Medical students from all over Spain participate in the XVII National Congress of Pediatrics
Organized by the Student Delegation of the UC Faculty of Medicine, it will have a total of 50 workshops and 4 simultaneous round tables
The Student Delegation of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cantabria (UC) has organized the National Congress of Pediatrics for Medicine Students and Teaching Innovation (CNPEM) which this year celebrates its seventeenth edition.
From yesterday Thursday until tomorrow Saturday, more than 270 congressmen and nearly 70 speakers will participate in a total of 50 workshops and 4 simultaneous round tables, making this forum an unmissable event for medical students from all over the country.
UC Chancellor, Angel Pazoshas inaugurated this congress, accompanied by the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, samuel cosand the presidents of the Congress and students of 5th year of Medicine of the UC, Carmen Perez Cobo y Jose Joaquin Sobrado Andresin an act in which the Councilor for Tourism, Commerce, Markets and Institutional Relations of the Santander City Council, Miriam Diaz; the medical director of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital (HUMV), Rosa Ana Garcia; and the Vice President of the College of Physicians of Cantabria and Head of the HUMV Pediatric Service, Maria Jesus Cabero.
After the official act, the assistant of the HUMV Intensive Care Unit, Sandra Camposhas given the keynote address ‘Transplants and donations in pediatric age’.
This meeting also featured a first conference given yesterday Thursday by the specialist in Pediatrics and Pediatric Palliative Care at the Niño Jesús Hospital in Madrid, Inigo de Noriegaunder the title ‘Palliative Care’.
The congress will also include the celebration of four round tables which will address aspects related to ‘ACT: past, present and future’, ‘Chronic patient, the challenge of adherence’, ‘Vaccines and skepticism: the scourge of the 21st century’ and ‘Child abuse: the great fear in the clinic’.
The meeting will conclude tomorrow Saturday with the closing paper ‘Mental health in pediatric age and its impact on the correct evolution of the individual’, by the child and adolescent psychiatrist of the Cantabrian Health Service, Jana Gonzalezand the professor and assistant in the Psychiatry Unit of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Patricia Fernandez.
Caption: from left to right, Samuel Cos, Carmen Pérez Cobo, Miriam Díaz, Ángel Pazos, Rosa Ana García, María Jesús Cabero and José Joaquín Sobrado Andrés.