7th WMS Satellite Teaching Course

CHUV Centre Hospitalier Universitaires Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.

As part of the 14th International Congress of the World Muscle Society, a satellite teaching course will be held on the 8th and 9th September 2009. Aimed at medical specialists and those in training this course hopes to improve the diagnostic competence of professionals dealing with patients who have neuromuscular diseases.

Although in isolation each neuromuscular disease can be thought of as rare, when taken as a whole the number of patients with NMD's is considerable. Diagnosis of NMD's takes skill and time, testing can be extensive and vary greatly in nature ranging from clinical examination to muscle and nerve biopsies and indeed talking to patients about their experiences.

The course in Lausanne provides a context to develop these skills through discussion of patients and review of biopsies. Feedback from the first five courses (held from 2003 onwards) was overwhelmingly positive.

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