Academy of pulmonary rehabilitation – advanced

Course format

• Part 1 (Online):
  • Live streamed lectures
  • Case report presentations
  • Discussion and Q&A
• Part 2 (Vienna, Austria): Skills workshops
  • Taking place at the ERS Congress in Vienna, Austria on Saturday 7 September, 2024.
  • Participants are not required to purchase a Congress registration to attend Part 2 as a day pass will be provided to attend the skills workshop.
    • The day pass does not give access to Congress sessions. Participants attending Congress sessions must purchase a Congress registration.
  • The skills workshops will not be live streamed.

Please note that all timings are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Recordings of each session will be made available to registered participants after the event, with the exception of the on-site workshop sessions.

Learning outcomes

Following this course, participants will be able to:

• Improve access to and delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation services.
• Implement various components for patient assessment and delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation.
• Appreciate the value of novel models of pulmonary rehabilitation and methods for assessing relevant outcomes in the pulmonary rehabilitation setting.
• Deliver pulmonary rehabilitation to different respiratory diseases and to respiratory patients with comorbidities.
• Implement adjunct interventions to optimise the benefit of pulmonary rehabilitation.
• Implement maintenance strategies to preserve the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation.
• Perform clinical assessment and deliver a range of exercise training modalities.

Target audience

• Clinicians
• Respiratory physiologists
• Respiratory therapists
• Research fellows
• Physiotherapists
• Occupational therapists
• Psychologists
• Nutritionists
• Nurses
• Social workers and carers
• Healthcare managers
• Exercise physiologists and occupational therapists
• Trainees in the above specialties

Accreditation

This event has been accredited with the Mark of Excellence by the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology (EBAP) with a total of 20.5 CME credits.

Part 1: 16 CME credits

• The number of credits that you will receive will correspond to the time you spend viewing the sessions live.

Part 2: 4.5 CME credits

• The number of credits that you will receive corresponds to your attendance during the skills workshop. Please note that you need to sign the register of attendance to ensure that you receive the correct amount of CME credits.