They show military pharmaceutical installations, scheduled sets, evacuation methods, the field surgery facilities. Training logistics are discussed, specialized companies demonstrate their drugs, bandages, or applied medical material. On a regular basis, MEPS sends out Newsletters, including reports, interesting papers and communications of general interest. MEPS members have been involved in Special Interest Groups, such as the group discussing good storage principles. Next to the obvious important exchange of information and ideas and the general instructive character of the congress meeting, there is the friendly aspect as well.
Pharmacists are scientists and can overcome troubled relations between their countries.