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Editor meeting of New edition of White book in Leuven (Belgium)

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The 30th June and the 1st of July 2017 have been a 2 day meeting of the editors for the revision, based on the suggestions of the member of European Scientific bodies of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. The discussion has been focused in the final writing of the white book to be submitted of the final revision in the perspective of the publication in 2018.

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Editors meeting revising the new white book PRM

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The 16th and 17th Decembre 2016 there is the meeting of the editors of the white book PRM new edition. Good discussion revising the single chapters. The effort is to make a book useful for the health professional, stakeholders and patients.

img_7954-1After this revision the draft will circulate to the delegates and the representative of the European PRM Body in order to share the decisions about the final contents of the book. In March, in Munich, there will be a final consensus conference.

The white book will update all the concept, the history, the clinical practice, the reasearch and curriculm of PRM.

 

Presentation of the New White book PRM Project

Editors

Aims

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  • To describe the work of the PRM specialty and its PRM specialists in:
  • A changing world of health care systems and shrinking resources;
  • Reacting and contributing to medical innovation;
  • Developing strategies to meet the challenge of scientific and technological advances;
  • Dealing with changing perspectives of disability
  • Promoting and facilitating the participation of people with disabilities in everyday life and autonomy
  • Being a didactic reference for PRM practice and academic life to young health professionals (especially medical doctors in training)
  • Having a European perspective.

Summary

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1.Definitions (The concepts and the Specialty)

2.Relevance of Rehabilitation for People with Disabling Conditions and for Society (Why PRM is needed)

3.Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine: an essential first line medical specialty      (The primary need of PRM)

4.Development of the Specialty of PRM in Europe (Where PRM comes from)

5.PRM activities and representation in Europe (How PRM is organized)

6.Fundamentals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (What are the basic principles of PRM)

7.The field of competence of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM in practice)

8.Standards in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM state of the art)

9.Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in Healthcare systems (Place of PRM in the general picture)

10.Science in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (Challenges and specificities of PRM research)

11.The way forward (The future of PRM)

12.Explanations and terminology

Steering Committee