We would like to thank the Dean and personel of UNIVERSITY OF CRETE and the president and personel of FACULTY OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF CRETE for their active and longstanding support by providing seminar rooms, free bus transportation , free web hosting and technical support for the purposes of the PCIP course

We would like to thank the following companies for their support:

GENERAL ELECTRIC HEALTHCARE HELLAS  for their longstanding contribution in the PCIP organization, by providing expert personnel and equipment necessary for  the practical exercise of students in echocardiography (handheld echocardiography systems)

HELP PHARMACEUTICALS S.A for their donation to the University of Crete for the purposes of the PCIP  program

DOKIMAKIS EDITIONS for providing free access to relevant E-book for our students

We would like to thank for the excellent accommodation, technical support,seminar room arrangements and for organizing the evaluation of personnel children:

CASTELLO CITY HOTEL, HERAKLION . 

We would like to thank the major and personel of local community and health stations:

MUNICIPALITY OF ARCHANES-ASTEROUSIA, and CHARAKAS HEALTH STATION for their help and support in organizing the cardiac evaluation of community children in Charakas and Pirgos Health Station and by offering to our participants an excellent  cretan dinner with traditional music.

We thank UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION, for the support in organizing the cardiac evaluation of selected pediatric cardiology patients and MEDICAL COUNCIL OF HERAKLION for supporting the hands on practice of our students.

We are grateful to families and children that participated to the hands on practice for our students.

We would like to thank for their support in the cultural activities of the PCIP course:

Mrs E. Kassotaki, for the  Greek language lecture

Mrs M Manoura and the group of Folklore Dances, University of Crete, for the Greek dances course

Dr Gareth Owens, for the excellent expert guidance in Knossos Palace

We would like to thank all further professors and teachers that participated in the course:

Prof.Dr S. Rammos, Onassis Cardiac Center, Athens

Dr K. Benekos, GE Athens

Prof. Dr G. Briassoulis, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Heraklion

Dr L.Vorgia, Dpt of Pediatrics, Univestity Hospital Heraklion

Dr E. Papadopoulou, Dpt of Pediatrics, Univestity Hospital Heraklion

Dr K Chlapoutakis, Radiologist, Heraklion Crete

Dr N Protonotarios

We would like to thank for their administrative support:

Mrs E.Kortsidaki and the personnel of the international relations office, University of Crete

The personnel of the research account, University of Crete

The personnel of computer services of University of Crete for PCIP website hosting

Mr M. Aerakis, Castello City Hotel and Mr P Pavelka University of Vienna for supporting the web-conferences

Mrs E. Mavrogiorgou and the personnel of the I.K.Y, Athens for their continuous excellent support

We are grateful to Mrs Mariana Daskalaki, secretary of the PCIP 2013 course for her excellent and professional work

Finally we would like to thank the Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete and all participant Faculties and corresponding Erasmus offices for their belief and support of the PCIP Erasmus courses.

The support of European Commission to the present IP and all Intensive Programmes, enabling common teaching practices and transfer of knowledge between European Institutions and of IKY is highly appreciated. .

At last but not least we would like to thank all of participant students for their active participation, feedback and kind motivation to continue our cooperation following the final PCIP course!

The PCIP partner Institution co-ordinators

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