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Overview

The EUROSPINE Diploma in Interprofessional Spine Care (EDISC) is a new education initiative and aimed at developing expertise and empowering spine care professionals of all specialties.

EDISC is EPIC!
Evidence-based
People-centred
Interprofessional
Collaborative

This people-centred education activity, developed by an interprofessional team of experts with guidance from medical education specialists promotes collaborative care using evidence-based best practice to improve patient outcomes.

EDISC will be delivered online!

Task Force members

Target Audience

• Healthcare professionals in Europe in order of availability and access: primary care physicians and surgeons involved in spine care, physiotherapist, chiropractors, osteopaths, occupational therapists, clinical psycholoigists, nursing practitioners, naprapath and others who are graduated as clinicians from a recognized institution (i.e. professional school or university).
• At least two years of clinical experience is recommended but all new graduates are encouraged to register.

Learning outcomes

There is a need to provide health care practitioners engaged in non-surgical care with an interprofessional harmonised and evidence-based curriculum on patient-centred collaborative care.

Obtain the EUROSPINE Diploma in Interprofessional Spine Care (EDISC)

The EDISC Diploma can be obtained by completing 7 modules over a period of three years.

The EDISC programme is built sequentially starting with module 1 and ending with module 7.

After each completed module, continuous medical education (CME) credits and certificate are awarded. If the learner participates only in certain modules, modules in this case can be taken in a non-sequential way.

EDISC will be delivered online!

All 7 modules will be delivered online.

The following modules will be delivered:

EDISC Module 1: Using literature to inform my practice (core skills 1)
EDISC Module 2: An interprofessional approach to spine care (core skills 2)
EDISC Module 3: Communication and consultation skills (core skills 3)
EDISC Module 4: Assessment, diagnosis and management of spinal pain
EDISC Module 5: The aging patient seeking spine care
EDISC Module 6: Spinal deformities - Scoliosis during growth & other deformities across the life course
EDISC Module 7: Management and prevention of disability

For more information and preliminary programmes, please visit:

EDISC Interprofessional Courses

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