CURRENT-ONGOING ACTIONS

  1. A meeting of a group of leading experts from the Belgrade School of Medicine and members of the Medicus is planned for July in London. This group of Professors of the School of Medicine from Belgrade has been formed to put together management guidelines for a number of medical specialties including diabetes, oncology, childhood asthma and cardiovascular diseases. The work of this group is supported by EPOS an agency funded by the European Union. The Medicus wishes to help with these guidelines either through direct involvement or facilitation of contacts with appropriate experts/bodies in the United Kingdom.
     

  2. Organisation of meetings:

    (i)    The Medicus will continue to seek logistic and financial support for meetings and seminars. It is currently negotiating with the European Respiratory Society to organise a meeting in Yugoslavia for Respiratory Physicians in summer 2003.

    (ii)   The Medicus will also support the creation of other programmes, all with the aim of helping postgraduate activities in Yugoslavia (see summary of postgraduate programmes supported by the Medicus)

  1. Contacts with professional organisation:

    (i)        The Medicus has established a link with The Royal Society of Medicine (http://www.roysocmed.ac.uk)  which has kindly allowed us to use one of their conference rooms for our meetings.

    (ii)       The Medicus is in the process of developing contacts with The Royal College of Physicians (http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk) . This institution plays a key role in maintaining standards of training and medical practice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

    (iii)      The British Society of Immunology is looking into ways of helping immunologists in Yugoslavia by providing free subscription to their journal and financial help for a Yugoslav immunologist to attend an annual congress in th UK.

  2. Contacts with charities:

    The Medicus has established and hopes to develop further contacts with the following organisations:

    (i)       Balkan Aid

    (ii)  United Orthodox Aid

    (iii)         Child Advocacy International

  1. Free or reduced rate subscriptions to medical journals for medical schools in Yugoslavia:

    The Medicus is asking leading journals to provide free or reduced rate subscription to the six medical schools in Yugoslavia. To date, free 2-year subscription has been given by the following journals:

                   New England Journal of Medicine (http://content.nejm.org)

                   The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/journal)

                   British Medical Journal (BMJ) (http://www.bmj.com)

                   The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)             (http://www.ama-assn.org).

                   Thorax (http://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/publi/thorax.html)

    The Medicus is most grateful to these leading medical journals for their generosity and help for colleagues in Yugoslavia.    The Medicus will continue with its attempts to get more free journals for the main specialties.
     

  2. The Medicus is hoping to contact associations of Yugoslav doctors in other countries around the world in order to join efforts in helping colleagues in Yugoslavia.


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