Graduate Diploma in Acupuncture and Pain

This edition of the Postgraduate Degree in Acupuncture and Pain is characterized by having a particular organization in which the teaching material will be taught throughout the academic year from October to June in the online format through the Virtual Campus of the Gimbernat and Tomàs Cerdà University Schools (center attached to the UAB ), and a theoretical-practical classes taught from Monday to Friday, concentrated in 3 weeks during the month of July (exact dates will be updated according to the academic year).
The objective of organizing the postgraduate course in the format described is to encourage students from other countries who speak Spanish to study these studies since the compulsory face-to-face classes are concentrated in 3 consecutive weeks.

This postgraduate course is intended to train medical, physiotherapy and nursing staff in acupuncture techniques and related techniques as a treatment tool for different types of pain.

Acupuncture explains the functioning of the organism from an integrative and global perspective, rather than treating it as analytical or isolated segments.
Pain is one of the most present symptomatologies in our society; increasingly, more and more therapies now use acupuncture and related techniques to treat their patients. Health professionals have found that acupuncture and related techniques provide an ideal working formula for fulfilling their objectives.

Career opportunities

- In recent years, the treatment of pain through acupuncture has become more widespread amongst physiotherapists, nurses and doctors because of its effectiveness and the positive results that it obtains.
- The distinct techniques of acupuncture allow treatment for a great number of alterations relating to pain. They are therefore of very considerable use to physiotherapists, nurses and doctors within any ambit of specialisation. This course specifically enables its students to apply these to a large number of patients.
- A postgraduate course on Acupuncture and Pain allows professionals to gain knowledge in which the patient is considered holistically
- In using these techniques, many physiotherapists and doctors search for forms of treatment that will allow them to provide a solution to distinct types of pain that often affect their patients, thereby broadening the spectrum of the patients they treat beyond those suffering musculoskeletal alterations.
- This training is of interest for physiotherapists, nurses and doctors working in hospitals and also for those who basically work with patients referred through medical-insurance companies or social security, in addition to those in private practice.
- Professionals from distinct ambits of physiotherapy, nursery and medicine will find that this therapeutic modality is an essential tool for working with patients of all ages who are in pain.
- Acupuncture can be applied in distinct areas of specialisation, such as physiotherapy and rehabilitation, traumatology, rheumatology, anaesthesiology, neurology, gynaecology, and oncology, among others.

Scholarships and financial aid

Chek all the information on the possibilities for grants and scholarships in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.

Coordinating centres

Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería y Fisioterapia Gimbernat

Contact

Ishar Dalmau Santamaria

Phone: 935893727 ext 236

Additional information

http://www.eug.es

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