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IMED COMPETITIONS

CLINICAL MIND COMPETITION

AUTHOR
DAVID GIL

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The awaited moment is upon us, the Clinical Mind Competition has begun. A staple of the iMed Conference , this
competition is going to test its participants in their own field, stretching their diagnostic dexterity by solving a real-life
clinical case.
The contestants will participate in doubles and try to answer correctly to maximum amount of questions in a 20-30
multiple choice test using a televoting. Bearing in mind the 30-40 seconds the participants will have to block an answer,
this scenario truly tests the wits and clinical knowledge under pressure.
In the end, the winning team (of 2 participants) will get the opportunity to go on an internship in an international
cooperation mission in Africa and the chance to participate in the project “Saúde para Todos” with medical teams
from Instituto Marquês Valle Flôr. The winning teams will receive plane tickets, housing, money and a unique chance
to practice medicine in a very different context that what they are used to face. The first runner-up will get to choose
between a research and clinical internship at Champalimaud Foundation, in the field of Haemato-Oncology, or a one-
year subscription of Osmosis. The second runner-up will be awarded the remaining prize.
Similarly to previous editions, the clinical case will be provided and presented by Lisa Sanders, MD, the scientific
mind behind Dr. House clinical puzzles, and before that, by Dr. Sanders column for the New York times – Diagnosis –
where she presented interesting and mind-boggling clinical cases.
Regarding Dr. Sanders, her path began not with medicine, but with Journalism, taking an English major in college
and continuing through television and journalism for 14 years. Nonetheless, her never dying for the art of Medicine
compelled her to enrol in Yale Medical School at 36 years old. Dr Sanders is now a teacher at the latter and has a
specialization in internal medicine. In 2010 published a book titled Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the
Art of Diagnosis. In 2019, Dr. Sanders also published another book, entitled Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical
Mysteries, consisting of a compilation of more than 50 stories from her column. Currently she is collaborating with the
New York Times on an 8-hour documentary series on the process of diagnosis, currently available on Netflix.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
SAÚDE PARA TODOS:

Coordinated by Associação Marquês
de Valle Flor in partnership with São
Tomé e Príncipe’s Ministry of Health, this
project was founded in the year of 1988.
Its purpose is to improve and provide bet-
ter healthcare conditions in the island na-
tion. This difficult aim is pursued through
investment in making healthcare more
accessible to all with the training of local
professionals and a multitude of other
similar measures. Saúde para Todos has
now managed to better fulfil the needs
of the people it aims to serve, with a lot
of completed projects in the fields of pri-
mary care, public health, specialized med-
icine and telemedicine.

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