Continuing medical education credits for Madrid Congress 2025

3-5 July 2025, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

https://amwc2025.org/

Joint providership between the Armenian American Medical Society (AAMS) and Asociación Médica Amigos De Armenia (AMADeA)

 https://amicnow.org/201

The mission statement for the Congress is:The mission statement for the Congress is:
"Our mission at AMWC 2025 is to foster meaningful connections and collaboration between Armenian health professionals and international experts to drive tangible improvements in healthcare for Armenia. Through knowledge exchange, networking, and scientific discourse, we aim to translate cutting-edge medical insights into actionable strategies that enhance healthcare outcomes. By bringing together professionals from both the public and private sectors, we seek to create lasting partnerships and contribute to the sustainable development of Armenia's healthcare system, while also strengthening the global Armenian medical community."

Practice Gaps and Educational needs:

1. Armenian healthcare is in a state of flux.  There  are still the residual effects of the old Soviet system which resulted in a large (excessive) numbers of poorly trained physicians and dentists and other healthcare workers.  Practitioners are frequently underpaid and rely on direct payments from patients that are, on paper, payable by the national health service.
2. Many non-governmental organizations exist throughout Armenia and Diaspora.  While this stated intent of these NGOs has been to cooperate with each other and coordinate healthcare efforts, communication and collaboration between the groups is a constant challenge. There is potential for duplication of services (e.g. Group A sets up a dental clinic across the street from Group B).  The Armenian Medical International Committee (AMIC) was formed in 1990 as an umbrella organization to facilitate cooperation between geographically diverse Armenian healthcare associations, and now includes several specialty service lines including neurology, physical therapy, and others. Medical Congress is have kept us in contact over the years with medical Congresses in the Diaspora and in Armenia, alternating every 2 years.  The Madrid Congress will be the 14th Diasporan medical Congress complementing the 6 medical congresses that have been held in Armenia.
3. Armenia also faces some pressing issues to be addressed at this Congress.  These include the need for a comprehensive healthcare program, issues of disaster management and rehabilitation resulting from recent wars, and noncommunicable chronic diseases.

The Mission Statement describes connections, collaboration, exchange, networking, discourse, insights, strategies, bringing together, partnerships, and strengthening the global Armenian medical community. While new medical developments and specialty care topics are important and frequently the focus of medical conferences, they will be more useful when presented in a format that includes collaboration between the many NGOs and independent practitioners who will attend the Congress.  What we believe will drive change in Armenia are connection, cooperation, collaboration, coordination, (camaraderie, companionship, collegiality - communication, contribution ... a.k.a. "the C suite")

Designed to Change:

1. Improved collaboration between the NGOs attending the Congress.Improved collaboration between the NGOs attending the Congress.
2. Increased interaction between NGOs and the Armenian Ministries of Health and Education
3. Improvement of information flow between NGOs and the public at large-as opposed to simply meeting every 2 years

Format:

1. Plenary presentations and discussions
2. Roundtable discussions
3. Presentation and discussion of recommendations for public-health development
4. Introduction of a translation tool that adapts online translation to accommodate multiple languages (such as those spoken in Europe) see https://amicnow.org/248
5. Lectures presenting programs addressing acute healthcare needs in Armenia

Competencies:

• patient care
• communication, language skills
• supply chain management, inventory skills, bureaucracy navigation
• collaboration, teamwork
• informatics

Analyzes Change:

Each session of the Congress will include learning objectives (as a result of this activity, the physicians will be able to _____ ).  Moreover, we will query the participants about partnerships and collaborations forming as a result of the Congress, at the conclusiion of the Congress and again 4 weeks later.

Standards for commercial support:

AMADeA is seeking commercial support for this event.  Agreements have been drafted stipulating that the support is given in form of an unrestricted educational grant and there are no direct payments to faculty, participants or the venue.

No trade names or logos will be included in course materials.

AAMS uses a financial disclosure form which includes the definition of an ineligible company and asks for all financial disclosures with ineligible companies dating back 24 months.  This information is due by June 1st.  A spreadsheet with disclosure information for all in control of educational content is presented below.  

 Commendation Criteria:

Engages Teams  YES
Engages Patients/Public
Engages Students  YES
Advances data use  YES
Addresses population health  YES
Collaborates effectively  YES
Optimizes communication skills
Optimizes technical/procedural skills
Creates individualized learning plans
Utilizes support strategies  YES
Engages in research/scholarship  YES
Supports CPD for CME team
Demonstrates creativity/innovation  YES
Improves performance  YES
Improves healthcare quality
Improves patient/community health  YES