by George Sycallides, Director, Communications Office

Last August, the Medical School’s Mobile Clinic had the chance to travel… to Switzerland.  The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) had accepted the abstract for a mounted poster presentation titled ‘Mobile Clinic: Connecting medical students and the community’ for its international conference held in Basel, Switzerland between 25 and 29 August 2018.  The abstract was submitted by four members of the Medical School – two medical students, Ioannis Balanos and William Verbist, and two staff-members, Professor Peter McCrorie and Mr George Sycallides.

The two students, Ioannis and William, travelled to Basel to present the poster.

Ioannis Balanos

Representing the University of Nicosia Mobile Clinic at the AMEE conference in Basel, Switzerland was an amazing experience. Basel itself is a beautiful city and it set a very welcoming scene. At the conference, we were surrounded by many medical professionals from around the world taking part in countless other projects and research in medical education.

I felt very lucky to have this opportunity to present and represent the mobile clinic in Switzerland, especially as the Mobile Clinic Club President. While doing so, maybe we inspired other medical schools for such an initiative as well.”