ALGOLOGY
Approximately one in five Europeans suffers from chronic pain. Recognising chronic pain as a combination of physical dysfunction, beliefs, coping strategies, distress, illness behaviour and social interactions, the Interuniversity Postgraduate programme in Algology teaches caregivers in the various multimodal and multidisciplinary ways to maximise the pain reduction, quality of life, independence and mobility of people suffering from chronic pain.
The general objective of the education in Algology is to educate qualified specialists in the control of pain in its widest sense. During this postgraduate education the physician gains the necessary scientific knowledge, skills and attitudes in order to provide an excellent patientcare to patients with complex pain-issues.
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Programme
The student gains a profound insight in complex forms of acute, subacute and chronic pain. The student has to develop additional communicative, social, technical and manual skills to evaluate patients on a multidisciplinary level and to function in a multidisciplinary team. In addition, the student has to be able to apply his own specific expertise from previous specialized education in a multimodal treatment plan. The content of the education is organized based on the CanMEDS competence-domain: physician, scientist, communicator.
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Study credits
ECTS (European Credit Transfer System): 1 credit represents 25-30 hours of study activity.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes describe the intended knowledge and understanding, skills and attitudes that you must master after completing your studies.
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