INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN GERIATRIC MEDICINE
(26th-27th June 2008)

Nowadays, the medicine practice requires a constant need of knowledge’s update. A discipline like Geriatrics, that is attending a greater collective every day, is not away from this need and should continue advancing to achieve the corresponding interventional level.

This fourth edition of the International Course in Geriatric Medicine once again brings together professors from the USA and Europe to provide updates based on a review of each of the selected themes, to which they bring their own professional experience.

This course again involves the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Toulouse, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Britain's Luton University.

The course is aimed at geriatric doctors, family doctors, internists and doctors from other specialities where older people are frequently treated.

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CURS BÀSIC D'EPIDEMIOLOGIA I METODOLOGIA CIENTÍFIC EN L'ÀMBIT DE L'ENVELLIMENT
This course is targetes to primary care professionals and also people working in long term care centers who have interest in making research work in their field.
The content of the couse will give basic knowledge which will allow to make a critical reading of scientific literature, ellaborating a writen scientific communication and designing a study

Next edition: 2007

CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY MASTER (2006-2008)
This master, promoted by the Medicine Department, directed by Dr. Miquel Vilardell and with the coordination of the Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona, the Vall d'Hebron Hospital and the Fundació Institut Català de l'Envelliment, has the following objectives:

1.- Achieve an integral vision of the aging phenomenon of people and populations.
2.- Achive an expert level in Exhaustive Geriatric Assessment
3.- Consolidation of the methodology of team work and coordinated care.
4.- Achieve a wide knowledge of the physiopathology of aging and of diagnostic, prevention and treatment of the main diseases of the elderly.
5.- Achieve expertise in the management of geriatric syndromes
6.- To become introduced to the scientific methodology applied to the study of aged populations or elderly people.

TITLES
Master: 340 hours o theory classes: CE 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, plus a research report.
Postgraduate Diploma: 190 hours of theory classes: CE 2, 3 and 4, plus research report.
Majoring courses: 40 to 90 hours of theory classes

MODULES

CE 1. Gerontology basics: 60 hours

CE 2. Geriatrics basics: 80 hours.

CE 3. Geriatric syndromes:

CE 4. Intervention and health care levels:

CE 5. Organs and systems diseases:

The lessons will be given in the clasrooms of the Centre d'Estudis Col·legials del Col·legi de Metges de Barcelona (Passeig de la Bonanova, 47. 08017 Barcelona)

PRICES

• Majoring courses: Between 440 and 990€
• Postgraduate Diploma: 2125€
• Master: 3775€

SECRETARIAT

• Sra Lourdes Lópezar (Monday 18-21h and Friday from 15 to 18h)
• Phone 93 567 88 88 - Fax 93 567 88 61
• e-mail: master.gerontol@comb.es

You can find more information about the master in the online campus website: www.forumgeriatrics.org