Appendix 2: Sample format of a 3-day headache course:
Local organization for the study of headache in conjunction with European Headache Federation presents:
Day 1
08.30–10.30 Introduction to headaches
08.30 Welcome and test
08.45 Classification of Headache
09.00 Epidemiology and burden of headache
09.30 Taking the headache history with patient demonstrations (group sessions)
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–13.00 Migraine I
11.00 Classification of migraine
11.30 Pathophysiology of migraine
12.00 Clinical picture of migraine
12.30 Complications of migraine
13.00 Lunch
14.30–16.30 Migraine II
14.30 Patient or video-case demonstrations
15.30–16.00 Comorbidities of migraine
15.30–16.00 Acute drug treatment
16.30–17.00 Coffee break
17.00–18.00 Prophylactic drug treatment
Day 2
08.30–10.30 Tension-type headache (TTH)
08.30 Classification and clinical picture of TTH
09.00 Epidemiology and burden of TTH
09.30 Pathogenesis of TTH
10.00 Comorbidities of TTH
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–13.00 Tension-type headache II
11.00 Pharmacological treatment of TTH
11.30 Non-pharmacological treatment of TTH
12.00 Temporomandibular dysfunction and headache
12.30 Medication-overuse headache
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.30–16.30 Various I
14.30 Patient or video-case demonstrations
15.00 Cervicogenic and other secondary headaches
15.30 Headache in the emergency department
16.00–16.30 Coffee break
16.30–18.00 Various II
16.30 Other primary headaches
17.00 Cranial neuralgias
17.30 Which examinations in headache
Day 3
8.30–10.30 Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs)
08.30 Epidemiology and classification of TACs
09.00 Pathogenesis of TACs
09.30 Clinical picture of TACs with patient or video-case demonstration
10.00 Pharmacological treatment of TACs
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–13.00 TACS II and other
11.00 Paroxysmal hemicrania and other TAC’s: clinical picture, differential diagnosis, and treatment
11.30 Post-traumatic headache, high and low pressure headaches in relation to other secondary headaches: clinical picture, differential diagnosis, and treatment
12.30–13.30 Lunch
14.00–16.30 Various III
14.00 Headache in the elderly: diagnosis and treatment
14.30 Headache in children: diagnosis and treatment
15.00 Headache and reproductive life
15.30–16.30 Test and evaluation