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Training and Mobility Programme
Coordinator: Ángel Pazos Carro (Universidad de Cantabria)
The CIBERSAM has since its beginnings given a Training Programme which sets out to be a reference in the
training in mental health in this country.
The backbone of this Programme is the Official Master Course on Initiation to Mental Health, which started to be given in academic year 2013-2014. As well as the Master course, the possibility of financing is considered for attendance at other courses connected with different areas of work, preferably the ones offered by the CIBERSAM. Research stays are also financed at other CIBERSAM Units, at other CIBERs, or abroad.
The Master Course on Initiation to Mental Health is an inter-university programme offered by the Complutense, Barcelona, Autónoma de Barcelona, Cadiz and Cantabria Universities and is coordinated by the latter. 11 CIBERSAM groups officially participate in the teaching and a further 6 are indirectly involved.
The Master Programme (worth 60 credits) is characterised by having a major virtual component as well as through the required practical stays, of both clinical and basic nature. It tackles both aspects of research foundations and the neurobiological bases and diagnostic, clinical and therapeutic approaches.
In 2016 all the courses for the second four-month term of the third edition (2015-2016) were given. In the last quarter of the year the first subjects of the fourth edition also started to be taught, in-class and online teaching.
There are 37 students enrolled for this fourth edition, currently under way. They come from all over Spain, with 3 students from abroad, all with different training profiles (medicine, psychology, biology, etc.).
As regards financing from the Programme, CIBERSAM has agreed to reserve a significant part of its Training budget for partial financing of researchers’ participation in the Master. In its third edition, a total number of 3 groups benefitted from the partial grant for the enrolment fee, while in the fourth edition 4 groups were beneficiaries.
Aside from the Master, the Training Programme has financed 20 attendances at a total number of 14 training activities and courses for members of the CIBERSAM. 18 of these took place in Spain (9 at courses directed by its groups) and 2 abroad. The large numbers attending Intensive Courses on Introduction to Neurosciences and the Ideas Laboratory should be stressed.
4 stays were furthermore financed for CIBERSAM members, 3 in Spain (at other CIBER groups) and the rest abroad.
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