MHB students at DGN congress: Neurology of tomorrow

Neuruppin, 5 December 2024

Students of the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB) took part in this year’s meeting of the DGN, the German Association of Neurologists (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie) in Berlin from 6 to 9 November. The focus was on perspectives shared by neurology and immunology. Currently the largest medical society in Europe and the second largest worldwide with almost 13,000 members, the DGN has hosted successful annual meetings for many years. Addressing experienced specialists and young scientists alike, they promote knowledge transfer and advances in neurology.

Medical students of the MHB have repeatedly attended. Participants this year were Dzenita Hasanbasic (9^th semester), Franziska Schulze (5^th semester) and Kris Spohler (3^rd semester). They represented their university as well as the student neurology working group “Happy Brain”. This team was founded in the winter term 2020/2021, with Dzenita Hasanbasic as a co-founder, and forms part of the DGN university network of Young Neurologists. The objective is to improve knowledge sharing and give insights into a dynamic and future-oriented discipline.  

Highlights of the meeting, according to Kris Spohler, were not only lectures and information on latest research findings but also Skills Labs to expand manual skills and clinical knowhow on topics such as brainstem and topodiagnosis, electrophysiology and neurosonography. Electrophysiology is a diagnostic method in neurology to assess electrical nerve activity and muscle excitability. Neurosonography serves to make peripheral nerves visible via ultrasound and check them for damage. The event once again underlined the highly diverse and complex nature of diagnostics in neurology.