Core Scientific Sessions

Good Practice in Labour and Delivery
1. Normal progress of labour: Partogram
2. Active management of labour: Does it work?
3. Anaesthesia in labour: When and what type
4. Second stage of labour: Position, spontaneously push or stimulated push

Vaginal Birth after Caesarean (VBAC)
1. Trends, prediction models, success rates
2. Risks associated with trial of labour and risks associated with repeat Cs
3. Role of ultrasound in predicting success
4. Induction of labour and labour augmentation: Are they safe?

Induction of Labour: State of the Art
1. Mechanical versus pharmacologic agents or in combination
2. Should primigravidas be induced at 39 weeks electively?
3. What is considered a failed induction?
4. The challenge of induction in twins

Safety and Quality in Obstetric Care
1. Frequency and factors contributable to preventable adverse outcomes
2. Strategy for analysis of incidents of adverse outcomes
3. Interventions to improve obstetric safety based on evidence
4. Measurements of quality in obstetric care

Operative Vaginal Delivery
1. Classification, prerequisites and indications
2. Vacuum and forceps: Benefits and risks
3. Second stage of labour - impacted engage head
4. Vaginal breech birth

Emergencies During Pregnancy and Labour
1. Uterine rupture
2. Amniotic fluid embolism/thromboembolism
3. Shoulder dystocia
4. Placental abruption

Prenatal Diagnosis
1. Expanded pre-conceptional carrier screening (pan-ethnic)
2. Preimplantation genetic testing with embryo selection
3. Management of fetal anomalies using exome sequencing
4. Aneuploidy testing using maternal plasma for all chromosomes

Preterm Birth
1. FIGO Good Practice Document on Preterm Delivery - low hanging fruit for improvement of care
2. Progesterone for prevention of preterm delivery
3. Corticosteroids to improve neonatal and long-term outcome – underuse, overuse and correct use?

Fetal Growth Initiative
1. Game changers: New discoveries that could change clinical practice
2. Prevention and prediction of FGR: LMIC and HIC (lifestyle/medical co-morbidities; biomarkers and ultrasound to predict FGR)
3. Diagnosis of FGR (use of charts; which Doppler and when?)
4. Best practice in 2021: A pragmatic guide for screening, diagnosis and management of fetal growth restriction

Hypertension and Pregnancy Initiative (HAP 1 and 2)
1. Game changers: New discoveries that could change clinical practice - new with therapeutics
2. Prediction and prevention of preeclampsia: Application in LMIC and HIC settings
3. Diagnosis of PET
4. Best practice in 2021: FIGO Hypertension in Pregnancy Guidelines – prediction and prevention in 1st trimester and diagnosis and management in 2nd/3rd

Maternal Health and Pregnancy: Obesity and Diabetes
1. Diabetes in pregnancy: Towards a global consensus on GDM diagnosis: Light at the end of the tunnel?
2. Obesity and nutrition in pregnancy: Evidence-based practice
3. Obesity and nutrition in pregnancy: Long term maternal offspring health
4. Best practice in 2021: FIGO Pregnancy Obesity and Nutrition (PONI) Guidelines

Improving Care for Women after High-Risk Pregnancy
1. Setting the scene - improving maternal and offspring’s health; The FIGO Life Cycle approach to prevention of future NCD
2. SMART Health Pregnancy program
3. BP² study
4. Best practice in 2021: The FIGO Post Pregnancy Guidelines - long-term maternal implications of pregnancy complications

Innovations Training
1. Surgical training across continents
2. What a top educational surgical video should be
3. Augmented reality
4. European training standards in operative gynaecology

Fibroids
1. Which myoma should we treat in infertile women
2. HIFU and myoma
3. Myoma management in Sub Saharan Africa

Vaginal Surgery Prolapse Mesh
1. Particularities of surgical treatment of prolapse in an African setting
2. The rise and fall of surgery with mesh in Europe
3. Surgical treatment of prolapse in 2021
4. Vaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (V-NOTESs)

Obesity
1. Improving clinical outcomes for obese patients having gynaecological surgery
2. Vaginal surgery in the obese patient
3. Gynaecological surgery in the obese patient: Techniques for all pockets

Infection COVID HAI
1. Global surveillance for risk mitigation of HAI
2. Surgery in PID when and how
3. Health outcomes in women with gynaecological infections; a silent pandemic
4. Interventions to minimise SSI in gynaecological surgeries

Chronic Pelvic Pain: Surgical Approach
1. Unmet needs in education for CPP providers
2. Hysterectomy for CPP
3. Post-surgical pain
4. What to do when surgery failed?

Challenges in Prolapse Repairs
1. Anterior compartment repair when and how
2. Surgical approaches to apical support
3. Surgical management of SUI?
4. Posterior compartment repair when and how

Office Urology/Urogynaecology
1. Bulking agents
2. ERAS in urogynaecology
3. Office management of OAB (Botox)
4. Haematuria update

Bread and Butter Urogynaecology
1. Obesity and pelvic floor
2. The anatomy of the pelvic floor: Surgical procedures and anatomical conditions
3. Pelvic floor ultrasound: A diagnostic tool for urinary incontinence and POP
4. Alternatives to midurthral sing

Fistula Session
1. Use of interposition flaps in fistula repair: New ideas and evidence
2. Stress incontinence following VVF Repair. Management strategies
3. Getting it right first time: Essentials in surgical repair of difficult VVF
4. First world challenges: Iatrogenic VVF and mesh complications

Birth Injury and Fistula Training Session
1. Update on FIGO fistula training
2. A view from the trenches
3. Advice for prospective trainees
4. Perineal and anal sphincter tears

