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The specialisation in Occupational Medicine lasts four years and is part of the Multiprofessional Occupational Health Teaching Unit. This Unit is comprised of professionals from the team of the Basic Occupational Risk Prevention Unit and includes professionals from Occupational Medicine (nurses specialising in Occupational Health Nursing and medical specialists in Occupational Medicine) along with senior technicians specialising in Work Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics and Applied Psychology.
Occupational Medicine training itinerary
The specialisation in Occupational Medicine includes:
Additionally, you will have the opportunity to train in disciplines you might not yet have had the opportunity to study in depth, such as: Occupational Safety and Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics and Applied Psychosociology.
Also, during your stay:
Other aspects you will develop during your stay:
The specialisation of Occupational Health Nursing lasts for two years. It is integrated into the Occupational Health Multiprofessional Teaching Unit, comprised of Basic Occupational Risk Prevention team professionals, which includes experts in Occupational Medicine (nurse specialists in Occupational Health Nursing and medical specialists in Occupational Health Medicine) and senior technicians specialising in Workplace Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics and Applied Psychology.
Occupational Health Nursing training itinerary
The Occupational Health Nursing speciality includes:
During your two years at Vall d’Hebron:
Why specialise at Vall d’Hebron?
Internal Medicine, General Hospital
At the Internal Medicine Department, we offer comprehensive internal medicine care to adult patients in our region, both at the Hospital and in Primary Care. We are a leading point of reference in both Catalonia and Spain in systemic autoimmune diseases. In addition, the Ageing and Chronic Patient Section covers Geriatrics and coordinates and collaborates with social-healthcare provision throughout the region.
The Internal Medicine Department is the cornerstone of medical care at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. It is key in providing support to the other medical and surgical departments and the Accident and Emergency Department.
Systemic autoimmune diseases are the main specialty of the Department. We have more than 30 years’ experience in these illnesses and are a leading centre in both Catalonia and Spain as a whole. In terms of care, teaching and research our professionals are leaders in diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, dermatopolimyositis, systemic vasculitis, Sjögren's syndrome and Behçet's disease. We have a multidisciplinary team of professionals offering expert, personalised care for patients with these diseases, both in diagnosis and in treatment and subsequent follow-up at the Outpatient Clinic. We also offer support to the Obstetrics Department in the management of pregnancy for women with these diseases and with primary antiphospholipid syndrome.
The Vascular Risk Unit is a leading point of reference in the diagnosis and treatment of dyslipidemia and arteriosclerosis and their complications, and collaborates with all the other hospital departments involved in the management of these patients.
The Ageing and Chronic Patient Section is made up of the Geriatrics Unit of the General Hospital and the Orthopaedics Unit of the Hospital of Traumatology. This Section, in collaboration with the Primary Care Section, has recently inaugurated a new centre for chronic care (Chronicity Integral Support Team, or ESIC) that is located in the Casernes building in Sant Andreu, whose mission it is to bring the hospital expertise closer to the patients, thus avoiding unnecessary hospital trips and hospitalisation. This pioneering section is but the start of a whole network of such centres in the city of Barcelona and surrounding areas.
The Ageing Division coordinates and collaborates with centres for subacute patients and social-health centres in our region, in particular with the Pere Virgili Health Park.
The ultimate goal of our entire organisation is to ensure that the patient is at the heart of every action taken, to ensure continued care both in Primary Care and in our Hospital, as well as after the patient has been discharged.
The Departmental Research Unit, which is part of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), brings together basic research projects in immunology, systemic autoimmune diseases and ageing from the various Departmental teams, and participates in national and international clinical trials, and projects with public and private funding.
In terms of teaching, it is the mission of the Internal Medicine Department to help train doctors at the Vall d'Hebron Teaching Unit of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, to train residents in internal medicine and geriatrics and to train Postgraduate and continuing education students in systemic autoimmune diseases and in clinical gerontology.
The Rheumatology Department's Teaching Unit is officially authorised for the training of resident Rheumatology interns. At present, we offer two training places for residents every year. One of our priority objectives is to attract and train resident doctors in order to return the knowledge we have gained to society and to further the training of highly-qualified professionals to face the future challenges of medicine, also known as personalised or precision medicine.
At the Rheumatology Section, we carry out extensive teaching activity, both in continuous education within the department itself, and in the organisation of seminars and courses aimed at professionals from other hospitals and other medical specialities. One of our objectives is to enhance the health workshops aimed at patients. We actively participate in national and international congresses.
We are a leading national and international centre with a high number of applications for training places, especially in the areas of paediatric rheumatology, chronic inflammatory arthritis and systemic autoimmune diseases, musculoskeletal ultrasound and central sensitivity syndromes.
We give theory and practical classes in Rheumatology in the Medicine Degree course at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. We also undertake intense teaching activities in Master’s courses and other postgraduate activities.
Rheumatology training itinerary
We are a clinical unit that aims to offer high-quality, cross-cutting care and teaching, as well as developing research excellence in the area of musculoskeletal and connective tissue diseases. We have extensive experience in training specialists in rheumatology. We guarantee rigorous, high-quality training in all the professional care, research and teaching skills in our area.
The training programme includes residents in the Rheumatology research group’s lines of research, so that they receive general training in research methodology, conventional and new areas of research, such as precision medicine, as well as evidence-based precision medicine, evidence-based medicine and research based on healthcare outcomes. Furthermore, our residents have the chance to undertake training periods in internationally renowned centres in both Europe and the United States.
Experience in research allows us to offer students a high-quality doctoral programme to carry out a thesis project and become a Doctor of Medicine. We also offer the opportunity to actively collaborate on research projects assessed by national and European public research bodies, and to co-author the resulting papers.
Why do your residency at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital?
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