“IMHA has organized workshops on a large variation of themes since the very beginning. The purpose of the IMHA workshops is to come to a position paper or report that can be seen as IMHAs official view on an important topic in maritime medicine”.
IMHA Workshop in Southampton
In February IMHA (International Maritime Health Association) organised a workshop to discuss Appendix E of the IMO/ILO Guidelines on the Medical Examination of Seafarers and the need for review of the medical guidelines. 17 participants from 11 countries met at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in Southampton for three days of debate following the survey that was circulated over recent months. We look forward to sharing our work at ISMH17 in June.
IMHA Workshop in Esbjerg
In November 2024 IMHA organised a workshop to discuss the training of TMAS doctors. The event was hosted by Radio Medical Denmark and sponsored by the Seafarers’ Trust. It was attended by representatives of TMAS in 8 countries along with the shipping industry and seafarers. A lot of lively discussion and some invaluable input from public and private providers led to a suggested curriculum for such training. More work to be done but a good first step to try and ensure a high standard to remote medical advice is given to our seafarers. Keep an eye out for the full report to be published in International Maritime Health.
Thanks to Jan Vork and Line Emilie Laugesen for all their efforts in ensuring things ran smoothly and to Torben Leth for an interesting visit to the Danish Maritime training school.
Past workshops
2025 SHSIMHF Maritime Health and Wellbeing KPIs
2025 Workshop to review Appendix E of the ILO IMO Guidelines on the Medical Examination of Seafarers
2024 ISWAN-IMHA Health promotion for seafarers
2015 The management of medical incidents at sea – imha workshop report.pdf2014 WS KOBE CVW report final workshop.pdf
2013 Consensus paper Telemedicine.pdf
2010 Infection onboard ship in the 21st century – imha workshop report.pdf
2008 The ship’s medical chest-present achievements and further perspectives – imha workshop report.pdf
2007 Metabolic disease in seafarers – imha workshop report.pdf
2006 The application of quality assurance schemes to maritime health care – imha workshop report.pdf
2005 Drug and alcohol abuse among seafarers – the role of the health professions – imha workshop report.pdf
2004 Working at sea and psychosocial risk factors – imha workshop report.pdf
2004 Collection and validation of data in maritime medicine – imha workshop report.pdf
2002 Health and occupational risk prevention in harbours – imha workshop report.pdf
2002 Telemedicine for improving medical assistance to seafarers – imha workshop report.pdf
2002 Health in the fishing industry – imha workshop report.pdf
2000 Draft IMHA health care guidelines for cruise medical facilities – imha workshop report.pdf
1999 Infectious diseases – imha workshop report .pdf