for 2020 is open from 1 August until 31 October 2019

The next examination of the European Board of Neurology (EBN) will take place on Friday, 22 May 2020 at the EAN Congress in Paris.

The 13th Baltic Sea Summer School on Epilepsy (BSSSE 13) took place for the second time in Rostock, Germany, from August 18 to 24, 2019. Participants were pleased to improve their knowledge in several areas of epilepsy in this beautiful Baltic Sea city, that harbors one of the oldest universities in Germany, for a full week.

Here are the first thress reports from those who took part in the EAN clincial Fellowships in 2019. Keep visitng EANpages over the next months to read more reports from other particpants from 2019.

It was a great honor for me to be awarded with the European Academy of Neurology Research Experience Fellowship. During my Fellowship I was for six months (January 2019 to June 2019) at the Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany to perform the project “Transorbital Sonography in patients with Optic Neuritis”.

The purpose is to support training and experience for European Neurologists in any area of basic or clinical or applied research in neuroscience. The research work must be carried out at a European academic neurological department outside the country of residence. All applications should demonstrate experience/training of clear value to the home department/individual beyond that available in their own countries/institutions.   

It was the third time our Department in Lviv supervised a Regional Teaching Course (RTC), funded by the EAN. The RTC took place from 16-18 May, 2019.

The first ever Neuromuscular Summer Course held in Budapest at Semmelweis University and endorsed by the EAN on May 29-30  2019 was a great success.

The next EAN Autumn School will take in place in Loutraki, Greece, from October 17-20, 2019. The programme for the Autumn School is now available online on the EAN website covering the topics of cognitivie dysfuntion and headache. If you would like to attend the workshop, you need apply soon. The deadline for applications is July 31, 2019

The guideline education and Cost-Conscious Healthcare (CoCoCare) programme was launched prior to the 5th EAN Congress in Oslo. 

I am really grateful to the European Academy of Neurology for having granted my training research fellowship at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Cambridge. During the final year of my residency in Neurology at the Sapienza University of Rome, I had the great honour to join the research group of Professor Mariagrazia Spillantini, who discovered - in 1997 - the presence of alpha-synuclein in Lewy bodies, the pathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s Disease.

This year, at the annual hospital visit of the Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) of the European Academy of Neurology, nearly 80 resident and research fellows visited to the Neurology Department of the Rikshospitalet, organized with the support of Dr. Silje Bjerknes, local resident and PhD candidate.

Oslo hosted the general assembly of the resident and research fellow section (RRFS) of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) during the 5th annual congress. The assembly received a broad participation from RRFS members who were interested in gaining insight into the annual report as well as the new Treasurer elections.

This year’s „Round table discussion” of the EAN Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) was performed for the first time in form of two controversial topics with a “podium” discussion. The discussion was performed in a rather informal and open way between two experts providing a thorough discussion including pro and contra arguments based on individual experience as well as facts, allowing participants to ask questions in general as well as specific to their own situation and request advice.

In May, we celebrated together the 20th Anniversary Course with 120 young neurologists from more than 34 countries.