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).

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