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!