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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.
3 weeks of blended learning
The first week is a part-time online course with online lessons, discussions and quizzes and self-study activities. The two following weeks are a clinical stay at the Danish Headache Center, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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 (E-learning)
20 October - 7 November 2025 (Clinical)
Group 2:
5-9 January 2026 (E-learning)
12-30 January 2026 (Clinical)
The course is available only every second year
Examination
Please find the exam dates in the exam plan.
You can find further information about the course and the exam in the course curriculum.
See an overview of all courses on Master of Headache Disorders.
Learning outcomes
During the course you will:
- Gain insight into work at an internationally recognized headache centre.
- Strengthen your knowledge about rare types of headache and patients with severe symptoms accompanied by marked comorbidity or treatment resistance.
- Acquire data, knowledge about invasive treatment strategies, and knowledge about communicating and teaching about headache disorders.
- Be able to evaluate treatment strategies and make the optimal diagnoses of patients with rare and difficult to treat headache disorders.
- Learn to initiate follow up programs, suggest treatment adjustment over time and assess and critically present cases and scientific articles about treatment and multidisciplinary intervention.
- Be able to initiate and administer GON-blocks and treatment with Botulinum toxin in relevant patients.
On completion of the course, you should be able to optimize the diagnostic and therapeutic process of rare headache disorders and patients with severe symptoms, and contribute to future teaching, communication and research in interdisciplinary treatment. Lastly, you should be able to initiate new organizational measures and to develop national and international treatment guidelines on scientific basis.
Admission criteria
Continuing professional development for health care professionals working in the field of headaches
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 is entitled to a subsidised tuition fee, due to EU legislation, hence the difference in price.
Contact
Christine Gulstad
Study Administration Officer
master@sund.ku.dk
Tel.: +45 35 32 12 73
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.