Dear Friend, Dear Trainee in Obstetrics and Gynecology!

NFYOG (The Nordic Federation of Young Obstetricians and Gynecologists) and the Finnish trainees in Obstetrics and Gynecology (EGO) invite You to the trainee program in the NFOG2004 congress in Helsinki June 2004.

There will be a NFYOG precongress symposium concerning education in the future and an own social event just for trainees organized by EGO.

The program:  

Saturday 12.6.          Precongress symposium

”Improving education”

Marina Congress Center, Helsinki

13:00 – 14:00           Lunch/coffee. Registration.

14:00 – 14:15           Introduction.

- Riikka Aaltonen, chairp. NFYOG

14:15 – 15:00           How to create good education?

“ Specialist training is a challenge to the trainee, the trainer and the or­ganization. How can we improve it? Danish curricu­lum has been newly revised, what are the ideas behind the changes?”

- Jette Led Sørensen, Educational coordinator, H:S Rigshospitalet, Denmark

15:00 – 16:00           Will EU working hours directive kill training?

“Today trainees' working hours in the Nordic countries vary consid­erably. How does it affect training? How will the situa­tion change in the future?”

- Nina Tiainen, president, PWG, Finland

16:00 -                   Future of NFYOG.

                             “What are the future goals or our activities?”

                                   - General discussion

Sunday 13.6.            

17:30                         Evening event for trainees: Traditional Finnish sauna, dinner

                             Sponsored by Novo Nordisk

The deadline for registration is April 30 th . The registration is by e-mail to each country's contact person. In addition to your name and e-mail, please state if you want to participate in the pre-congress symposium or the evening event or both. Both the events are free of charge.

The contact persons are:

Denmark :                Marie Søgaard           mariesoegaard@dadlnet.dk

Finland :                   Sari Silventoinen       sari.silventoinen@fimnet.fi

Norway :                 Birgitte Kahrs           birgitte.kahrs@stolav.no

Sweden :                 Sara Törnblom          sara.tornblom@spray.se

Non-Nordic countries :

Riikka Aaltonen         riikka.aaltonen@pp.inet.fi

We wish you most welcome to early summer Helsinki in June and hope you will participate in the trainee program!

Riikka Aaltonen                       Sari Silventoinen

Chairperson, NFYOG                 Chairperson, EGO