UEMS PRM Section and Board
This is the official website of the UEMS PRM Section and Board. You will find here all updated information about the activities of the Board and the Section’s Committees
Board
The European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine is a Working Group of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Section of the Union Européenne des Médecins Specialistes (U.E.M.S., European Union of Medical Specialists). It was founded by a separate statute in 1991.
Clinical Affairs
The Clinical Affairs Committee of the UEMS PRM Section focusses on Quality of Care in PRM practice. The Clinical Affairs Committee of the UEMS Section of PRM (CAC) was set up in 2001, at the suggestion of Prof. Veronika Fialka-Moser (Austria).
Professional Practice
The aim of the Professional Practice Committee is to ensure best standards in professional practice of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) in prevention, clinical management and rehabilitation throughout Europe.
Covid-19 and PRM
Useful resources about Covid-19 pandemic and PRM.
Download at this link
Cochrane Rehabilitation REH-COVER
What’s new in our PRM network?
Are you only interested in Congresses & Courses or News?
The Field of Competence of PRM Physicians – Part II
Following the edition of Part One of this e-book in 2014, we are happy today to introduce to all the colleagues of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine the new e-book named as Part Two. This e-book contains a part of the work done the last 4 years (2014-18)...
European Training Requirement for PRM
It is our pleasure to announce that the European Training Requirement (ETR) for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, proposed by the UEMS PRM Section & Board, has been officially approved by the UEMS Council on April 28th and is now available...
INTERNATIONAL ULTRASOUND COURSE 2018
The 8th International Ultrasound Course Euro/Belmusculus will take place at the Ghent University Hospital (Belgium) on October 9 – October 12, 2018. This biennial ultrasound course continues to be a major and anticipated event of musculoskeletal...
EURO-MUSCULUS – IX
This year EURO-MUSCULUS - IX is going to be organized in Milan (2-4 Nov 2018). The 3-day program comprises two simultaneous courses i.e. Basic and Advance. During the initial two days; while the participants will be studying the upper and lower limb joints in the...
Approved the European Training Requirements in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine during the UEMS Council
Today in Marrakesh (Morocco), during the UEMS Council general assembly, the Training Requirements in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine have been approved with 26 votes in favor and one abstention. This approval is a strong step forward the progress of PRM...
3rd Edition of WhiteBook on PRM published
The White Book (WB) of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) in Europe is produced by the 4 European PRM Bodies (European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine – EARM, European Society of PRM – ESPRM, European Union of Medical Specialists – PRM Section, European College of PRM-ECPRM served by the European Union of Medical Specialists-PRM Board) and constitutes the reference book for PRM physicians in Europe. It has now reached its third edition; the first was published in 1989 and the second in 2006/2007. The WB has multiple purposes, including providing a unifying framework for European countries, to inform decision-makers on European and national level, to offer educational material for PRM trainees and physicians and information about PRM to the medical community, other rehabilitation professionals and the public.
IN MEMORIAM OF STEPHEN HAWKING – March, 14th 2018
“…we have a moral duty to remove the barriers to participation, and to invest sufficient funding and expertise to unlock the vast potential of people with disabilities. Governments throughout the world can no longer overlook the hundreds of millions of people with disabilities who are denied access to health, rehabilitation, support, education and employment, and never get the chance to shine.”
(Stephen Hawking, 2011)
Today is a sad day. The world has woken up missing Stephen Hawking.
For those who knew him, it seems hard to believe that the man who coped with a dreadful neurodegenerative disease since the age of 21, for more than 50 years, and succeeded in becoming one of the most authoritative scientists of our time, has eventually surrended to the common destiny of every human being.
For his academic colleagues, and for the readers of his popular books, Stephen Hawking was a recognized and valued genius due to his studies on the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes.
For those who knew the public image disclosed by the networks, he was a disabled person suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, condemned by this progressive disease to the complete paralysis of the limb muscles and of muscles involved in speech, voice production, swallowing and ventilation.
The only picture we have seen, since many years, is a portray of him bound to a wheelchair, supported by special cushions, while looking at the screen of a tablet to communicate with the world through his eye movements.
Thanks to this unique residual movement, he has been able to dictate his books on a virtual keyboard and share with us the content of his brilliant thought.
In Memoriam of Prof. Alex Chantraine
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing away of Prof Alex Chantraine, honorary professor at the University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine.
Newsletter Signup
Signup to our newsletter to receive news and updates from our website.