Announcement from JMA Chairperson

Dear Junior member,
Thank you very much for your time and effort for answering the JMA questionnaire. We have got an outstanding response (> 200 responses!) and your contribution was very helpful! The questionnaire shows very clearly that the Junior members are keen on clinical educational courses. For the EAACI congress in Vienna 2006 we already implemented this new activity with very interactive clinical educational courses for the Saturday afternoon before the opening ceremony of the congress. The topics are: (I) Diagnostics in rhinology, (II) Management of allergic contact eczema, (III) Immunotherapy: Indication and management. We count on your active contribution to these workshops and are looking forward to meeting you in Vienna 2006! You can check the latest update of the JMA activities at the Vienna Congress programme which is available at the webpage.

On behalf of the JMA working group
with kindest regards

Ulrike Raap
JMA Chairperson

JMA QUESTIONNAIRE 2005
by Ulrike Raap

Results
Total no of responses received: 201

1. What is your profession?
Medical doctor: 67%
Basic research scientist: 28%
Other: 8%

2. Are you in training?
Yes: 68% No: 32%

3. What is your main field of work?
Clinical work: 52%
Clinical research: 30%
Basic research: 40%

4. In which department do you work?
Pediatrics: 11%
ENT: 9%
Pulmonology: 12%
Dermatology: 5%
Internal Medicine: 9%
Allergology: 32%
Immunology: 30%
Other: 13%

5. Are you interested in clinical educational courses to be held at the EAACI congress?
Yes: 79% No: 12% Unsure: 9%

6. Have you had an oral presentation at the EAACI congress?
Poster: 48%
Oral presentation: 17%
No active participation: 39%

7. What is your age?
20-24: 4%
25-30: 51%
31-35: 45%

8. What is your gender?
Male: 35% Female: 65%

9. Do you know who your JMA representative is?
Yes: 50% No: 50%

10. Did you participate in the JMA activities at the EAACI congress in Munich 2005?
Yes: 32% No: 68%

11. Did you join the JMA social event at the EAACI congress in Munich 2005?
Yes: 23% No: 77%

12. Do you visit the EAACI junior website?
Yes: 46% Sometimes: 45% No: 9%

13. Do you feel you have an influence in the EAACI through any of the following groups?
JMA: 35%
Sections: 9%
IGs: 3%
Other: 1%
No: 51%

14. Do you get adequate information about travel grants and/or the EAACI Fellowship Awards?
Yes: 89% No: 7%

15. Have you attended an EAACI Summer School?
Yes: 15% No: 51% If yes:

Which one(s)?
Stockholm 1999: 0%
Bialystok 1999: 3%
Antalya 2000: 13%
Rome-Villasimius 2000: 0%
Ferrara 2000: 0%
Kiev-Yalta 2001: 13%
Sofia Bulgaria 2002: 10%
Bilbao Spain 2002: 7%
Vilnius Lithuania 2003: 7%
Bern Interlaken 2003: 3%
Dubrovnik Croatia 2004: 30%
Madeira Portugal 2004: 10%

1. Do you think it is important that younger members get more influence in the EAACI?  
Yes 95.8% No 0.7% No opinion 2.8% 

2. Do you feel you have an influence in the EAACI through any of the following groups?  
JMAs 49.0% Sections 10.5% IGs 16.1% Other 1.4% No 32.2% 

3. Have you attended an EAACI Summer School?  
Yes 20.3% No 78.3%
If yes: Which one:
Helsinki 97 (2) Montpellier 97 (3) Budapest 98 (3) Stockholm 99 (6) Bialystok 99 (3) Antalya 00 (3) Rome-Villasimius 00 (5) Ferrara 00 (5) Kiev-Yalta 01 (14)
Were you satisfied? Yes 93.1% No 3.4% 

4. Did you know there was an e-mail voting for 2 posts in the JMA Working group this spring?  
Yes 45.5% No 53.1% 

5. Would you like to get involved in the JMA activities?  
Yes 76.2% No 16.1% I already am 2.1%

6. Do you get information about JMA activities?  
Yes via e-mail 72.7% Yes via internet 26.6% No 14.7%

7. Would you participate in the JMA activities at our Congresses if you where there?  
Yes 90.2% No 7.7% 

8. Do you visit the EAACI JMA website?  
Yes 67.8% No 29.4% 

9. Do you know who the members of the Executive Committee are?  
Yes 14.7% Just a few 57.3% No 25.2%

10. Do you get adequate information about travel grants and/or the EAACI Fellowship Awards?  
Yes 65.7% No 28.0%  

If no please specify:
"I'm a new member"
"There is no information on small things such as transport, money, places and so on"
"I didn't get any information about it via e-mail"
"Never received information on how to apply or applications forms"
"We do not have much information in Albania, no internet in my city"
"I can't find travel's grant form".
"The information should be sent as a separate e-mail"
"I don't understand the criteria for travel grant. All applicants from my country got travel grants except me."
"I don't really know, in one year I've received information about one grant"
"I did not know if as an Asian (or non-European) whether I was eligible to apply".  

Total no of responses received = 143