ETRS Summer School 2017 – Brussels, Belgium

ETRS Summer School 2017
September 11th-12th, 2017
Queen Astrid Military Hospital Brussels
Brussels, Belgium

This year’s summer school is organized on September 11-12, prior to the annual meeting. Topic will be burns; we aim to discuss all aspects in the treatment of patients with burn wounds. We aim for a maximum of 25 participants to allow most optimal environment for networking. We encourage trainees from all backgrounds and at all career stages to apply.

It will be a 1½ day event starting Monday, September 11th around noon and end Tuesday, September 12th at the end of the day.

  • Location: Queen Astrid Military Hospital Brussels
  • Lodging: to be announced
  • We aim to keep the fee as low as possible (approx. € 150)
  • We will organize a dinner on Monday evening (not included in the fee, but we will keep the price reasonable)
  • Interactive lectures different disciplines
  • Visit clinic/patient interaction

 

Preliminary programme

Monday
12:00 – 12:30 Arrival at the Queen Astrid Military Hospital Brussels
Welcome
13:00 – 15:00 5 minutes introductions by student participants
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee/Tea break
15:30 – 18:00 Acute care
– Hospitalisation
– Standard treatment
– Advanced therapies
– Outcome parameters of treatment
18:00 Departure to dinner location
Tuesday
8:30 Transportation from lodging to Queen Astrid Military Hospital
9:00 – 12:00 Treatment in practice, the group will be split in three groups
(approx. 1 hour per discipline)
– Visit clinic (possible patient participation)
– Visit clean room facility
– Physical therapy in practice (possible patient participation)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch with paired mentors
13:30 – 15:30 Aftercare 1 (possible patient participation)
– Lectures/workshop on physical therapy/occupational therapy
– Skin care after healing/scar management: secondary skin care, pressure garment, silicon, physical therapy (massage, shockwave, etc.)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea break
16:00 – 18:00 Aftercare 2 (possible patient participation)
– Lectures/workshop improvement of QoL
– Improvement of QoL related to function
– Psychological well being and QoL
18:00 End of programme

 

Application form

Please follow this link to the fill in Application Form and send it back to office@etrs.org by August 1, 2017.

You will be notified about your application within 2 weeks after the deadline.

For more inquiries please contact Magda Ulrich: mulrich@burns.nl.