Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Advanced PhD Course in Headache Disorders (mixed online and in-person format)
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3170-21-00-00	There are no available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 15/01/2021

Date and time	15.02.2021, at: 08:00 - 22.03.2021, at: 21:30
Regular seats	12
Course fee	21,960.00 kr.
Lecturers	Faisal Mohammad Amin
ECTS credits	17.50

Contact person	Faisal Mohammad Amin E-mail address: faisal@dadlnet.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from Nordic countries. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Understand the epidemiology and attributable burden of headache disorders worldwide. 2. Define systems of care for the clinical management of headache disorders, including how primary and specialist care complements each other. 3. Diagnose headache disorders in accordance with the International Classification of Headache Disorders. 4. Identify red flags in the medical history and/or on physical examination. 5. Perform a neurological examination and provocation experiment on at least five patients with migraine 6. Describe the anatomical and physiological framework by which migraine pathogenesis is understood, i.e. the trigeminovacular system. 7. Understand and describe basic principles of genetic investigations in headache sciences. 8. Understand and describe basic principles of animal models in headache sciences. 9. Understand and describe basic principles of human provocation models in headache sciences. 10. Understand and describe basic principles of structural and functional imaging in headache sciences. 11. Understand and describe basic principles of cortical spreading depression and migraine aura. 12. Understand and demonstrate basic principles of clinical management of headache disorders, including use of evidence-based approaches for acute and preventive treatment. Content The course curriculum is identical to one defined by the International Headache Society and will cover the following topics of headache sciences 1. Anatomy and Pathophysiology 2. Epidemiology, Environment, Disability and Genetics 3. Clinical Investigation for Headache 4. Diagnosis and Classification of Headache Disorders according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd Edition 6. Therapy 7. Comorbidities, Course and Prognosis of Headache Disorders 8. Miscellaneous Participants The course is relevant to PhD students and other researchers who are involved in headache sciences. Knowledge of basic terminology in headache sciences is required. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Neuroscience Medical and Molecular Imaging Language English Form Lectures, discussions, group work, homework, exercises, written assignment Course director Faisal Mohammad Amin, Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet, faisal.mohammad.amin.01@regionh.dk Teachers Faisal Mohammad Amin, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet Messoud Ashina, Professor, University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet Rigmor Jensen, Professor, University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet Henrik Schytz, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet Thomas Hansen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet Sait Ashina, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, University of Copenhagen Hashmat Ghanizada, MD, PhD, Rigshospitalet Casper Christensen, MD, PhD, Rigshospitalet Samaira Younis, MD, PhD, Rigshospitalet Mohammad Al-Karagholi, MD, PhD, Rigshospitalet Dates and time Date: 15 February - 22 March 2021 Time: All days (except the days below): 8am – 15pm 4, 11 and 22 March: 14:30pm – 21:30pm In total 35 course hours each week for 5 weeks Course location Mixed online and in-person format. Danish Headache Center, Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet Glostrup Valdemar Hansens Vej 5, Entrance 1A, 2600, Glostrup, Denmark. Registration Please register before 15 January 2021 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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