Elective Module
Date: 28 – 29 January 2027
Venue: Zurich (participation in person or online)
Language: English
Registration single module: Registration
Fee: two-day module CHF 500, single-day booking CHF 280 (from November 2026: CHF 830 and CHF 430)
Credits
1 ECTS point two-day module
CME points applied for “Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland (SEMS)”
CME points applied for “Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie”
Content
In this module, the influence of sex and gender on various aspects and pathologies affecting the musculoskeletal system is conveyed. In addition to the points that directly affect the musculoskeletal system, the immune system as well as trainability and performance will be examined more closely.
Specifically, the module covers the following topics:
Sports Medicine
- Sex-specific injury patterns and risk factors
- Differences in concussion incidence and outcomes
- Sex differences in energy metabolism and muscle metabolism
- Influence of hormones on trainability and athletic performance
- Female-specific topics: the Female Athlete Triad and exercise during pregnancy
Rheumatology
- Sex differences in the prevalence and manifestation of rheumatic diseases
- The influence of chromosomes, hormones, and the immune system
- The relationship between pregnancy, menopause, and disease risk
- Sex-specific differences in response to therapies
- The significance of sex for personalised medicine
Forensic Medicine
- Suicidality: differences in epidemiology, risk factors, and the gender paradox
- Poisoning and intoxication: women are affected more frequently in adulthood
- Medication overdoses and poisonings are particularly common
- Injuries and road traffic accidents: different risk situations for women and men
- Sexual offences involving adults: the “Bern Model”
Objectives
Participants
- are aware of the special features of the care of female recreational and competitive athletes with regard to injury patterns, measures for prevention, trainability and training design, prevention, recognition and therapy of energy deficit syndromes, pregnancy.
- know the sex-specific differences of the immune system and are able to draw correct conclusions regarding immunopathogenesis, prevalence, phenotype and thus diagnostics as well as outcome and therapy of autoimmune diseases.
- know the epidemiological differences in forensic medicine with regard to sex and gender and can derive individual approaches from this.