Teaching Format:

Lessons are delivered in a blended format (partly online and partly in person), concentrated over one weekend per month (March, April, May, June, September, October, November, and December).

Registration is open from November 10, 2025

Topics:

  • Introductory lessons (crenotherapy and thermal treatments, classification of thermal waters and peloids, the maturation process)
  • Techniques for applying thermal treatment
  • Experience of a thermal medicine physician, medical responsibility in the thermal setting, and informed consent
  • Use of thermal treatments in Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT), respiratory, dermatological, rheumatic, and vascular diseases
  • In-depth focus: endotympanic insufflations
  • Inhalation therapy and management of antibiotic treatment
  • Post-COVID syndrome: Thermal spas as local recovery centers
  • Thermal treatments and musculoskeletal rehabilitation
  • Thermal respiratory rehabilitation
  • Atopic dermatitis: perceived issues, new treatment possibilities, and educational therapy
  • Lymphedema according to guidelines; Lymphedema in thermal settings
  • Epidemiological methodology
  • Scientific research in thermal centers
  • Thermal establishments: administrative concessions on natural resources and criteria for treatment delivery