The ISEH is pleased to announce that it is hosting part of the UCL MSc and Diploma in Performing Arts Medicine as from September 2014.
As well as providing world-class sports medicine education, the UK has taken the lead in the field of performing arts medicine education. The MSc and Diploma in Performing Arts Medicine aims to inform those who work with care for this elite and highly specialised group of performance athletes, and equip them with the skills they need to work with performers at the highest level. This qualification, now in its fourth successful year, remains the world’s only Masters programme of its kind. Combining, as it does, the talents of some of the most respected clinicians, researchers and performers in the field as well as experts from the sports medicine arena, it is a programme that is both pioneering and diverse .
The course is designed for practitioners wishing to know more about caring for, treating and rehabilitating performers from the music, vocal and dance disciplines. Modules cover the causes and symptoms of performance-related musculoskeletal disorders; drugs and environmental factors related to health; medical problems of dancers, musicians and professional voice users, areas of performance psychology and neurology; and the practical assessment, wellness and rehabilitation of performers’ injuries.
The programme is a collaboration between the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine, UCL, the Royal College of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and the ISEH. The course tutor and the person responsible for ongoing development, Ian MacDonald, a clinician and performer himself, coordinates a team of internationally renowned speakers. These include Professor Rodney Grahame CBE, Professor Howard Bird, Professor Aaron Williamon, Dr Emma Redding, Barbara Paull, Mr Ian Winspur, Dr Glenn Wilson, Professor Garfield Davies and Dr Alan Watson. The course directors are ISEH Clinical Director Professor Fares Haddad and ISEH consultant Dr Peter Hamlyn.
The course also benefits from regular input from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Ballet; while experts from London’s West End theatres make guest appearances on the course, alongside musicians such as The Prodigy and The Stranglers, dance group the Stylinquents and experts involved in delivering the UK Olympic legacy.
Read more about the course.