Course description
Course type
Advanced
Course description
This one day Campus workshop provides a state-of-the-art update on the clinical, technological and societal aspects of fertility preservation for non-medical indications. The broad scope of this meeting addresses questions ranging from the number of oocytes needed, through optimal stimulation and vitrification protocols, to the personal, medical and socio-economic implications of these emerging practices.
Target audience
Reproductive endocrinologists and nurses, midwives and counsellors
Expected educational outcomes
- To assess the need for elective oocyte freezing among women themselves?
- How to optimally stimulate, freeze and use oocytes
- The ethics of postponing parenthood, both from a clinical and societal point of view
- How to best solve the problem of declining birth rates in the developed world
- Women's attitudes towards and knowledge of elective oocyte freezing
- Cost-effectiveness of elective oocyte freezing
Educational methods
Innovative aspects
ESHRE's first Campus meeting on the freezing of oocytes for anticipated gamete exhaustion -otherwise known as social egg freezing.
Language
The official language of the course is English.