Conference Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire

Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire was organized for the first time in 2018 in Kraków, Poland. In 2022, the 4th edition featured the first Z.J. Ryn Award ceremony for unique contribution to the Medical Review Auschwitz project and for the best lecture at the conference. The 5th edition attracted over 100 hundred participants from around the world.  

The conference is organized by the Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine in collaboration with the Kraków Medical Society, Institute of National Remembrance and Jagiellonian University Medical College. Conference partners include the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the International Chair in Bioethics (WMA Cooperation Center). 

Target audience 

Clinical practitioners of various specialties; members of ethical committees at medical institutions; medical educators working in bioethics, medical ethics and history of medicine programs; residents and fellows in training interested in the legacy of the Holocaust for clinical practice, professional ethics, physician-patient relationship and bioethics. 

The conference is open to allied medical professionals, including psychotherapists and psychologists, nurses, midwives and paramedics. The program is also directed to students of medicine and related disciplines as well as ethicists, bioethicists and historians of medicine. 

All informations at https://mra.piebm.org/conference/#title