UGSA Session
1. Robotics in urogynaecology
2. The elderly urogynaecology patient
3. Emerging technologies in urogynaecology
4. Vaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery

Paediatric/Adolescent Gynaecology
1. Vaccine against HPV: Actual state
2. Abnormal uterine bleeding: How to treat it?
3. PCOS: Diagnosis and management
4. Endometriosis in adolescence: Conservative treatment or early surgical treatment

Abnormal Uterine Bleeding/Anaemia
1. Overview
2. Iron metabolism
3. Finding the cause of the HMB
4. Dual therapy - stop the leak, fill up the tank

Diagnosis and Management of Fibroids, Endometriosis, Adenomyosis
1. The impact of endometriosis on endometrial function and embryo implantation
2. Minimising side effects during medical treatment of endometriosis and fibroids
3. Adenomyosis and infertility: What to do
4. Fibroids and infertility
5. Optimising surgical management of endometriosis: How to improve outcomes and prevent recurrence of disease

Menopause
1. The role of testosterone therapy in postmenopausal women
2. Hormone therapy - state of the art
3. Can hormonal therapy be indicated for the primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases?
4. What is the best strategy to protect the endometrium in women undergoing oestrogen therapy?

Infectious Disease
1. COVID-19 and laparoscopy
2. Vaginal infections – what to look for and when to treat
3. Vaginal microbiome in health and pathology - do we have a common understanding worldwide?
4. STDs and PID – challenges in the 21st century

Office Procedures
1. Consent and pain management in office hysteroscopy in the UK
2. Current research and developments in office diagnosis and management of uterine pathology
3. Management of early abnormal placentation
4. Streamlining the diagnosis of endometrial pathology

COVID-19 and Cancer
1. Implications on cervical cancer
2. Effects on ovarian cancer and chemotherapy in an infectious pandemic
3. Social inequities: Effects on COVID-19, cancer and survival
4. Post COVID-19 recommendations: How well have we done?

ERAS
1. ERAS for Ovarian Cancer/HIPEC
2. Vulvar and vaginal surgery
3. OB ERAS
4. How to conduct ERAS research (RECOvER Checklist)

Cervical Cancer Updates
1. WHO cervical cancer initiative eradication and update
2. The future of cervical treatment: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy, simple cones/hysts - SHAPE
3. Prevention and management of cervical cancer in women living with HIV
4. Fertility preservation: Is it time to forget the radical trachelectomy? - CONSERVE study

The Era of Sentinel Lymph Nodes
1. Endometrial cancer
2. Cervical cancer
3. Vulvar cancer
4. Sentinel pathology, frozen sections and pitfall

Complementary and Supportive Cancer Care
1. Palliative care for advance cervical cancers
2. Supportive care
3. Nutrition
4. Therapies: The good, the bad and the ugly

Hormones and cancer
1. Aromatase inhibitors/SERMs in gynaecologic cancers
2. Endometrial/sarcoma/obesity implications with COVID-19
3. Low grade/sex cord stromal
4. Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: Where is the balance?

Updates in Reproductive Endocrinology
1. Fertility Preservation
2. Ovarian stimulation
3. Ovulatory disorders and infertility

Fertility Care in Times of Global Emergencies
1. COVID-19 impact on human reproduction
2. Telemedicine - enhancing access for the infertile
3. South American experience
4. Access to reproductive care

Reproductive Consequences of Environmental Changes
1. Impact on female fertility and pregnancy outcomes
2. Scale of the problem
3. The next generation
4. Chemicals affecting male reproduction

Legal and ethical challenges
1. Cross border reproduction
2. Gamete donation and surrogacy
3. Posthumous gamete procurement
4. Multiple pregnancy

Improving fertility care
1. Nutrition and lifestyle
2. Optimising maternal/paternal health
3. Obesity pandemic - a challenge for patients and REIs

ART in Low-Resource Countries
1. African perspective
2. Low cost ART in Latin America
3. Natural versus simulated IVF

Contraception: Advances and Innovations
1. Birth control: Where does coercion start
2. Accessing contraceptive methods with fewer barriers
3. Overcoming access barriers to LARC by a rights-based approach
4. Developments in male contraceptive technology

Induced Abortion: Pushing the Limits
1. Self-managed and “no-test” abortion with pills
2. Abortion from very early to much later
3. The continuing relevance of vacuum aspiration in induced abortion
4. Expanding the provider base to increase abortion access worldwide

Human Sexuality: A Neglected Subject in Women’s Health
1. Human sexuality education - a frequently missing topic from student’s curriculum
2. Sexual dysfunction in postpartum women
3. Vaginismus – how big is the issue?
4. Sexual health needs of minorities and differently abled

Counselling, Knowledge Dissemination and Reproductive Healthcare
1. Provider attitudes in creating a good climate for communication and counselling
2. Structured contraceptive counselling to optimise acceptance and success
3. Change in healthcare provider behaviour and attitude by value clarification
4. Telemedicine and other innovations for counselling in reproductive healthcare

Adolescent Health: Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman
1. Sexual and reproductive healthcare for adolescent women
2. Adolescent medicine as a specialty
3. Polycystic ovaries in adolescents
4. Programmes by national professional organisations to empower girls

Challenges in Standing up for Reproductive Rights and Services
1. Physicians as human & reproductive rights defenders
2. The importance of decriminalising induced abortion
3. Conscientious objection in reproductive healthcare – rights versus barriers
4. Sexual and reproductive health and rights investment as a key to global health

Self and Remote Access Management in Reproductive Healthcare
1. Overcoming challenges of contraceptive access in remote communities
2. At home telemedicine for medical abortion
3. Challenges in leveraging technology to provide abortion access worldwide
4. Recognising and responding to domestic violence by telehealth