Course description

Course type

Basic and Advanced

Course description

How can healthcare professionals better support teenagers to manage and protect their future choices around parenthood? This workshop explores the many issues and challenges affecting adolescent fertility and reproductive health, from sociocultural to environmental, from clinical to genetic. Hot topics will include the role of digital culture on awareness and education, the latest advances (and ethics) in fertility preservation, and conservative management of sexually transmitted diseases. Real cases or clinical scenarios will feature prominently in the presentations.

Target audience

Reproductive medicine specialists and fertility clinicians; paediatric and adolescent specialists; reproductive biologists, endocrinologists, and geneticists; all researchers involved in reproductive science; psychologists, ethicists, legal scholars, policy and health professionals interested in adolescent reproduction.

Educational needs and expected educational outcomes

The course will enhance interdisciplinary thinking by integrating adolescent and reproductive medicine with psycho-socio-cultural aspects, biology, science, and bioethics.

Innovative aspects

Presentations will start with a real clinical case or scenario. Using interactive polling, the audience will be able to then vote on the best approach or management of the patient. Responses will be presented then followed by the lecture. At the end of the presentation, the scenario will be revisited to check for any shift in opinion then debated.

Educational methods

• Lectures
• Discussions
• Case presentations and discussions
  
  

Language

The official language of the course is English.