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Table 4 Aims, discussions and actions developed by ENPM only partly realized in EAPM

From: The European Network on Psychosomatic Medicine (ENPM) – history and future directions

ENPM aims

EAPM, June 2016

Aims

 

• Bring together all psychosomatic and behavioural societies in the Psychosomatic field

• 4 psychosomatic societies

• 1 primary care society

• 5 consultation/liaison/psychiatric societies

120 individual members

• Coordinate European research activities sponsored by the European Union and influence decisions of national and European health care- and research politicians

• none

• Coordinate European exchange programs for students, postgraduates and other research fellows

• Partly; 2015 Academy for Psychosomatic Medicine was founded

• Discuss actual important psychosomatic questions

• few, many are missing

• Give support for developing psychosomatic national societies

• For the Romanian society only

Discussions at the homepage: http://www.enpm.eu

http://www.eapm.eu.com

• Links and contacts to all national and international Psychosomatic/Behavioural societies in Europe

• Yes, but very few to member societies

• Discussion platform for several questions in the psychosomatic field

• Open discussion platform not accepted, very few in the membership only section of the EAPM website

• ENPM coordinators and discussion partners at the platform

• 23 delegates, open discussion platform not accepted

Actions, that promote the efficacy and the integration:

 

• Proposals for Marie Curie grant of the EU, to promote the scientific process of co working in Europe and the eastern countries

• Not until now

• Common studies with EU-funding

• No proposal until now

• Combine common interests between national psychosomatic societies

• No activity to combine common interests in Psychosomatic Medicine

Proposed first steps for discussion and actions

 

• Psychosomatic training and diploma in Europe

• Partly, EAPM satellite symposium with ISBM and ICPM

• Academy for Psychosomatic Medicine

• No attempt for organization a psychosomatic diploma

• No attempt for e-learning activities within psychosomatic/behavioural societies

• Psychosomatic/Behavioural interventions in Coronary heart disease in Europe

• This working group is active

• European exchange programs for students, postgraduates and other research fellows

• ERASMUS program is still working

• Psychosomatic basic care in Europe

• An new attempt for basic care has focused on: pain and somatoform disorders in primary care