Parallel to the practical training, the candidate specialist will follow a university course organised as follows :
First part
An inter-university programme consisting of lectures on differents subjets relating to Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, covering the diagnoses and evaluation of injuries, disabilities and handicaps and physical and rehabilitation medical treatments for locomotor aid where the aetiology is traumatic, orthopedic, rheumatic, neurological, congenital or linked to internal pathology. These studies must prepare the "MACCS" for the knowledge of rehabilitation in children and adults as much on a functional as on a social and professional level (including pain treatment and rehabilitation). To this is added a complementary training session in the domain of pulmonary and/or cardiac rehabilitation. The inter-university sessions amount to 30 hours a year, 4 hours of which are on algology.
An intra-university course consisting of :
MEFY2120 Réhabilitation motrice et compléments de médecine physique[15h] (in French) Léon Plaghki
• Supervised practical exercices (30 hours per year).
• Attendance of the Physical and Rehabilitation Medecine lectures linked to the approved apprenticeship periods. (see subjets within the different domains of Physical and Rehabilitation Medecine linked to the above speciality), to be certified in the training report notes (30 hours per year).
• Attendance, each year, of lectures in other specialities (neuro-locomotor, radiology, cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation and pediatric rehabilititation, also including 10 hours of algology (anaesthestics, psychiatry, etc..) to be certified in the training report notes (30 hours per year).
The theoretical sessions of the first two years form part of the specific university training programme (FUS, in French).
Second part
After the first 2 years, the " MACCS" will continue his studies including, among other activities :
• Attendance of further training seminars in Physical and Rehabilitation Medecine (to be certified in the course report notes).
• Attendance of national and international scientific meetings.
• Active annual participation in at least one intra-university seminar.
• The writing of a scientific article to be presented at the end of the 4th year and accepted for publication as the principal author in the 5th year, either for a journal with a peer review representative of the speciality or an annex speciality (orthopaedics, neurology, rheumatology...), or indexed in the Medline. In the case of a journal not indexed in the Medline, prior approval must be obtained from the academic supervisor of the master's programme.
• The teaching Committee recommends the taking of the European Board exam in the speciality.
