The current covid-19 pandemic is bringing an important new perspective to the value and use of innovative solutions such as the virtual coach. As a result, many European projects have to focus on testing solutions which include a covid-19 like situation over the course of the next year. vCare is about to start running its three sets of “technical labs” in three different locations (Valencia, Vienna and Karlsruhe). Those labs will technically validate the architecture and the services related to the different use cases. They will be followed by the “Living Labs” which will test and refine the services in a controlled environment paving the way for the final testing of the prototype in real life environment.

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Higher Medical Education is meant to provide you solid theoretical and practical knowledge that will allow you to develop the professional skills needed in any kind of medical activity.

The continuous evaluation of the learning process from your perspective gives us the opportunity to monitor and have feedback on the teaching process.

Beginning with this academic year, U.M.F. “Carol Davila” offers you two anonymous e-satisfaction assessment questionnaires, which we recommend you fill in at the end of each subject you are going through.

Your access to them can only be done by logging in to the institutional email address (@ stud.old.umfcd.ro).

TEACHER EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5xSld1fZ2-GHXbFPU6-tq5AMZrVZQ6URHwjY2DaDBhQsQkg/viewform

LP TEACHER EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE

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Your Feedback is very important to us.

Prorector for Institutional Strategy, Academic Assessment and Quality

PROF. MD DANA GALIETA MINCĂ

Head of Digital Communication and IT

MD. ŞTEFAN BUSNATU  

In order to submit and implement the project, the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy asks the interested companies to become partners in the project by sending a letter of interest no later than the 25^th of September 2018 to the “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, at the following e-mail address: viorel.jinga@old.umfcd.ro

The purpose of the partnership is to find capacities in the private sector to grow competencies inside the research consortium, in order to develop and submit a project proposal according to its specific objectives.

The selection of the interested applicants will be based on the following criteria:

• research interests and competences (specific research CAEN for Romanian entities is mandatory)
• the companies will have to prove their experience in the medical thematic area (a minimum of 2 contracts in the last 3 years with organizations that are running activities in the Healthcare Sector)
• the project team will include a minimum of 2 team members with PhD in engineering and medical specialties and a minimum of 2 PhD students
• the team member will have to possess experience in bioinformatics and/or genetic projects
• they have to possess the skills and capacity to understand, collect, manage and analyze genetic epidemiology data
• they have to possess abilities to design and develop customized applications to develop the specific purposes of the project
• the team members that will participate in the project have to have a background that will match the objectives of the project.
• they must possess the commitment and capacity to finance a specific percentage of the associated project expenditures, which will be defined according to the activities carried out during the project and the requirements of financing body, as follows:
  • the maximum intensity of State aid for each economic agent should not exceed: 100% of the eligible costs for fundamental research; 50% of eligible costs for industrial research; 25% of the eligible costs for experimental development.

The project’s duration will be 48 months.

The project will be submitted under The EEA Grants CALL FOR program PROPOSALS 2018 – Collaborative Research Projects, with the submission deadline: 1^st of October 2018

Just as a final reminder, for more details and for enrolling in the selection, the interested private entities will submit an e-mail to the following e-mail address: viorel.jinga@old.umfcd.ro, no later than the 25^th of September, 2018.

“For the first edition of the IMSCB, we wish to offer students and young doctors another perspective of learning medicine. Therefore, we would like to consider multidisciplinarity the trademark of the congress.

The event, which will take place between the 6th and the 10th of December, will offer students the opportunity to participate in numerous conferences and hands-on workshops, as well as explore the capital city of Romania. Through the project entitled “Improvement of the internationalization process of the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy”, CNFIS-FDI-2017-0680, we had the opportunity to increase the notoriety of the University and welcome several international speakers to Bucharest.

We are honored to have them as guests in our Congress!”

Names such as Carol Davila and Nicolae Kretzulescu, the founders of the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy in 1857, Victor Babeş, Francis Rainer, Ciparhon, Thoma Ionescu, Nicolae Paulescu, Ion Cantacuzino or the 1974 Nobel Prize winner George Emil Palade, over the 160 years since the establishment of UMPCD, the medical scientific research and the Romanian medicine as a whole on the European and world map of value and professionalism. “We and the generations to come, have the duty to assume not only the remarkable achievements of our ancestors but also the efforts that they have made in their professional accomplishment and the Romanian medicine and, by appropriating and deepening their vast works, we can go in the same direction of the performance, the Romanian medical school” said the Rector of UMPCD Acad. I. Sinescu.

