[Swiss continuing education meetings for school physicians. An evaluation of preferences for selected subjects]

The group "school health physicians" of the Swiss Society for Social- and Preventive Medicine has organized since its foundation in 1981 two meetings; Basle in 1982, and Zurich in 1983. Questionnaires were handed out on both occasions on source and extent of experience as school health doctors. The questions included views on the meetings in general and on the various topics discussed. Participants were also asked to write down suggestions for future meetings. The following subjects discussed were voted to be "important" or "very important" by at least two thirds of the participants: ophtalmologic mass examinations; health education as an important new factor for school health physicians as evidenced by the anti-smoke-campaign in Baselstadt schools; round-table-discussion on the currant importance of school-health medicine; certification of fitness for schooling by the school doctor; growth and development of the child on startin school; psychomotor disorders and their effects on children starting school. The third meeting, scheduled for September 27th 1984 in Lausanne, which will include for the first time a morning session, will deal with topics selected by the participants of the Basle and Zurich meetings: orthopedic problems at school age and their prevention; a report on school sports and high-performance sports.