UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE, ARTS & TECHNOLOGY USAT - MONTSERRAT COLLEGE OF

MEDICINE

MONTSERRAT-BRITISH WEST INDIES

D.O to B.Sc. in Osteopathy / Osteopathic Medicine

CONVERSION COURSE

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D.O. (DIPLOMA in OSTEOPATHY) GRADUATES OF I.T.S. PORTUGAL

+ 3 FULL PROFESSIONAL SEMINARS (DESIGNED)

+ GRADUATION THESIS (PUBLIC DEFENSE AND APPROVAL)

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FEE: 1.200€ (EXCLUDING GRADUATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS)

All graduates will became students of the USAT-MONTSERRAT COLLEGE of MEDICINE

A Thesis Director-Tutor will be assigned once 3 professional seminars became completed

Once approved the subject of the Research Work, this will be completed in the period determined prior to Jury designation and
Thesis public sustain and defense

Once the students completed all the requirements they will receive the official USAT Degree of:

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

(OSTEOPATHY) / (OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE)

+Official Transcript containing:

180 ECTS (FROM THE ITS ORIGINAL COURSE VALIDATED)

+30 ECTS from the 3 PROFESSIONAL SEMINARS

+ECTS corresponding to THESIS*

*including Thesis Qualification obtained and Jury

(USAT B.Sc. degree will qualify you to access to M.Sc. and other Higher Education Degrees including Ph.D.)

© USAT 2010

All candidates must be validated and approved by University and registration will be confirmed to the student via ITS before any activity or seminar will be taken.

Withdrawal from the course for any reason (including those disciplinary) will not be subject to refund.

Cancellation prior to Course start will be refunded with a retention of 25 % of the fee in concept of Administration costs and other incurred as it´s stated in our
cancellation policy.

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http://www.itsaude.com/

Address:

AV. António Augusto de Aguiar, no. 9-4

1300-365-Lisbon-Portugal

Rua Formosa, 135-2nd 4000 Porto

Email:

itsaude@hotmail.com
cursos@itsaude.com

Tel/Fax:

Lisbon-213 304 698/216 092 085

Porto-222 087 453

Who we are (ITS) INSTITUTO DE TECNICAS DA SAUDE

We are an institution accredited by the Portuguese State in the area of health,

which started its operation in 1996 to vocational training courses in Osteopathic
Manipulative Therapies, and teachers of teachers of Higher Institute of Osteopathy
Courses of Oxford Brookes University studying in Portugal from 1998 to 2005,
under the direction and coordination of Prof. Dr. Borges de Sousa.

This working group with 26 years experience in the formation of osteopaths is

supplemented with teachers of schools of osteopathy in Surrey Osteopathic
Schools from France and Italy.

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We are and have always been, the largest school of osteopathy in Portugal, with
appropriate facilities for semester, with Laboratory, room research and library with
over 800 books, so that students can see and study the materials.

Mission

Adding value to healthcare professionals, giving them up-to-date knowledge in

order to achieve an optimal professional level for a better service to clients. The
training strategy of ITS part of the experience of years of education, aimed at
consolidating the formative project based in six areas:

 Contribute to the development of young people, giving them skills for

employability;

 Allow health professionals a new niche market;

 Provide theoretical and practical foundations for careers;

 Allow the acquisition of technical skills more adapted to the new socio-
economic realities, generational and health;

 Meet the needs of vocational training institutions are deployed in the

Portuguese market;

 Prepare professionals according to models of training and education for use

in the United States and England-téorico with intense practice exercise.

Objectives

Has as its aim, as a policy and strategy as follows:

1. As Association aims to cohesion, protection, training of Osteopaths and

issuing Ballots Professionals; to their members.

2. As a strategy of its objects:

1. education, vocational training and in particular of young people

looking for their first job, unemployed or assets that are in need of
training;

2. as part of its activities, and to achieve its ends, works within the
framework of ITS Training centre with the name of the College for
the training of Osteopaths;

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 3. For achievement of its business activities, and to make more efficient the
practice of formation in the structure of ITS works a internship Center
named Centro Social consultations and Treatments of Osteopathy, being
essential for the preparation of professional osteopaths ...

What we think

Internship training in Osteopathy

The ITS believes that students should be given an internship with careful
supervision for the purpose that the new Osteopath have an adequate technical
preparation to become a professional Osteopath qualified.

To treat patients that students using treatments exclusively osteopathic

techniques, under the supervision of qualified advisors are Osteopaths superior
Courses with UK Osteopathy, giving the part tutorial, teaching students how to
make the query such as organizes clinical data, such as reasons to get an
osteopathic diagnosis, and learns to do the prognosis for after knowing the
treatment for their patients.

The ITS is the only institution in Portugal with Clinic for Stages, so that your pupils
in Manipulative Therapies and Osteopathy or ITS members can work as an intern
at the end of the course, giving the new professional assurance and confidence to
have an ability to be trained in Osteopathy.

Location in Lisbon in AV. António Augusto de Aguiar, no. 9, offers, free of charge
to needy population Portuguese without financial resources, one of the best
therapies for joint pain including the spine and spinal muscular problems that is
osteopathy.

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 Advanced course of Osteopathy

Classes from daytime and evening

Entrance Requirement: year 12 or equivalent

We have 26 years of experience in the formation of Osteopaths in Portugal, being much of our teachers teachers
of schools of Osteopathy from England, France and Italy.

By joint decree No 327/2004 of the MINISTRIES OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION and MINISTRY
OF HEALTH, consider that the LAW Nº 45/2003 of 22 August, establishes the framework for activities of Osteopathy
in Ministry of health.

