The European Academy of Neurology (EAN) offers training for 60 neurologists through the EAN Autumn School program since 2018.  The school is offering the opportunity for attendees to increase their knowledge of clinical neurology.

Autumn School content and details:

The program consists of plenary sessions in the morning and hands-on/interactive or case-based sessions in the afternoons.

Organizers: The European Academy of Neurology (EAN)

Location:  Loutraki, Greece

Number of participants: 60

Number of participants per course: 20

Program date: October 22-26, 2020

Benefits:

EAN is covering the following expenses:

• Accommodation
• Tuition
• Board
• Program

program content:

• STIFFNESS
  • approaching a patient with stiffness (signs, localization…)
  • Acute onset (stiff neck, meningitis, etc.)
  • Delayed onset/chronic stiffness (stiff person syndrome, parkinsonism..)
  • Cases with spastic paraplegia
  • Patient with stiff person syndrome
  • Cases of infectious diseases
• EYE MOVEMENT DISORDERS
  • Functional anatomy and bedside examination of the ocular motor system: a window to look into the brainstem and cerebellum
  • Central ocular motor disorders (cerebellar ocular motor disorders, Wernicke, Whipple)
  • Peripheral ocular motor disorders (eye muscle palsies, ocular myasthenia,…)
  • Hands-on-Course: How to examine the ocular motor system
  • Patients with central ocular motor disorders (cortex, brainstem, cerebellum movements disorders
  • case presentation of peripheral ocular motor disorders
• MUSCLE WEAKNESS
  • Lesion topography (from the upper motor neuron to muscle)
  • Neuronal origin of Muscle Weakness (upper motor neuron syndrome (UMN), including also cranial nerves)
  • Junction/Muscular origin of Muscle Weakness (Myasthenia Gravis, Myopathies, including eyes, diplopia, ptosis)
  • Case presentations of neurogenic weakness
  •  Patient with myopathy
  • Case presentations of muscular dystrophy or ALS

Who is eligible for EAN Autumn School?

• Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) members from The European Academy of Neurology (EAN) who have more than two years of clinical training
• RRFS members from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauretania, Morocco, Nepal, Palestine, Tunisia, Syria and HINARI Group A countries (Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, BurundiCambodia, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Moldova, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe)are welcome to apply.
• Full members of within five years after completion of neurology training
• Applicants from low and lower-middle-income countries can apply to travel grants. Provide An intent letter of why the applicant wants to participate and why the grant is needed.

Required documents

EAN Autumn school application requires the following documents:

• Application form
• CV form
• Proof of two years of clinical experience (from supervisor or head of the department)
• Copy of valid passport

How to apply?

All applicants should be Full members or RRFS members* at the time of application. If you are not a member and want to participate in this program, you should first apply for membership. Therefore, Start your membership application four weeks before the deadline.

Applicants should submit their application materials to Ms. Magda Dohnalova via email: grants@ean.org.