Organised by the Special Interest Group Safety and Quality in ART and the Task Force Developing Countries and Infertility
Course Coordinators: Petra De Sutter (Belgium) / Jan Kremer (The Netherlands)
Teaching aims & course description: The aims of this course are to discuss different aspects of patient-centeredness in its relation to assisted reproduction. The attendee should gain insight into the principles of patient-centered medicine, and understand some of its ethical aspects. The view point of the patient will be discussed and also some tools to measure patient-centredness and quality-of-life aspects of infertility and its treatment. Some examples of current projects and concepts in this field will be discussed. Finally fertility awareness will be addressed and its relationship with preconceptional counseling and care.
Target audience: Reproductive physicians, paramedicals, psychologists, counsellors
Chairs: Petra De Sutter (Belgium) and Jan Kremer (The Netherlands)
09:00 – 09:30
Patient expectations / Clare Lewis-Jones (United Kingdom)
09:30 – 09:45
Discussion
09:45 – 10:15
Patient centered, patient-friendly or high quality ART? / Guido Pennings (Belgium)
10:15 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30
"shared decision making" in ART / Annick Delvigne (Belgium)
11:30 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:15
How to measure patient centredness / Eline Dancet (Belgium) and Inge van Empel (The Netherlands)
12:15 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
Chairs: Willianne Nelen (The Netherlands) and Jan Gerris (Belgium)
13:30 – 14:00
Self-operated endovaginal telemonitoring / Jan Gerris (Belgium)
14:00 – 14:15
14:15 – 14:45
The digital IVF clinic / Jan Kremer (The Netherlands)
14:45 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
Tools for patient-centred care: FertiQoL and FertiSTAT / Jacky Boivin (United Kingdom)
16:00 - 16:15
16:15 – 16:45
Fertility awareness and preconceptional counselling and care / Petra De Sutter & Ilse Delbaere (Belgium)
16.45 – 17.00