Medicine gets creative at the Spring Conference on General Internal Medicine

" Faced with today's challenges, it is essential to mobilise creative forces to provide the solutions we need". This is the "creative medicine" that Prof. Idris Guessous, President of the forthcoming Spring Congress of the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SSMIG) from 29 to 31 May in Basel. For the Head of the Department of Primary Care Medicine at Geneva University Hospitals and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva, creativity is essential if medicine is to remain attractive to young people and to society as a whole. This means renewing practices and approaches with " imagination and a touch of magic ", but also by passing on to future generations of general practitioners: " passing on the individual responsibility of each doctor and the collective responsibility of medicine towards patients, society and the environment ", explains the professor in an interview for the journal Primary & Hospital. in an interview for the journal Primary & Hospital Care.

The programme for this eagerly-awaited annual conference will include renowned speakers from Switzerland and the United States, including themed lectures on robot-assisted medicine, anthropology and integrative medicine.

Population epidemiology, a link between science and public health

For over thirty years, population epidemiology research in Geneva has been a precision scientific tool, deployed for the benefit of society as a whole. Thanks to digital technologies, epidemiological studies such as Health Bus and Specchio have been able to reinvent themselves. By using a secure online digital platform, they create a more direct link between the research teams and the study participants. But they also have the advantage of being able to adapt more quickly to changing lifestyles and contemporary public health issues. These digital observatories make it possible to assess and monitor the population's state of health at local level and over time, while highlighting social, demographic and geographical disparities within the canton's population.

Co-investigator of the Bus Santé and Specchio studies, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the UNIGE and Head of the Department of Primary Care Medicine and the Innovation Centre at the HUG, Prof. Guessous will be chairing the Spring Congress of the SSMIG.

^8th Spring Congress of the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine
" Creative medicine: renew and transmit ".
29 to 31 May 2024- Congress Center Basel
To find out more, click here: interview with Pr. Guessous
Overview of the programme