At the opening ceremony of the new academic year, which will take place on Monday, 2 October 2017, starting at 9:00, there will be present, together with the approximately 11,000 University students, the rector of UMPCD, Acad I.Sinescu and many other personalities from academia and universities. The event will take place at the “George Emil Palade” Amphitheater of the Faculty of  Medicine. “We are entering the academic year 2017-2018 with new perspectives aimed at positioning Romanian medicine on the map of performance and professionalism under the same impulse of the Hippocratic oath and at the same time, with new projects of great importance, including one of the most important for our University, the development of a new student campus integrated according to the model of the ones belonging to the major universities of medicine in the world “, added the Rector of UMPCD, Acad.I.Sinescu. He mentioned that “if you want the future to be credible, put the past into it,” said great American director and screenwriter Stanley Kubrick, and this memorable thought hopes to be a benchmark for the 2017-2018 promotion in his professional endowment all the more the name of the great professor Francis Rainer “.

Currently, through the four faculties: Medicine, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy and Midwifery and Nursing, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” educates 10,778 students in the cycle of undergraduate studies, of which 2,030 will be the first steps of the University. Today, the Faculty of Medicine has 7,199 students, Dental Medicine, 1,891, Pharmacy 1,064, and FMAM, 674 students. Moreover, over 1,600 teachers provide training for a considerable number of undergraduate, master, doctoral, postgraduate or continuing medical education students.

Currently, more than one third among the over 75s Europeans suffer physical impairments, caused by life-style diseases such as cardiovascular diseases. Suffering a stroke or heart attack has a deep impact on the daily lifes of the personally affected ones. After their first acute in-patient hospital stay, most patients rely on a longer, individually designed rehabilitation phase, especially when they return home. To reduce the risk of relapse and being able to live self-determined, an active and motivated change of affected patients´ lifestyle is necessary. Many affected people find that the adaption of dietary habits, smoking cessation or enhancement of more everyday physical activity, is very challenging.

With an international team of researchers under the leadership of experienced scientists of the TU Dresden, the EU-funded project “vCare” investigates how data from the living environment, appropriate health information and a regular interaction with the affected patients can be linked intelligently to design a personalised transition from rehabilitation into home environment.

The aim of this project is to improve the continuity of care, to prevent the disruption of monitoring in the home environment and to test future technologies in practice. Objective of “vCare” is therefore to develop a virtual coach, that assists, advises and motivates the patients according to his/her personal needs and skills.

The European Union supports the development and testing of the solution in four different European regions for the next four years with 4 million EUR.

Project title: Virtual Coaching Activities for Rehabilitation in Elderly (vCare)

Term: 01.09.2017-31.08.2021

Amount of funding:4.044 Mio €
Funding body: EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, funding programme “Personal coaching for well-being and care of people as the age”

Partner:

• Technische Universität Dresden, Chair of Wirtschaftsinformatik, esp. Systems Development (TUD), Germany
• Stiftung FZI, Forschungszentrum Informatik am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (FZI), Germany
• Casa di Cura Privata del Policlinico Spa (CCP), Milan, Italy
• Imaginary SRL (IMA), Milan, Italy
• AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT), Vienna, Austria
• TSB Real Time Location Systems SL (MYS), Valencia, Spain
• Servicio Vasco de Salud Osakidetza (OSA), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• Siveco Romania SA (SIV), Bucharest, Romania
• Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie “Carol Davila” din Bucuresti (UMFCD), Bucharest, Romania
• Aarhus Universitet (AU), Aarhus, Denmark
• Innovation Sprint (iSPRINT), Brussels, Belgium
• European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL), Brussels, Belgium

UMFCD Partner coordinator: Prof Crina Sinescu MD

E-Mail: crina.sinescu@old.umfcd.ro

UMFCD Press contact:Stefan Busnatu MD

E-Mail: stefan.busnatu@old.umfcd.ro

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769807.