OVERVIEW

21st Century Skills for Healthcare Professionals is organized by HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and will be held from Jul 02 - 13, 2018 at Utrecht, Netherlands.

The target audience for this medical event is Nurses, physiotherapists and other health care related students. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 5.0 ECTS credits.

Course Description:
Nursing-, physiotherapy- and other health-care related students will learn to work in multi-disciplinary teams. Students will acquire new skills (21st-century skills) and will get familiar with the state-of-the-art in health-care technology. These will be taught in relation to global 21st century health-care problems like lifestyle-related illnesses (diabetics, metabolic syndrome) and concepts of pain in biological, mental, social, (inter)cultural context. In this multi-disciplinary working environment and intercultural context, we challenge students to experience elements of their own lifestyle and to combine this with their role as health-care professional. The course is very interactive and includes visits to health care institutes and technology labs.

Nurses, physiotherapists and all kind of health-care workers must deal with the challenges of a continuously changing world. From the international point of view, we notice global similarities and differences. Students in this course will learn to work with universal topics like 21st-century skills, (using the state-of-the-art technologies), leadership, intercultural competences, and to connect these to health topics like lifestyle, metabolic syndrome (obesity, diabetics) and concepts of pain.

In this inter-disciplinary working environment and intercultural context, we challenge the students to experience elements of their own lifestyle and to combine this with their role as a healthcare professional. The course is very interactive and includes visits to healthcare institutes and technology labs.

Course Aim:
To prepare students for the healthcare challenges in the 21st century, by using new technologies and new perspectives in a biological, mental and social way for global healthcare topics.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.