Clinical Course at a Specialized Headache Center
Course content
The course covers the following topics:
• participation in patient interviews,
• examinations,
• follow up-visits,
• prevention strategies
• interdisciplinary treatments as well as
• patient communication
• instructions and strategic discussions with patients and
relatives
• case demonstrations
• lectures and clinical training in a pediatric headache
center
• hands-on demonstration and practise of injections of
botulinum toxin
• hands-on demonstration and practise of greater occipital
nerve blockades
The course will present you for real life patients and teach you how to obtain the correct diagnosis, how to interview and inform patients, how to make an optimal management plan and how to follow up on these patients. All aspects including the role of physiotherapists, nurses, secretaries and psychologists will be covered and you will get hands on experience with injections of botolinum toxin and greater occipital nerve blockades.
Teachers will be international leading headache experts.
The course is organized as a combination of hands on management of patients and lectures, which will be mainly cased based. The course will include homework, where you will have to prepare clinically oriented presentations. At the end you will have learned how a multidisciplinary tertiary headache centre managing complex headache patients is organized and how to put previously acquired theory into practice.
** This course is offered every other year. The next course is scheduled in 2025 Autumn Semester.
On completion of the course, the participants should be able to:
Knowledge:
• have insight into work at an internationally recognised
headache centre
• strengthen their knowledge about rare types of headache and
patients with severe symptoms accompanied by marked comorbidity or
treatment resistance
• acquire knowledge about invasive treatment strategies
• acquire knowledge about communicating and teaching about
headache disorders
• acquire data
• evaluate treatment strategies
Skills:
• make the optimal diagnoses of patients with rare and
difficult to treat headache disorders
• take responsibility for their own development and learning
• initiate relevant interdisciplinary treatment of patients
• initiate follow up programs and suggest treatment adjustment
over time
• initiate GON-blocks and treatment with Botulinum toxin in
relevant patients
• assess and critically present cases and scientific articles
about treatment and multidisciplinary intervention
Competencies:
• optimise the diagnostic and therapeutic process of rare
headache disorders and patients with severe symptoms
• contribute to future teaching, communication and research in
interdisciplinary treatment
• administer injections of botulinum toxin
• administer GON-blocks
• initiate new organisational measures and to develop national
and international treatment guidelines on a scientific
basis
The teaching methods will include a combination of interactive lectures, patient interviews and presentations, hands-on-classes, group exercises, case studies, journal clubs, essay and computer-based (electronic) learning exercises (WIKIs). Using the Absalon platform or similar for upload of learning materials will allow team work for reading, interpreting and discussing selected scientific articles and cases.
See Literature List in Absalon/Canvass
Applicants must have master’s or bachelor’s degree within Pharmacy, Medicine, Psychology, Public Health, Nursing, Physical Therapy or the equivalent from a university in or outside of Denmark.
This module can be taken as a single course to external participants who meet the MHD admission requirements, ONLY IF any slots are available.
- ECTS
- 10 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Practical oral examination, 1 hour
- Type of assessment details
- Practical oral examination, 60 minutes, with 60 minutes patient
interview or a given case and preparation.
The examination task is a practical oral examination that includes a patient interview or based on a given case and examination and should illustrate a broad knowledge and insight into the relevant the clinical presentation, the diagnostic strategies and the treatment plan. - Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
One internal examiner
- Exam period
-
See exam schedule.
- Re-exam
-
A reexamination will be possible if the student fails the first examination.
The exam form for the reexam is the same as the ordinary exam. See dates in the exam schedule.
Criteria for exam assessment
To achieve the maximum grade of 12, the student must be able to:
Knowledge
• demonstrate a detailed insight into work at an
internationally recognised headache centre
• demonstrate a thorough ability to diagnose common as well as
rare headache disorders
• have an extensive knowledge on management of migraine,
tension-type headache, cluster headache, medication-overuse
headache and trigeminal neuralgia
• have a comprehensive knowledge on management of other
primary and secondary headache disorders and other types of facial
pain
• have a detailed insight into how to perform clinically based
research
Skills
• communicate and teach about headache disorders
• make the optimal diagnoses of patients with rare and
difficult to treat headache disorders
• initiate relevant interdisciplinary treatment of patients
• initiate follow up programs and suggest treatment adjustment
over time
• administer and correctly initiate GON-blocks and treatment
with Botulinum toxin
• assess and critically present cases and scientific articles
about treatment and multidisciplinary intervention
Competences
• optimise the diagnostic and therapeutic process of rare
headache disorders and patients with severe symptoms
• contribute to future teaching, communication and research in
interdisciplinary management
• initiate new organisational measures and to develop national
and international treatment guidelines on a scientific
basis
Part time Master and Diploma courses
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 60
- Preparation
- 60
- Exercises
- 40
- Practical Training
- 60
- Study Groups
- 35
- Guidance
- 5
- Exam Preparation
- 10
- Exam
- 1
- English
- 271
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- SHDM16005U
- ECTS
- 10 ECTS
- Programme level
- Part Time Master
Full Degree Master
- Placement
- Autumn
- Price
-
Fees are published on the course page: https://mhd.ku.dk/courses/specialized/
The fees cover course registration, course materials, examination and a completion certificate for single course participants. Fees may be subject to change.
- Schedulegroup
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The course is offered in two groups. Each Group has 10-15 students.
Group 1 : 13-17 Oct 2025 (E-Learning) 20 Oct- 7 Nov. 2025 (Clinical)
Group 2: 5-9 January 2026 (E-Learning) 12-30 January 2026 (Clinical) - Capacity
- 15-30 participants
15 participants per group/tranche - Studyboard
- Study Board for the Professionel Master´s Degree Programmes at The Faculty og Health and Medical Science
Contracting department
- Department of Clinical Medicine
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Course Coordinator
- Lars Bendtsen (13-74697a7b366a6d766c7c7b6d76487a6d6f71777670366c73)
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