Physical medicine and rehabilitation—a relevant interdisciplinary speciality

Interdisciplinary team working in physical and rehabilitation medicine.

Effective team working plays a crucial role in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM). As part of its role of optimizing and harmonizing clinical practice across Europe, the Professional Practice Committee of Union of European Medical Specialists (UEMS) Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) Section reviewed patterns of team working and debated recommendations for good practice at a mee...

Speciality status for intensive care medicine?

Intensive care medicine (ICM) originates in response to the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952. Long-term mechanical ventilation was then introduced as a treatment, and a broad spectrum of additional intensive care became necessary. This successful experience stimulated others in various countries and specialities. Many pioneers in this early period were anaesthesiologists (such as Lassen and...

Interdisciplinary family medicine.

Sleep medicine - prevalent and relevant.

There is an increasing awareness of different sleep disorders among the public and healthcare professionals, and the impact they can have on an individual. This conference was organised jointly with the British Thoracic Society to discuss some of these pertinent conditions, issues around driving and around service planning to accommodate an increasing specialty.

MODELS Data Assimilation ( Physical / Interdisciplinary )

Data assimilation is a novel, versatile methodology for estimating oceanic variables. The estimation of a quantity of interest via data assimilation involves the combination of observational data with the underlying dynamical principles governing the system under observation. The melding of data and dynamics is a powerful methodology which makes possible efRcient, accurate, and realistic estima...