Severe mental illness and European COVID-19 vaccination strategies 2021-02-24

The UEMS Section of Psychiatry contributed to a paper entitled "Severe mental illness and European COVID-19 vaccination strategies" published in the Lancet, which emphasizes that people with severe mental illness are not being prioritised for vaccination.

Read the full paper here.

The Coalition for Vaccination calls on healthcare professionals to get vaccinated against COVID-19 2021-02-10

The Coalition for Vaccination has published a manifesto to encourage healthcare professionals to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The manifesto highlights the main reasons why all healthcare professionals should get vaccinated against COVID-19 when they have the opportunity to do so, and why they should help promote the vaccination against COVID-19 among the general public.

Read the manifesto here.

Virtual UEMS Conference on CME-CPD in Europe “EACCME: Facing the COVID challenge and beyond” 2021-02-09

The virtual UEMS Conference on CME-CPD in Europe entitled "EACCME: Facing the COVID challenge and beyond" will be streamed live on 12 March 2021, 14.00-16.30 CET

Please find the programme here

European Board of Surgery - Transplant 2021 exams 2021-01-28

The European Board of Surgery will organize several exams on August 28, 2021 in Milan, Italy.

The following exams will take place:

• Transplant Medicine
• Transplant Surgery
• Transplant Coordination

How the EACCME adapted its services in 2020 2020-12-15

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UEMS-EACCME took all possible measures to allow its CME-CPD providers to continue to provide top quality education accredited by EACCME during these difficult times.

Information of these measures can be found in this brochure, which we hope you will find helpful.

Do not hesitate to contact the EACCME team should you have any inquiry.

UEMS calls for changes in the EU Regulation on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices 2020-12-05

UEMS Sections warn that the Regulation EU 2017/746 (the IVD directive) is a threat to both precision medicine and crisis management if the Article 5-§5 conditions (d)-(i) are not removed.

Read the statement here.

The European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA) warns against the increased risk of fires during the Covid 19 pandemic 2020-11-23

The European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA) published a statement regarding the risks of fires in Intensive Care Units.

Read their statement here.