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The aim of this program is to favor the development of the professional career, in assistencial aspects as well as in the scientist, incorporating the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques as well as the technologies most effective, applicable to the specific area of the neurorehabilitation.
The Certificate of Expertise in the Neurorehabilitation is aimed to specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation (also neurology, urology or others) who participate in clinical attention of persons with spinal injury or acquired brain damage, or those who want to work professionally in that field in the future; therefore, specialists plenty used in exercising the knowledge and skills they will acquire in the University Institute during the year the expertise course extents.
Modalities:
·Certificate of expertise in the neurorehabilitation of spinal injury
·Certificate of expertise in the neurorehabilitation of acquired brain damage
·Certificate of expertise in the neurorehabilitation of neurogenic bladder
Neurorehabilitation is a complex care process aimed at restoring, minimizing and/or compensating for any possible functional deficiencies in a person with a severe disability as a consequence of a central nervous system injury. The two most clinically complex injuries are spinal injury and acquired brain damage.
The prognosis in treating spinal injury has changed in quality as well as in quantity since the establishment of specialized hospitals for its treatment. Spinal injury disorders many body functions and requires a series of medical and physical treatments and hygiene measures, as well as more advanced nursing care that, if absent, is fatal inevitably.
Care for brain damage is substantially similar to the treatments required for patients with spinal injury and this is why it has benefited from the experience gained in this discipline. Despite this, there are many aspects related to the greater complexity of brain structures that require a specific clinical treatment.
Care delivery, procedures, techniques and therapeutic protocols relating to spinal injury and acquired brain damage, including drugs, require specific knowledge and approaches that demand the creation and development of multidisciplinary services for the diagnosis and specific rehabilitation treatment of these pathologies, as well as of competent and expert professional staff.
In order to promote training for these care providers, Institut Guttmann, taking as an example the prestigious fellowships from the main USA universities, has created training programmes for the development of expertise in neurorehabilitation targeted at graduate students and specialists specifically practising in this field of expertise and healthcare.
Objectives:
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To train experts in the treatment and specialized rehabilitation of people with spinal injury or acquired brain damage as well as in the complications shared by both pathologies. |
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To issue care providers with the specific know-how and skills necessary to make multidisciplinary work teams and favour convergence of knowledge for everyone’s benefit. |
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To issue experts with the skills needed to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary work teams for the comprehensive care of patients with spinal injury/brain damage. |
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To provide these experts with a working method to allow them to expand their knowledge base as well as to pass it on to other care providers implementing them all over the healthcare system with both safety and quality. |
Admission terms:
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Having a specialist certificate or certificate clearance note valid within the last three years. |
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International students: Course registration requires submission of the validated degree in Medicine and the specialist certificate. |
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Acceptance of the terms of this course as well as of the organization and work methods of Institut Guttmann and its in-house working system. |
Duties:
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Candidates commit themselves to get involved in Institut Guttmann’s care and training tasks monitored by the head of the unit to which they are assigned (who will also tutor the student) and supervised by the relevant doctor or doctors during the training period. |
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Taking part in Institut Guttmann’s research and knowledge promotion tasks according to the Strategic Research Plan. |
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For the graduate certificate, the student must write a paper reviewing one of the subjects included in the curriculum and previously agreed on with his or her tutor. The student will also have to write a article-sized research report on his or her participation in research activities. |
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Candidates accepted must take part in the training tasks of their postgraduate and masters programmes as set out in their course programmes. |
Modes:
Expert training in neurorehabilitation is delivered, in each of its disciplines, in two different modes, one internally and the other externally funded.
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The internal module is based on the best CVs selected by Institut Guttmann’s Education and Research Committee. Each of the specialists selected will win a scholarship from the institution. |
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The external mode applies to a health institution that wishes to improve the training of some of its specialists in this specific area of rehabilitation. This institution will have to present its candidate (for acceptance by Institut Guttmann’s Education and Research Committee), fund the scholarship and pay any other expenses (academic fees, tuition fees and others). |
Each place has a scholarship of 14,000 €, in 14 payments throughout the course, including registration and tuition fees (6,000 €) in the case of the external mode.
Place awarding:
Evaluation and selection of the candidates for the placements will be carried out in a plenary session of the Education and Research Committee of Institut Guttmann.
The Committee has the right to interview all suitable candidates.
The period for the receipt of the requests they will finish On July 15th, 2011.
The Committee may cancel a placement programme for lack of good candidates.
The decision of the Committee is not open to appeal and being a candidate implies knowing and accepting this condition as well as the terms and requirements for the placement programme.
Submission of applications:
The application form must be submitted to the Research and Education Office of Institut Guttmann, Neurorehabilitation Hospital by any of the following means:
For applications to be valid, receipt must be acknowledged within the established dates and the required supporting documentation must be posted registered. Any application received after the deadline will automatically be rejected. The candidate will be notified of any mistakes in the application form or the supporting documents for their amendment by the candidate within 15 working days from notification time.
For more information:
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| INSTITUT GUTTMANN |
| Research and Education Office of Institut Guttmann |
| Training programme for Experts in Neurorehabilitation |
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| Camí de Can Ruti, s/n |
| 08916 Badalona |
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00 (34) 93 497 7700 ext. 2350; |
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00 (34) 93 497 7715 |
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docencia@guttmann.com |
Business hours: Working days from 9 am to 5 pm.
The period for the receipt of the requests they will finish On June 30th, 2011.
Required documentation:
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Application form duly filled up. |
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Student’s transcript. docencia@guttmann.com. |
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Two passport-size photographs. |
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Certified photocopy of the certificate of specialization or certificate clearance note. |
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Photocopy of identity card. |
International students:
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Certified photocopy of a validated degree. |
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Specialist certificate. |
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