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EPA Academia Summer School: “Comorbidity between mental and physical disorders”
The 2nd EPA Academia Summer School will take place on 5-8 July 2012 in Strasbourg, France, under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr Thorbjørn Jagland. Strasbourg was selected to host this educational event not only because it is a capital of united Europe but also due to its symbolic significance for EPA: place of creation of the association and location of its headquarters.
The second Summer School will focus on the problem of comorbidity between mental and physical disorders and disabilities as its first edition, but with different sub-topics, since this issue has proved to be very important though less covered in psychiatric training curricula.
The Summer School aims at developing the participants’ ability to recognise comorbidity and provides theoretical and practical lessons on how to manage patients with both physical and mental disorders. This topic was selected in view of the growing prevalence of comorbidity and the difficulties in providing adequate care in an increasingly fragmented and overspecialized health care system.
The recognition and management of mental and physical illnesses occurring together is a major challenge for medicine of the 21st century. Comorbidity worsens the prognosis of both comorbid disorders unless a correct diagnosis is made early and treatment for both conditions provided simultaneously. The current trend of fragmentation of medicine makes the challenge of comorbidity even more serious. Therefore psychiatrists should be aware of the mutual relationship between physical and mental disorders and should be able to at least suspect the presence of a physical illness in their severely mentally ill patients.
Summer School Faculty 2012
The Summer School 2012 was composed of three main modules of teaching directed by:
Prof. Albert Diefenbacher (Germany)
Prof. Christoph Lauber (UK)
Dr. Henk Parmentier (UK)
For any question concerning the EPA Summer School, please write to summerschool@europsy.net