The Live Pulmonary Endoscopy sessions at last year’s International Congress in Amsterdam have received an International and European Association Award for the ‘Best Use of Event Technology’ at the ERS International Congress
The award, which was announced on 11 April at a ceremony in Berlin, commends the best use of technology at an event to improve and add value to the experience of delegates.
In September last year, live cutting-edge medical procedures were transmitted across four sessions to a large auditorium room for delegates to view in real-time. The doctors performing the procedures could interact directly with the audience in the auditorium room, and explain the procedure as they were doing it.
The audience could also submit their questions via their mobile devices to chairs of the sessions. Chairs then selected the most frequent and interesting questions and asked them to the doctor performing the procedure.
Professor Jouke Annema, lead member of the faculty organising the ERS Live Endoscopy session, commented: “We are delighted that the sessions held at the ERS International Congress have been recognised with this international award/have been shortlisted for this international award. Live demonstrations are a crucial method of educating an audience in a complex procedure and the true success of this session was the way in which various different technologies were utilised to improve the experience for all involved. We were delighted with the positive feedback received from delegates and I would like to extend my thanks to all the fantastic people involved who made this event the success it was.”
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Interactive modules based on this session will be available on our e-learning site next week.