Xth International Scientific Summer School in Poland 2013

We are pleased to informed that Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw was a host for the Xth Scientific Summer School 2013 organized in Wolka Smolana, at June, 04-09. 2013, under the patronage of the Journal of Electrocardiology, the Anatolian Journal of Cardiology, the Croatian Medical Journal and Section of Noninvasive Electrocardiology and Telemedicine of Polish Cardiac Society. The partners of this Workshop was “PZU” and “Tamal sp. z o.o.”. The international faculty were represented by: Ljuba Bacharova (Slovakia), Aleksandra Misak (Croatia), Mustafa Inan (Turkey), Gulmira Kudaiberdieva (Turkey), Lubica Palkovicova (Slovakia), Adam Stanczyk (Poland – WIM) under the scientific mentoring of Galen Wagner (USA). Among the participants in Scientific Summer School 2013 there were researchers from six countries including medical doctors from our Institute (in alphabetical order): Agata Galas, Katarzyna Halas, Agnieszka Jagus-Jamioła, Pawel Krzesinski, Kalina Niedolaz, Katarzyna Piotrowicz, Małgorzata Wojdat.

The Summer School provides an interdisciplinary international environment for training skills required for preparing research study protocols, scientific manuscript and international collaboration based on Research Practicum of the Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. The course consisted of four workshops. During four days, the participants were divided into four teams, which experienced a process of elaborating and presenting common research project. This process included defining a research topic of common interest, selecting an adequate study design, selecting an adequate method of data collection, analysis and interpretation, and developing a feasible study plan and timeline for the project, with final aim of a research paper’s preparation. It combined plenary and small group discussions, project development and class presentation, and discussion with representatives of medical scientific journals.

During the workshop the following research projects were prepared and presented at the last day:

1) “Effect of CoQ supplementation on prevalence of myopathies in patients taking atorvastatin” - MARIJa Team: Agata Galas – Poland - WIM, Marta Jurdziak – Poland, Jana Pribojova - Slovakia, Ruslan Sadabaev - Kyrgizstan, Iveta Waczulikova - Slovakia
2) “Endothelial function in DM t2 patients with bad sleep quality” - Anonymous Team: Alpay Aribas – Turkey, Agnieszka Jagus – Jamiola – Poland – WIM, Kalina Niedolaz – Poland – WIM, Peter Slezak – Slovakia
3) “GAlectin-3 relation to Left ventricular dysfunction development in patients treated with Anthracyclines” - GALA Team: Lucia Banovska - Slovakia, Maria Baturova - Russia, Dalia Gerviene – Lithuania, Pawel Krzesinski – Poland – WIM, Malgorzata Wojdat – Poland – WIM
4) “Prevalence of ventricular arrhythmia in young people with active celiac disease” - Slavonic Team: Maria Bartusova – Slovakia, Katarzyna Halas – Poland – WIM, Katarzyna Piotrowicz – Poland – WIM, Aleksei Savelev – Russia.

Besides of the project preparation, during the workshop the other important skills were developed including communication skills, proper argumentation, negotiation and critical appraisal. The participants were obligated to form international research team and establish enjoyable cross discipline/cross cultural collaboration with detailed defining of their individual role as a team member. The last, but not the least aim of the workshop was to encourage young researchers to public presentation of their study results and finally to publish scientific papers.
During the consecutive days it was really enjoyable to observe a development of an individual participants into all presented above skills. As a conclusion of the Xth Scientific Summer School we would like to cite one of participant: “there were no unnecessary moments”.

Acknowledgments:
We would like to thank to Mrs Ewelina Kowal for her helping in an organizing process of the workshop.

Tekst: dr n. med. Adam Stańczyk
Foto: "A. Stanczyk and participants"