• Name of course :

  PEDIATRIC AND ADULT EPILEPTOLOGY

• Qualification awarded:

  Master (Degree Universitat Barcelona)

• Number of credits:

  60,00

• Centre responsible :

  Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

• Length of course (in academic years):

  1

• Mode of delivery (face-to-face/ blended/ distance):

  Face-to-face

• Fons Estupiña, Maria del Carmen

• Arzimanoglou , Alexis

Graduates in medicine, specializing in Pediatrics or .

- Gain knowledge to diagnose epilepsy in children, adolescents and adults.
- Gain knowledge of the main causes of epilepsies.
- To know how to interpret the symptoms of a fit, the EEG and neuroimaging techniques.
- Know how to classify crises and epilepsies.
- Learn the treatment options for epilepsies.
- To be able to assess patients with epilepsy and their families and provide information about the causes, treatments, prognoses, implications and precautions at different points in their lives.
- Gain knowledge of drug treatment of epilepsies in children, adolescents and adults.
- Learn the mechanisms of action, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-epileptic drugs.
- Gain knowledge of the interactions, adverse effects and choice of anti-epileptic drug depending on the type of epilepsy or epileptic syndrome and the characteristics of the patient, dietary treatments and discontinuation of treatment with anti-epileptic drugs.
- To gain knowledge of epilepsies that are candidates for surgical treatment.
- To learn how to interpret the indications of pre-surgical assessment, prolonged video-EEG monitoring, neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging or nuclear medicine tests.
- Learn the available techniques.
- To know how to interpret the results of surgery by etiology.
- To be able to follow-up the patient and manage drugs after surgery and palliative surgery.
- To know how to manage emergencies in situations of epilepsy, including handling of the child, adolescent and adult who is having an epileptic fit outside of the hospital, and know how to diagnose and treat convulsive and non-convulsive epileptic status.
- Learn the comorbidities of epilepsies, including mood and emotional regulation disorders and developmental and learning disorders.

• Enrolment fee:

  • 3.000,00 €

  • An increase of 10% is applied to the price, up to a maximum of € 70, as administration fee

• In-company placement(s):

  No

• Date on which pre-enrolment begins:

  6/1/2023

• Date on which pre-enrolment ends:

  7/31/2023

• Classes begin:

  9/4/2023

• Name of individual or institution:

  Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona

• Address:

  Passeig Sant Joan de Déu 2
  08950 Esplugues de Llobregat
  Espanya

• Email address:

  susana.parraga@sjd.es

• Webpage:

  http://www.sjdhospitalbarcelona.org/es

• Telephone:

  +34 93 280 32 29

• Fax:

  +34 93 600 97 85

• Observations:

  Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Name of individual or institution:

  Servei de Neurología, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu

• Address:

  Passeig Sant Joan de Déu 2
  08950 Esplugues de Llobregat
  Espanya

• Email address:

  susana.parraga@sjd.es

• Webpage:

  http://www.sjdhospitalbarcelona.org

• Telephone:

  +34 93 280 32 29

• Fax:

  +34 93 600 97 85

• Observations:

  Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (if you want more information, write to campistol@sjdhospitalbarcelona.org, sparraga@sjdhospitalbarcelona.org and mcarreno@clinic.ub.es).