AMEE Student Initiatives Grant -‐ Winners Spring 2016
Disaster SISM DisasterSISM is a multilevel project consting of 3 activities: the DisasterSISM course (7 month long train-‐the trainers), the Basic DisasterSISM couse and Advanced DisasterSISM course (both lead by disaster teamer trained during a DisasterTEAM couse). Since 2008, the CRIMEDIM (Research Centre in Disaster and Emergency Medicine) in collaboration with the Segretariato Italiano Studenti in Medicina (SISM) has effectively been delivering a nationwide disaster medicine program to provide theoretical knowledge and basic skills in this field. DisasterTEAM, is a 7-‐month train the trainer course divided in 5 modules (introduction to disaster medicine, pre-‐hospital disaster management, hospital disaster preparedness, national disaster response, education and training in disaster medicine), and delivered combining traditional instructor-‐led teaching and innovative didactic methodologies, such as e-‐learning, problem-‐based learning, table-‐top exercises and computerized simulations. DisasterTEAM provides the competencies in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes to create and deliver basic disaster medicine courses in all medical schools using the same innovative training methods. The courses are the Basic DisasterSISM and the Advanced DisasterSISM. The Basic DisasterSISM covers the basic notions about disaster medicine and the approach of the pre-‐hospital and hospital response. The Advance DisasterSISM covers the international response to disaster emergency and the different pathologies that we can find in the field of disaster medicine. In the Advance Disaster SISM the SISM trainers are supported by CRIMEDIM professor. DREEM Imagine an educational institution with no students. Useless, right? Now, imagine an institution with students, only the students are completely invisible and don't really matter anywhere. This is exactly what has been happening in Greek medical education for decades; and this is exactly why HelMSIC (Hellenic Medical Students'International Committee) decided to take action and raise the students' voices. DREEM is an internationally accepted tool to assess the medical educational environment, which HelMSIC used in collaboration with the leading Medical Education professor in Greece. We took the first step and disseminated it among medical students throughout May and June 2015 to finally have a picture on what the educational environment is like. This effort was the first of a series of actions taken by our organization to measure exactly what the problems in our education are and will soon be followed by a measurement of clinical competencies. We look forward to the challenge of the future and to make sure that every student is involved in education!