WHAT IS OSTEOPATHY?

OSTEOPATHY is a manual therapy, health care, founded in 1890 by the American doctor Dr Andrew Taylor Still, and
identified as a "complete system" therapy, having regard to the origin of the disease, with a specific diagnosis and
therapy feature, different from any other type of therapy-osteopathy, manipulations, restoring balance and heal the
human organism.

OBJECTIVES

Allow young people to a new profession in health, osteopathy, second models used in England, Australia, South
Africa and New Zealand, to form professional Osteopaths, allowing more labor market with new technologies in
health more adapted to the new socio-economic currents.

STRUCTURE

The course runs for a period of 4 years and 3 years and over: an internship with supervision, with the purpose of the
Osteopaths have an adequate preparation technique and code of ethics to be an OSTEOPATH QUALIFIED.

Faculty: ones are teachers of schools of Osteopathy of England, other licensees, master’s and doctorate degrees
from foreign universities.

Director: Dr. Borges de Sousa, who deployed and developed the osteopathy in Portugal, as director of the Top
Courses in Osteopathy, in Lisbon, Oxford Brookes University from 1996 to 2005.

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 Faculty / Teachers

Osteopaths

Prof. Dr. Mário Alberto Borges de Sousa

Prof. Dr. e. Lederman

Prof. Dr. Laurence Charles Butler

Prof. Dr. Jorge Esteves

Dra. Valeria Ferreira

Dr. Jean Pierre Hyspa

Dr. José Kunzler

Dr. Jean Pierre Hyspa

Dr. Vasco Lopes da Silva

Dr. Jorge Miguel Steps Nunes

Dr. Sérgio e. c. de Sousa de Lucena

Dr. Nuno Barreto

Dra. Sofia Martins Milhano

Prof. Tiago Correia

Prof. José Talefe

Prof. Carlos Filipe Loureiro Raposo

Doctors

Dra. Ana Reinas

Dr.Jorge Indiveri

Dra. Inês r.b.da Peter Grace

Dr. Leandro Azevedo

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Other Health technicians

Dra. Maria João Lupi

Dra. Eunice Santos

Dr. Pedro Nunes

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 CURRICULUM AND COURSE STRUCTURE

1. YEAR-1st half

1. Semester T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Anatomophysiology I 48 42 30 3 123 4.92

Soft tissue techniques 20 100 30 6 156 6.24

Osteopathy I 24 24 15 3 66 2.64

Microbiology/ 48 30 3 81 3.24

Immunology

Introduction to diagnosis 30 9 39 3 81 3.24

Another Osteopathic College

Total 170 175 144 507 20.28

1. YEAR-2nd half

2. Half T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Anatomophysiology II 48 42 30 3 123 4.92

Soft tissue techniques 20 100 30 6 156 6.24

Osteopathy I 24 30 3 57 2.28

Biomechanics 24 24 30 3 81 3.24

Musculoskeletal assessment tests 36 36 30 3 105 4.20

Stage level I * 30

Total 128 226 150 522 20.88

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2. YEAR-1st half

1. Semester T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Physiopathology clinical 24 30 3 57 2.28

Clinical neurophysiology 48 30 6 84 3.36

Osteopathy II 8 40 30 3 81 3.24

Clinical Psychology 24 30 3 57 2.28

Biochemistry/ 48 30 3 81 3.24

Pharmacology

Stage level I * 120

Total 152 40 150 360 14.40

2. YEAR-2nd half

2. Half T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Physiopathology clinical 24 40 3 67 2.68

Neuromuscular Physiology 48 40 6 94 3.76

Osteopathy II 20 124 45 6 195 7.80

Semiology/diagnostic methods 72 40 3 115 4.60

Stage level I * 120

Total 164 124 165 471 18.84

3. YEAR-1st half

1. Semester T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Image 24 30 3 57 2.28

Osteopathic Clinic 20 100 30 6 156 6.24

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 Pediatric Osteopathy 48 30 6 84 4.80

Orthopedics/Traumatology/Rheumatology 72 45 3 123 4.92

Stage level II * 120

Total 164 100 135 417 16.68

3. YEAR-2nd half

2. Half T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Research and data analysis 24 30 6 60 2.40

Nutrition 24 30 3 57 2.28

Introduction Profession 24 20 3 47 1.88

Bioethics and Health 24 20 3 47 1.88

Radiologist 48 30 3 81 3.24

Osteopathic Clinic 120 20 6 146 5.84

Stage level II * 120

Total 96 168 150 438 17.52

4. YEAR-1st half

1. Semester T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Osteopathic Clinic 150 48 100 3 301 12.04

Stage level IV * 120

Total 150 48 100 301 12.04

4. YEAR-2nd half

2. Half T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Work Research 100 50 100 6 256 10.24

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 Osteopathic Clinic 120 100 8 228 9.12

(Clinical case)

Stage level IV * 120

Total 220 50 200 484 19.36

T TP PL OT THE H ETCS

Seminars 28

Contact hours – 23150h

His tutorial link – 1185h Hours orientation

Internship Hours – 1 h

Seminars – 20

Hourly Load 4,500 hours/ETCS 180

CERTIFICATE OF PROFESSIONAL FORMAçÂO

Regulatory Decree No 35/2002 (Diário da República nº 95, series I-B, 23 April)

DIPLOMA IN OSTEOPATHY (D.O.)

SPECIALIZATION COURSES:

-Osteopathy Visceral

-Pediatric Osteopathy

-Sports Osteopathy

Graduates at ITS may register in PORTUGUESE FEDERATION OF OSTEOPATHS (FPO) for:

PROFESSIONAL registration

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