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COURSE 3
Sunday, 14 June I Room: Guimarães (FIL - Pavilion 3)
What a clinical embryologist should know about the daily practice Organised by the Special Interest Group Embryology
COURSE COORDINATORS: Maria José de los Santos (Spain), Kersti Lundin (Sweden), Carlos Plancha (Portugal), Giovanni Cottichio (Italy), Sophie Debrock (Belgium), Susanna Apter (Finland)
COURSE DESCRIPTION: We have been observers of the rapid development in the field of Assisted Reproduction. Many new technologies are coming up claiming to improve the clinical success rates in IVF. Despite all the emerging technologies, it is fundamental not to lose the perspective of the basic factors that will maintain excellence in IVF laboratories.
Working in IVF requires a multidisciplinary expertise that goes from physico-chemistry aspects of the culture conditions to maintain the maximal embryo viability, to statistics and proper scientific reading that will eventually allow having a critical evaluation of scientific work before implementing any new technology or clinical strategy in the IVF daily practice.
TARGET AUDIENCE: Embryologists, andrologists, IVF laboratory technicians and clinicians working in reproductive medicine and science
EDUCATIONAL NEEDS:
• To get the knowledge of the in vivo environment and metabolic requirements of human gametes and embryos in order to understand and maintain excellent ex vivo culture conditions in our IVF laboratories.
• To have a critical assessment of the clinical and laboratory outcomes by means of the utilization of key performance indicators
• To learn to read, understand, and assess clinical and scientific before implementing new strategies in the laboratory
• At the end of this course, participants should be able to have a comprehensive view of key and basic factors leading
to excellence in the IVF clinical practice.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES: At the end of this course, participants should be able to have a comprehensive view of key and basic factors leading to excellence in clinical practice.
COURSE PROGRAMME
SESSION 1: PHYSICO-CHEMISTRY FOR CLINICAL EMBRYOLOGIST Chairmen: Sophie Debrock (Belgium) and Maria Jose De Los Santos (Spain)
09:00 - 09:30 09:30 - 09:45 09:45 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00
Controlling the in vitro environment: How/what to assess? – Ronny Janssens (Belgium) Discussion
Learning from the in vivo environment to meet the changing metabolic demands of the embryo – Roger Sturmey (United Kingdom)
Discussion Coffee break
SESSION 2: GAMETE AND EMBRYO METABOLISM
Chairmen: Giovanni Coticchio (Italy) and Susanna Jamina Apter (Sweden)
11:00 - 11:30 11:30 - 11:45 11:45 - 12:15
12:15 - 12:30 12:30 - 13:30
Sperm and oocyte metabolic demands – Helen M. Picton (United Kingdom) Discussion
The impact of the in vitro environment on embryonic and long term health – Daniel Brison (United Kingdom)
Discussion
Lunch break
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