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Middle
East Academy for Medicine of Ageing (MEAMA)
Advanced Postgraduate Course No. VI
2018/2019
The Middle East Academy for Medicine of
Ageing announces the sixth advanced postgraduate course
in geriatrics for the years 2018/2020. The highly successful
format of intensive student participation in working groups,
giving short presentations and leading discussions, as
well as state-of-the-art lectures by experts in the field,
will be followed again. The sixth course of the MEAMA,
which consists of four sessions of two to three days each,
started in April 2018, in Tripoli , the future sessions
are planned for Oct 25 to 27, 2018 in Cairo and the third
and fourth sessions will be in 2019.
This intensive study course composed of four sessions
is directed towards physicians, nurses, social workers,
and health care officers, responsible for the health care
of older people, in addition to faculty members of medical,
nursing, social and physiotherapy schools interested in
developing the field of geriatrics and gerontology. The
course can also be attended by junior potential academic
staff, working in other fields (internal medicine, sub-specialities,
biology) involving the ageing process and care of elderly
people. The complete programme aims to increase scientific,
clinical, educational and managerial competencies in medical
gerontology. Participants that successfully complete the
four sessions will receive a postgraduate certificate
issued by the Group of Executive Board of the MEAMA.
The Sixth Course is accredited by Multimedia University
(MMU), Australia. It is counted toward 24 postgraduate
credits of any of the degrees offered by the University
including
1- Master of Science in Geriatrics and Gerontology (60
credits)
2- Postgraduate Diploma in Geriatrics and Gerontology
(36 credits)
3- Certificate in Geriatrics and Gerontology (24 credits)
Each session will grant the participant 6 credit hours
of course work and participant can elect to enrol in the
University to finish one of the above degrees.
Since 2018 all sessions of MEAMA will carry the logo of
International Institute on
Ageing -United Nation, Malta-(INIA).
A course with 4 sessions, each of 2-3
days, 2018/2019
Graduation
At the end of the course of 4 sessions
participants will receive a postgraduate certificate and
will be graduated as 'members of the MEAMA' A network
to stimulate the development and maintenance of services
for health related problems in elderly people in the Middle-
East Area
Location of the course:
The location of the sessions will be decided later between
Lebanon and other locations in the Middle East.
For further information please contact:
* Mrs Hiba Chaarani, MEAMA
Executive Secretary
Ms Mirvat Abyad, MEAMA Coordinator
Abyad Medical Center
Azmi Street,
Tripoli-Lebanon
Tel : 00961-6-443685
Fax : 00961-6-443686
E-mail : amc_lb@yahoo.com
* A. Abyad, MD, MPH, MBA,
DBA, AGSF , AFCHSE
Lebanon
Tel : 00961-3-201901
E-mail : aabyad@cyberia.net.lb
Websites : www.meama.com
https://www.facebook.com/meamalb/
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