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Clinical Course at a Specialized Headache Center
Meet real life patients and learn how to obtain correct diagnosis, how to interview and inform patients, how to make an optimal management plan, and how to follow up on these patients.
This course is a part of
All aspects including the role of physiotherapists, nurses, secretaries and psychologists will be covered and you will get hands on experience with injections of botulinum toxin and greater occipital nerve blockades.
The course is organized as a combination of hands on management of patients and lectures, which will be mainly cased based. The course will include homework, where you will have to prepare clinically oriented presentations. At the end you will have learned how a multidisciplinary tertiary headache centre managing complex headache patients is organized and how to put previously acquired theory into practice.
Topics
- Participation in patient interviews, examinations, follow up-visits and prevention strategies.
- Interdisciplinary treatments as well as patient communication.
- Instructions and strategic discussions with patients and relatives.
- Case demonstrations, lectures and clinical training in a pediatric headache center.
- Hands-on demonstration and practise of injections of botulinum toxin, and hands-on demonstration and practise of greater occipital nerve blockades.
4 weeks of blended learning
The first week is a part-time online course with online lessons, discussions and quizzes and self-study activities. The three following weeks are a clinical stay at the Danish Headache Center, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For more details about the course, please refer to the course curriculum.
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It is a fabulous opportunity for all of us in headache medicine to present case studies and rigorous discussions about investigations, diagnoses, and treatment options.
Course director on »Clinical Course at a Specialized Headache Center«
Lars BendtsenAssociate Professor, MD, PhD, Dr.Med.Sci |
Course details for »Clinical Course at a Specialized Headache Center«
Dates and examination
Course dates
Group 1:
13–17 October 2025 – online
20 October–7 November 2025 – clinical stay
Group 2:
5–9 January 2026 – online
12–30 January 2026 – clinical stay
The course is available every other year.
Examination
Please find the exam dates in the exam plan.
Learning outcomes
On completion of the course, you will:
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have insight into working in an internationally recognised headache centre
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have deepened your knowledge of rare headache types and severe, treatment-resistant cases
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be able to administer GON-blocks, botulinum toxin, and other invasive treatments
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be capable of initiating interdisciplinary treatments and designing follow-up programmes with treatment adjustments
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be able to contribute to teaching, research, and the development of international treatment guidelines.
Admission criteria
You must meet the following criteria to be admitted to this course:
- Hold a relevant bachelor degree or equivalent.
- Have a minimum 2 years of relevant job experience.
- Be proficient in English.
Find detailed information in the admission criteria on Master of Headache Disorders
Priority is given to enrolled students
This course is offered as a compulsory course on the Master of Headache Disorders programme. Priority is given to students already enrolled. Once the enrolled students have been admitted to the course, the remaining seats are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tuition fees
EU/EEA citizens
15,000 DKK
Non-EU/EEA citizens
22,000 DKK
Citizens of the EU, EEA, or Switzerland are eligible for a subsidised tuition fee in accordance with EU legislation, which accounts for the difference in pricing.
More information
All course information is available in the course curriculum:Place
The Danish Headache Center
Rigshospitalet - Glostrup
Valdemar Hansens Vej 5
2600 Glostrup
Denmark
Lars Bendtsen
Associate Professor, MD, PhD, Dr.Med.Sci
Lars Bendtsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Neurology and Danish Headache Center, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, University of Copenhagen.
Dr. Bendtsen received his Ph.D. and Dr.Med.Sci. degrees at the University of Copenhagen. He has actively been involved in headache research since 1991 and has authored over 140 papers and book chapters on headache topics. Dr. Bendtsen is the recipient of the 1997 Glaxo Wellcome Research Prize, 2000 Danish Headache Society Prize for scientific achievements, 2001 Danish Neurological Society’s Roche Prize and 2015 Seymour Diamond Lectureship Award for scientific achievements in neurology. He is past President of the Danish Headache Society.
Dr. Bendtsen is currently co-director of The Danish Headache Centre. His main research interest includes clinical aspects and treatment of migraine and headache in general and more specifically the pathophysiology and management of tension-type headache, medication-overuse headache and trigeminal neuralgia.