The first dates for our LOAC and Ethics courses in 2017 have been confirmed. Click on the course to get more details.
We will add the dates of other regional courses as they become available on our agenda page.

Please note that we were able to reduce the course fee for the LOAC and MME Courses in Spiez.

04.05.2017 - 06.05.2017		7th ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics Forum Lilienberg, Ermatingen (CH) More information on program and registration here.
20.08.2017 - 24.08.2017		5th ICMM Course on Military Medical Ethics in Times of Armed Conflict Spiez, Switzerland Download Course Announcement and registration form
20.08.2017 - 24.08.2017		19th ICMM Reference Course on the Law of Armed Conflict Spiez, Switzerland Download Course Announcement and registration form

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Workshop Program

The program for our upcoming 7th ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics is now available. You can download it here → here. The main focus of the workshop is

End-of-life care – ethical issues in military and humanitarian missions

It will take place from 4-6 May 2017 at the Forum Lilienberg in Ermatingen/ Switzerland.

Registration for the workshop

Registration for participants is now also open. Please download the registration form a → here. Places are limited, so be sure to register early.

Find more information on our → workshop subpage

We are delighted to announce the publication of an Editorial entitled

When childhood ends: estimating the age of young people

The editorial has been published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and can be accessed via the following link:
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.h6699?ijkey=JOdmIXWLlKh4PEz&keytype=ref

In early 2014, the ICMM Center of Reference for Education on IHL and Ethics was contacted by COMEDS and asked to provide an ethical analysis of the issues related to medical age estimation procedures. During the 4th ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics held at Forum Lilienberg in April 2014, a first assessment of the topic was done with invited experts. Further research was then conducted within the ICMM Center of Reference, and a report was presented to COMEDS in November 2014.

Our current academic editorial sums up the results of our research undertaken to answer the initial COMEDS’ request and gives you an overview on the related ethical questions.

Please find information about further publications of the ICMM Center of Reference at publications.melac.ch/

Recently, a number of articles have been published that have been authored or co-authored by members and collaborators of the ICMM Center of Reference for Education on IHL and Ethics.

• A short piece to the EuroISME-Blog entitled "Protection of Health Care During Conflict. A neglected moral imperative" was contributed by Daniel Messelken. Read the full article here.
• The 2015-01 issue of the E-Journal Ethics and Armed Forces on the topic "Saving the Enemy? Military Medical Personnel under Fire" was strongly supported by the ICMM RefC with contributions from Daniel Messelken, Cord von Einem, and Bernhard Koch who all teach in ICMM Courses.
  You can download the full issue here.
  The contribution by Daniel Messelken was also republished in the ICMM's International Review of the Armed Forces Medical Services, Vol. 88, Nr. 3, pp. 56-59.
  Download a PDF of the IRAFMS reprint here.
• A "Perspectives" piece in the WHO-Bulletin on the topic "Counterterrorism policies and practices: health and values at stake".
  Co-authored by D. Messelken. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.144816

Members of the ICMM Center of Reference were interviewed on two occasions.

• For a contribution in the German Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Cord von Einem and Daniel Messelken were interviewed by Nina Ospelt for an article with the title "Ärzte bei der Bundeswehr: Dienst auf Station und im Feldlazarett".
• Daniel Messelken was interviewed for the "Expert Corner" in the ICRC's Health Care in Danger Programme Newsletter (LINK)