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Incontinence: The Engineering Challenge XV

The 15th biennial Incontinence: The Engineering Challenge conference aims to inform, encourage and inspire those keen to improve technology for diagnosing, treating, or managing urinary or faecal incontinence.

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An interesting, well-organised conference, presenting a wide range of perspectives on continence care.

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Incontinence: The Engineering Challenge XV
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Summary

The 15th biennial Incontinence: The Engineering Challenge conference aims to inform, encourage and inspire those keen to improve technology for diagnosing, treating, or managing urinary or faecal incontinence.

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As ever, the whole event will be highly multi-disciplinary and international and key features for 2025 will include:

  • Patient Panel: an interactive session with people who manage their incontinence and other bladder or bowel emptying problems using continence products. They will share their experiences and describe their highest priority unmet product needs.  
  • Keynote lectures: from expert clinicians, scientists and engineers in the field, and others from outside the incontinence world whose expertise may help those of us working in it. 
  • Research presentations: colleagues working in industry, academia, healthcare and beyond will present their latest incontinence technology-related work. 
  • Multimedia ‘Poster’ Session: submit an abstract to take part in the multimedia poster session. This is intended for all career levels, aiming to reflect emergent research and new insights. Accepted entries will be invited to pre-record a short video, to be hosted on the conference website, and used during the conference for interactive discussion. Sponsored prizes awarded! 
  • Workshops: will provide opportunities to explore key topics informally with fellow delegates. 
  • Incontinence technology in low resource settings session: this session will tackle the challenges of managing continence for those living in low resource settings around the world. The session will feature talks from leading organisations (e.g. WHO) and researchers working in this area, together with patient voice reports to provide a critical personal perspective. 
  • Networking: plenty of opportunities to network, catching up with old friends and making new contacts.

To get a further flavour of what to expect in 2025, you can view programmes for the last three events in this two-yearly conference series on the Institution of Mechanical Engineers website:

2019 
2021 
2023
2023 Flash Poster Presentations pre-event

 

Contributes 14 CPD hours

Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies: E, A and B

  1. Professional commitment - For Incorporated and Chartered Engineers: ‘Demonstrate a personal commitment to professional standards, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment’
  2. Knowledge and understanding - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist engineering knowledge and understanding to optimize the application of existing and emerging technology’ For Incorporated Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist mechanical engineering knowledge and understanding to apply existing and emerging technology’
  3. Design and development of processes, systems, services and products - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to the analysis and solution of mechanical engineering problems’ For Incorporated Engineers ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to design, develop, manufacture, construct commission, operate, maintain, decommission and re-cycle mechanical engineering processes, systems, services and products’

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  • Duration:
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  • Location:
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  • CPD Hours:
    14
  • UK-Spec:
    E, A, B

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