Author: Ana Viegas Affiliation: Co-chair, EuGMS Early-Career Geriatricians Initiative (ECGI) The 1st UEMS Congress (Leuven, Belgium, 27-30 May 2026), the inaugural edition of the event organised by the European Union of Medical Specialists, drew colleagues from across specialties. Its programme reached well beyond science and practice into training, working conditions, and what early-career specialists need to build careers across borders. I attended as a mentee under the new

Author: Seraina Netzer Afilliations: 1:Department of Geriatrics, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Department of Geriatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 3: Berner Spitalzentrum für Altersmedizin Siloah, BESAS, Gümligen, Switzerland When I started building a clinical registry for patients with hip fracture, I assumed the main challenge would be the data collection itself. What I didn’t expect was