Develop the concept of cross-Mediterranean Virtual Medical University in order to establish a permanent medical and scientific link with the following expected benefits :

• Universities of the South will exchange high level medical knowledge with the universities of the North.

• These Universities of South will be the reference for their countries in their topics of excellence.

• National networks will improve regional health policies and will permit to weight on the emigration flow.

The main partners involved in the EVMU are named as following : Charité Hospital / Berlin / Germany, ANDS (Ministère de la Santé) / Algiers / Algeria, Aïn Shams University / Cairo / Egypt, MOHP (Egyptian ministry of Health and population) / Egypt, CICE (Centre international de Chirurgie Endoscopique / Clermont-Ferrand / France, SEPELM / UMVF / France, IsMeTT / Palermo / Italy, University of Casablanca / Morocco, University ISTEM / Istanbul / Turkey.

The main specialities and areas of teaching will be :

	Gynaecology Obstetrics
	Reproductive Medicine.
	Surgical techniques, especially minimally invasive surgery (endoscopy, laparoscopy,etc...)
	Interventional radiology
	Infection diseases and vaccination.
	Teaching on Transplantation and Liver diseases management.
	Neurology.
	Spreading the use of modern technologies in tumour diagnostics and therapy.

• Initial teaching for medical students

• Continuous medical training / High quality education of medical doctors in the participating countries.

Cooperation with other projects, especially in the EUMEDIS, programme, like EMPHIS (infectious diseases), BURNET (treatment of burns), AVICENNA.

Interconnect the work of WP2 with existing projects on medical E-learning, for example the French Medical Virtual University (Université Médicale Virtuelle Francophone) via SEPELM.

• Definition and planning of the teaching programme: choice of the high priority topics and classification according to the various partners.

• Data collection and educational contents production :
Two kinds of pedagogical contents relevant to the EMISPHER platform : Internet pedagogical contents with texts, slides and short videos and further “satellite contents” : video programmes (live or recorded) as surgical operations, lectures, slides comments, …

• Definition of an editorial policy :

Respect the charter of the Health On the Net : http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html : i.e. code of conduct for medical and health web sites.

Insure a best quality of the pedagogical contents (experts contents), a next editorial committee will take place in EMISPHER web site.

Propose a further video programme of the Internet contents

Interactivity : each expert responsible of his contents shall manage the interactivity fathered by his own web pages (synchronous or asynchronous interactivity).

Access to the contents : each partner choices his users (students, universitary hospital staff, GPs and specialists or free access)

• Design of the medical e-learning interface and services :
- Browser by key-words.

- Interactivity : speeches with experts to be scheduled according to the next e-learning sessions.

- Other services :

• Organisation of medical e-learning sessions and dissemination workshops : NEXT COMING

The use of modern imaging technologies, tele-medicine, virtual operation planning, etc. especially in tumour diagnostics and therapy creates the need for added competence of medical personnel.

Data collected from real patients ( e.g. from laparoscopy, endoscopy, radiology, biopsy, etc. ) at the Clinic for Surgery and Surgerical Oncology, the Clinic for Radiology and the institute for Pathology, among others, of the Charité University Hospital can be made available to students of medicine as teaching material.