EULAR/EUSTAR Scleroderma Course
In this bi-annual course the students learn how to visit a SSc patient and how to evaluate the skin and internal organ involvement based on a combination of cutting-edge lectures and extensive hands-on sessions. In addition, numerous interactive cases stimulate real complications and further enhance the skills of the students.
Thanks to the excellent student to expert teacher relation (2:1) during the complete course, students have the unique opportunity to ask experts any kind of questions that might develop during the course and to initiate and maintain networks for their future clinical and scientific work. In addition, the practical sessions are accompanied by a series of state-of-the-art lectures to provide the most recent knowledge available. Moreover, due to the inclusion of patients associations from an increasing number of countries, the students have also the opportunity to intensify this essential contact.
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4th EULAR/EUSTAR Course on Scleroderma
27 - 30 January 2011
Belgrade, Serbia
EUSTAR
Under the auspices of the EULAR Standing Committee on International Clinical Studies Including Therapeutic Trials (ESCISIT), chaired by Prof. P. van Riel and then by Profs M. Dougados and A. Tyndall, the EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research (EUSTAR) group was announced at the annual EULAR congress 2003 in Lisbon, Portugal, and formalised in Berlin, Germany in 2004. The aim of the group is to foster the awareness and education about the disease and to promote basic and clinical research in full cooperation with EULAR and patient associations.