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.