Mustapha El Alaoui Faris, MD
By Mustapha El Alaoui Faris, MD
The Moroccan Society of Neurology had the recent privilege of using Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology through the partnership between the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the World Federation of Neurology (WFN).
The first working session on May 4, 2016, during the National Congress of Neurology in Marrakech, Morocco, used the Continuum issue on Epilepsy. A second session was held Sept. 24, 2016, using the Dementia and Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Disorders issues. The next session will be Dec. 17, 2016, in Rabat, Morocco, and will involve the Continuum issues on Movement Disorders and Neuroimaging.
For organizing the Continuum sessions, the Moroccan Society of Neurology has established the following rules:
- Participation in the Continuum program is open to neurologists and to the third- and fourth-year residents.
- The articles from Continuum are sent by email to each of the participants.
- Each participant must read the entire Continuum issue and complete the questionnaires of the Post-Reading Assessment and the Patient Management problem
- Since Moroccan neurologists come from different cities in the country, it was decided to organize quarterly sessions with about 30 participants at each session.
- Each session will be devoted to two Continuum Each session lasts a day, and each Continuum issue is studied for four hours. The first two hours are devoted to discussing the main items, and the following two hours to correct questionnaires of the Post-Reading Assessment and the Patient-Management Problem.
Moroccan neurologists take part in the Sept. 24, 2016, Continuum session in Rabat.
Young neurologists and more senior neurologists were equally pleased to share this experience in a studious, relaxed atmosphere. Moroccan neurologists enjoyed the didactic nature of the Continuum program, the personal reflections of various authors of Continuum’s articles in their fields of interest, and the clinical case studies. They would like to thank the staffs of the AAN and the WFN for allowing the use of this excellent educational document and especially to thank Steven L. Lewis, MD, editor-in-chief of Continuum, and Helen Gallagher, WFN CME program manager, for their efforts.
I invite neurologists worldwide to enjoy the Continuum program, an excellent educational tool for continuing education in neurology, thanks to the efforts of the AAN and the WFN.
