Education & Training On Demand

Keeping current in wound care concepts can be difficult but is extremely important in today's technology  driven treatment environment. KCI's Professional Education department is proud to offer on demand webinars to help you keep up with information and current trends on wound care.

  

Diabetic Foot Wounds

Pisa International Diabetic Foot Courses
Management of the Diabetic Foot

October 4-7 , 2010, Pisa Italy

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The Pisa International Diabetic Foot Courses are based on the knowledge and structure of treatment offered by the specialised diabetic foot clinic at the University Hospital of Pisa.

By combining lectures from different specialists and individual training in the clinic, course participants will gain insight in both the theory of the field and the practical methods used in the clinic. The program is a 4 day theoretical course and practical training.

By also focusing on the structure of treatment and guidelines for establishing a diabetic foot clinic, the courses reach out to clinicians as well as hospital department or clinic management.

As an overall objective objective of the courses, the organisers aim to support the implementation of the European consensus on treatment of the diabetic foot, based on the existing guidelines. The courses will be used as a basis for building up an international educational network within the area and for raising political awareness of the challenges related to treatment and prevention of the diabetic foot.

Course director: Prof. Alberto Piaggesi
Director of the Diabetic Foot Section of the Pisa University Hospital, University of Pisa 

The course offers:
A thorough introduction to all aspects of the diagnosis, management and treatment of the diabetic foot, based on international consensus

- Practical training sessions in the diabetic foot clinic

- Access to follow up support for diabetic foot clinic establishment

  

The EWMA University Conference Model

The EWMA University Conference Model (UCM) is a unique model that combines academic studies at a university of own choice with active participation in the annual EWMA Conference.

The EWMA UCM was piloted with success at the EWMA Conference in Glasgow in May 2007. Since, the EWMA UCM programme has been successfully run during the conferences in Lisbon (2008) and Helsinki (2009).

Participate in the EWMA UCM in Geneva 26-28 May 2010
Students participating in the EWMA UCM usually make very positive evaluations of their experience. Amongst others, they point to the opportunity for networking, the knowledge sharing across countries and the focus on evidence based teaching as important reasons for judging the UCM participation a success.

The opportunity of participating in the EWMA UCM is available to all teaching institutions with wound management teaching programmes for health professionals.

EWMA strongly encourages teaching institutions and students from other countries to benefit from the possibilities of international networking and access to lectures by many of the most experienced wound management experts in the world.

The EWMA University Conference Model:

Allows participating teaching institutions to deliver the main taught component of a wound course during the EWMA Conference;
Provides students with a unique opportunity to engage actively in the professional learning environment of the EWMA conference;
Gives industry partners an opportunity to create or enhance company educational profile.
Course structure

Students register at a participating university and receive pre-course materials prior to the Conference and may in some cases access pre-conference activities before the Conference.
A unique programme of activities based on the conference programme is devised by the academic staff from the participating universities. Time for informal networking with peers and wound healing experts is a central part of the programme.
Lecturers could opt to add post-conference activities after the conference has ended.
After the conference, students will continue to be supported by the participating universities until they submit an assignment at the end of the course.

 

Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

Organized by the World Society on Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WSACS)
  
Location: Square - Brussels Meeting Center 
Chairman:  Manu Malbrain, MD and Jan De Waele, MD 
Date:  March 8, 2010 

This course is designed to be a comprehensive review of current and emerging concepts in intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome for critical care physicians. It will include a combination of didactic lectures on consensus definitions, epidemiology, risk factors, impact on end-organ function, basic and new pathophysiologic principles as well as new and future monitoring and management strategies. It will also include a "hands-on skill station" during the afternoon on intermittent and continuous abdominal pressure measurement techniques. The program includes surgical interventions, temporary abdominal closure and dealing with an open abdomen. For more program information - Click here.

 

AWMA Wound management courses

Australian Wound Management Association courses. For more information - Click here.