EULAR/EUSTAR Scleroderma Course (bi-annual)
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.
Owing to the very good student to expert teacher relation (2:1) during the complete course, the
student has the unique opportunities to have experts at hand for any kind of question 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 actual knowledge available. Moreover, due to the
inclusion of patients associations of an increasing number of countries, the students have also the
opportunity to intensify this essential contact.
RELATED INFORMATION
The next course will be held in 2009.
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 2003 congress held in Lisbon, Portugal, and formalised in Berlin, Germany 2004. The aim of the group is to foster the awareness and education about the disease and promote basic and clinical research in full cooperation with EULAR and patient associations.