Nurse & Allied Health Care Professionals

Programme Description

ECTRIMS offers a Professional Training Fellowship Programme for nurses, psychologists, physiotherapists, and related allied health care professionals to obtain or expand their expertise in MS through practical experience and training in a mentored MS environment in Europe. Our aim is to enhance the care and support of individuals with MS by fostering improved clinical care and education and by helping to promote best practices in MS care throughout Europe.

Multiple fellowships may be awarded each year. If you are looking for a suitable host in the rehabilitation domain, you can contact: www.eurims.org/RIMS-Administration.html.

The submission process for the 2023 Fellowship Programme is now closed. The application season for the 2024 programme will begin in mid-2023.

Key Information

For recipients of advanced degrees (RN, PhD, OT, PT, etc) in allied health professions who wish to obtain mentored clinical and/or research training related to multiple sclerosis
Funded fellowships in a European laboratory or clinic with flexible durations up to one year
Citizens of any country are eligible to apply to this programme, however, the training must be undertaken in a European institution of clinic
For European candidates, the training institution may be in the same city or country as the candidate’s home institution; fellows wishing to train in a different city or different European country are encouraged, so long as language and any professional licensing requirements do not present barriers to a successful training period.
The application requires documents from the candidate, the proposed mentor and the proposed host training institute, as well as other professional referees
Successful fellows and their mentors will be asked to provide progress and financial accounting reports at the end of the fellowship period
Application period: 1 July through 1 December 2022

Download the programme description

Meet our 2022 Nursing & AHP Fellowship Recipient

Name: Lorena Lopez-Rayes
Host Institution: Hospital Universitari Vall D’Hebron; Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalunya (Cemcat)
Area of study: Intervention for nursing preconception counseling to women with multiple sclerosis

For a list of past fellows please click here.

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