CAFE-S NEWS

THE CAFE-S PROGRAM

The lack of adequate knowledge in mathematics often handicaps students in all scientific disciplines when they begin their studies. In partnership with HSeT, the Faculty of Science of the University of Geneva has created  CAFE-S, a novel program in mathematics to help new students to mend their gap.
This program  offers self-learning and self-assessment thanks to a cooperation agreement signed by the Faculty of Science with an international academic website, OMB+, hosted by the University of Aachen (Germany) that covers the math requirements in chemistry and biochemistry, biology, pharmaceutical sciences, earth and environmental sciences, as well as an online tutoring program to help future students fill in gaps in their math skills. The Faculty of Sciences of Geneva implemented a local face to face tutoring program that took place in September 2022 .

The CAFE-S program will gradually be extended to other disciplines, including in particular digital skills in 2023.

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DAY 1 CAFE-S 2022: THE LARGE AUDITORIUM IS FULL!

CAFE-S 2022: A GREAT SUCCESS

In the week before the start of the Fall 2022 semester, CAFÉ-S held a full four-day training camp in one of the large auditoriums of the Geneva School of Science. On the program, a refresher course in mathematics before starting a scientific bachelor degree at the University. Integrals, linear algebra, and matrices were on the menu for this week: all subjects that are not equally covered according to the study plans of the different institutions in Switzerland, France or other countries. The tutors were advanced math and physics students who had received special training from the University to mentor the students.
The training camp was a great success. Attendance was really high with more than a hundred students sitting on the benches of one of the large auditoriums of the Faculty of Science. Both tutors and students enjoyed the training camp very much – according to one of the participants, tutors “explain very well and are very open and friendly”. In fact, students felt that they gained significantly by attending the course!

MATH ARE INDEED IMPORTANT IN SCIENCES !

Preanalytical phase: online content

The chapters of the e-learning content are :

  • actors of the pre-analytical phase, hygiene and disinfection, waste disposal, occupational risks
  • capillary sampling, venous sampling (serum/plasma, anticoagulants, sampling order), centrifugation
  • other samples (blood cultures, urine, stool, punctures)
  • common pre-analytical actors, factors controllable/unavoidable
  • pre-analytical issues by branch (hematology, hemostasis, bacteriology, genetics, biological fluids, cyto and histopathology)

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The chapters of the e-learning content are :

  • actors of the pre-analytical phase, hygiene and disinfection, waste disposal, occupational risks
  • capillary sampling, venous sampling (serum/plasma, anticoagulants, sampling order), centrifugation
  • other samples (blood cultures, urine, stool, punctures)
  • common pre-analytical actors, factors controllable/unavoidable
  • preanalytical issues by branch (hematology, hemostasis, bactrriology, genetics, punctures, cyto and histopathology)

CAFE-S program

The Faculty of Science of the University of Geneva launches the CAFE-S program to optimize the orientation of future students.  Shortcomings in disciplines such as mathematics often handicap students when they begin their studies at the Faculty of Science. They can also lead them to make poor career choices. In collaboration with HSeT, a new device aims to improve this situation.

Future students are often unaware of the levels required when they begin their studies at the Faculty of Science. This is particularly true in secondary but eliminatory subjects (for example mathematics for a bachelor’s degree in biology). This situation leads to hesitation during the first year and the possible reorientation towards other studies. To remedy this situation, the CAFE-S program intends to provide the students with the tools and necessary framework to follow a program of self-assessment and self-study centered on mathematics. These are indeed essential for studies in chemistry and biochemistry, biology, pharmaceutical sciences, as well as earth and environmental sciences. The CAFE-S program will then be gradually extended to the other secondary disciplines of the bachelors offered by the Faculty, then to the main disciplines. Self-assessment and self-study in mathematics has been implemented thanks to a cooperation agreement signed by the Faculty of Science with an international academic website, OMB+, hosted by the University of Aachen. Chapel.

eTraining in Gerontology and Geriatrics

eTraining in Gerontology and Geriatrics

The Federation of Geriatric Education (FGE) of the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology (IAGG) created in 2017, has decided to go online, with a new program aimed at “training the future lead- ers in Gerontology Geriatrics”, called
“e-TRIGGER” for “e-TRaining In Gerontology and GERiatrics”
IAGG has commissioned HSeT to create a public web- site (https://iagg-fge.org/) and a training website for IAGG attendees and trainers.

Free monthly 3-hour online training sessions are organized by the IAGG FGE, with the contribu- tion of the Regional IAGG Academy in Geriatrics and Gerontology.
Each session consists of three one hour training including:

• an introduction by the President of the regional Academy
• a 20-minute keynote lecture by an expert in Gerontology or Geriatric medicine
• a 10-minute case report presented by a trainee (health care profes- sional or MD) participating in the program
• a 20-minute discussion between the experts and the trainees.
• a quiz to test the knowledge acquired by the trainees during the session, so that their acquisition of the topic studied in that session may be validated.
• an evaluation of the session by all the trainees and attendees

CAS/DAS Translational nephrology

CAS/DAS Translational nephrology

CAS/DAS Translational nephrology

Module 6  ‘Inflammation and Immunity
started on November 2021 with a kickoff session in Bern
and ending in March 2022

Participation: 22 MDs, MD-PhDs and PhDs

The speakers of the kickoff meeting were:

  • Uyen Huynh-Do (Bern University) on Pathophysiology of vasculitis,
  • Harald Seeger (Zurich University) on Complement in renal diseases
  • Pietro Cippà (Regional Hospital Lugano) on Basics of transplant immunology
  • Cédric Hirzel (Bern University) on Sars-Cov2 vaccination:

Principal and special aspects for immunocompromised individuals