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In 2013, the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine (HITM) was officially inaugurated as a branch of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf under the direction of Professor Dieter Häussinger. The HITM serves as a place of scientific medical knowledge transfer, postgraduate medical training, and of conducting scientific projects relating to tropical medicine and infectious diseases. The publication relates the past activities of the institute, its history, and perspectives. Moreover, it permits a look behind the scenes during the construction of the institute in Africa and describes the living conditions and impressions of the staff. Dieter Häussinger, Director of the HITM and the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases and Professor of Internal Medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, focuses on the areas of clinical and experimental hepatology and gastroenterology, he is committed to the expansion and further development of the field of infectious diseases. He encouraged the certification of his department as a Center of Infectious Diseases, the addition of a tropical medicine and an infectious diseases outpatient clinic, the building of the Liver and Infectious Diseases Center, which houses the only treatment unit in North Rhine-Westphalia for highly infectious patients, and the founding of the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine.

Tropical Medicine, Infection Medicine, Medical Faculty of Adama Science and Technology University, Asella Teaching Hospital, Etiology of Chronic Liver Disease, Chronic Liver Diseases, Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière En Réseau, ESTHER-Initiative. --- chronic liver diseases. --- infectiology. --- infectious diseases. --- research in high prevalence country. --- tropical medicine. --- MEDICAL / General.

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The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine (EURACT) is the third paper in a row following the European Definition of General Practice/Family Medicine (WONCA Europe) in 2002 which identified 6 core competencies and 11 abilities every general practitioner (GP) should master, and the EURACT Educational Agenda in 2005 which provided a framework to teach the core competencies by setting learning aims and monitoring their achievement. Performance (in contrast to competence) is understood as the level of actual performance in clinical care and communication with patients in daily practice. Small groups of EURACT Council members from 40 European countries have discussed and developed EUPA since 2007. EUPA is a general, uniform and basic agenda of performance elements every GP masters in daily practice, applicable and adaptable to different countries with different systems. It deals with the process and result of actual work in daily practice, not with a teaching/learning situation. EUPA discusses in depth the psychometrics and edumetrics of performance assessment. Case vignettes of abilities in GPs' daily practice illustrate performance and its assessment in every chapter. Examples of common assessment tools are workplace-based assessment by a peer, feedback from patients or staff and audit of medical records. EUPA can help to shape various performance assessment activities held locally in general practice/family medicine, e. g. in continuing professional development cycles, re-certification/re-accreditation/licensing procedures, peer hospitation programmes and practice audit programmes in quality management. It can give orientation for self-assessment for reflective practitioners in their continuing professional development. The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) encourages general practitioners to initialize performance agendas adapted to their national health system to further strengthen the role of general practice/family medicine in their country.

MEDICAL / General. --- Adam Windak. --- Alma Eir Svavarsdottir. --- Bernard Gay. --- Bernhard Rindlisbacher. --- CBD. --- COT. --- Cees P. M. Van der Vleuten. --- Dolores Forés. --- EURACT. --- Egle Zebiene. --- Elena Frolova. --- Eva Jurgova. --- Filipe Gomes. --- Francesco Carelli. --- George Spatharakis. --- Georgi Ivanov. --- Givi Javashvili. --- Howard Tandeter. --- Janko Kersnik. --- Jean-Marie Degryse. --- Llukan Rrumbullaku. --- Mario R. Sammut. --- Markku Timonen. --- Maryna Oliynik. --- Mette Brekke. --- Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic. --- Monica Lindh. --- Natalia Zarbailov. --- Natasa Pilipovic Broceta. --- Okay Basak. --- Owen Clarke. --- Paula Vainiomäki. --- Peter Vajer. --- Phil Phylaktou. --- Razvan Miftode. --- Roar Maagaard. --- Roger Price. --- Ruth Kalda. --- Sandra Gintere. --- Smiljka Radic. --- Valéry Dory. --- WPBA. --- Wolfgang Spiegel. --- Yvonne van Leeuwen. --- Zalika Klemenc-Ketis. --- appraisal. --- blueprint. --- edumetrics. --- holistic approach. --- psychometrics. --- simulated patient.