FLORENCE (ITALPRESS) – Launch a census of research activities conducted by the technical, rehabilitation and prevention health professions. This is the objective of the first “Spring colloquium”, a two-day event organized in Florence, at Villa la Quiete, by the SAPIS study center of the National Federation of Orders of Health Technicians of Medical Radiology and of Technical Health Professions, Rehabilitation and Prevention ( FNO TSRM and PSTRP).
Alessandro Beux, President of the SAPIS study centre, in his opening speech underlined that “the SAPIS Spring colloquium is the first of the public initiatives of the study center that SAPIS makes available to the National Federation of Orders of Medical Radiology Healthcare Technicians and technical health professions, rehabilitation and prevention. Within the professions of the FNO TRSM and PSTRP there is a professional heritage that we are trying to survey and enhance”.
The institutional greetings opened with those from Alessandra Petrucci, Rector of the University of Florence, who drew attention to the importance of interdisciplinarity among health professions, “which make an active contribution to the field of research. This opportunity must be exploited by us, in particular, on how to improve training courses as launching pads for research as well”. Followed by Massimo Braganti, Estar General Director, who underlined that “Estar is the body for the technical and administrative support of Tuscany healthcare, and as such is at the service of the innovation of the healthcare system. We are honored to welcome such a high level of discussion, which pursues the same mission as our institution: to offer support to professionals and guarantee people’s health. We will sign a memorandum of understanding between Estar and SAPIS”.
Francesco Annunziato, Director of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of the University of Florence, in his speech reiterated the Department’s desire to invest in healthcare professions, giving them space also in the academy. Representing the healthcare professions, Teresa Calandra, President of the FNO TRSM and PSTRP, and Leonardo Capaccioli, President of the TSRM and PSTRP Order of Florence, Arezzo, Lucca, Prato, Pistoia and Massa Carrara brought their greetings.
“The SAPIS study center – states Teresa Calandra – is a project that starts from afar and was born on a proposal from the Central Committee of the National Federation which strongly believed in the opportunity of having a place within which our professionals and our professionals could grow in the world of research and beyond. Ours is a particular community, made up of 19 health profiles, and we wanted to invest in this context, recognizing its importance, always with the full support of the National Council. The study center will contribute significantly to the growth of our professional community, thus contributing to that of our national healthcare system.”
Although it is the first event organized by the newly established study centre, its data testifies to a notable general interest in the initiative and, above all, to a good vitality of the health professions in the context of research.
The objective of this moment of meeting and sharing was to offer an opportunity to encourage the creation of multi- and inter-professional, as well as multi-and interdisciplinary, groups that do research together and together propose a new unitary vision of the Italian health system.
Niccolò Persiani, General Secretary of the SAPIS study center underlines that “already today it is possible to count on a very high number of researchers. There are 293 healthcare professionals involved in the studies presented, through the collaboration of 29 healthcare companies and 25 universities from 17 different regions. They made themselves available with their research activity and their structures, and this is a wealth that we will certainly treasure. The objective we have set ourselves is to explain to them that they are not just professionals who do research, but they can be researchers who deal with health professions, and this will be a leap in quality that the system really needs”.
For the President of the Tuscany Region Eugenio Giani “this day is important because it highlights the centrality of technical professions, rehabilitation and prevention in contributing to the well-being of citizens, through a public health system like the one in Italy which guarantees universality and equal conditions”.
After the institutional greetings, the parallel sessions began, which were also extremely well attended. During the day, 73 works were presented in 12 different sessions. The interest aroused by the initiative and the works presented by the various speakers suggests the recognition of the cultural ferment within the healthcare professions of the FNO TSRM and PSTRP and their real commitment to research, today and tomorrow. The Spring colloquium will end tomorrow, 10 May, in which representatives of the Ministry of Health and health professions and the world of research will take part, including AgeNaS, ISS and the aforementioned University of Florence. These will be joined by the authoritative voices of a part of our National Health Service, including ESTAR and IRCCS Policlinico AOU Sant’Orsola di Bologna, to discuss the value, professional, scientific and managerial contribution that the professionals belonging to the FNO TSRM and PSTRP can give in the implementation of the epochal reform of the ongoing Italian NHS.
The initiative will end with a debate entitled “Research as a possibility for professional growth for FNO TSRM and PSTRP professionals”, during which the directions of greatest interest and the most effective approaches to research in healthcare professions in Italy will be presented.
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