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The European Stroke Master Programme has been developed by the Stroke Center at the University Hospital Bern in close collaboration with the European Stroke Organisation. The programme aims to train the next generation of clinicians and researchers in stroke care throughout Europe.

The purpose of the programme is to cover the entire field of stroke medicine, ranging from basic knowledge in pathophysiology, acute management of ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, primary and secondary prevention to neurorehabilitation. In addition, a research focus is maintained throughout all lectures, workshop and seminars, covering all aspects of basic, translational and clinical stroke research. An international faculty of world leading stroke experts will provide lectures, seminars and workshops in close collaboration with the local faculty at the ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥.

The programme covers five semesters and is structured in nine modules and a master thesis. It consists of 3 weeks of face-to-face teaching at the University Hospital Bern with intensive on-site learning courses and hands-on training. Other parts of the programme will be achieved by distance learning. The ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥ will provide an all-in-one Learning Platform, offering an exceptional learning expertise. This learning platform will enable students to participate at lectures, workshops and webinars, to interact with the programme coordinators and the faculty, to access the online library with teaching material, videos, guidelines and scientific articles. Furthermore, participants will create a “Stroke Literature and News Wiki”, which will be connected to the Stroke Guideline App and will be open to the whole stroke community. Practical experiences will be gained at established stroke centers throughout Europe with internships of 3 weeks.

This postgraduate course is offered to meet the demands of the increased incidence of stroke across Europe and to enable the harmonization of knowledge about diagnosis and therapy of stroke on an evidence-based basis. The need for medical doctors in the field of stroke medicine to have theoretical knowledge and practical skills on the topics of prevention, acute treatment, rehabilitation and the follow-up treatment of patients is steadily growing. This programme will not only enable the participants to advance scientifically but ultimately help them leading a unit for stroke medicine or to take on a managerial function.

Department of Neurology of the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital

In addition to professional experience in neuroscience, the prerequisites for admission to this programme are:

• a university degree at the level of a master’s degree in medicine or psychology or
• a university degree at the master’s level in a field of health sciences or
• a university degree at the master's level in natural or engineering sciences.

The programme committee specifies these requirements.

Exceptions to the admission requirements may be approved by the programme committee “sur dossier”. In the case of people without a university degree or professional experience, the programme committee may impose further conditions for admission in order to ensure that they can successfully complete the course.

Interested parties who wish to attend only individual modules may be admitted, provided that there are free places on the course.

The programme committee decides on admission to the course at the request of the study management. There is no entitlement to admission.

We offer scholarships in variable amounts. To be considered for scholarships, all requested documents must be uploaded during the registration process or sent to info@strokemaster.ch.

• Personally signed letter of motivation (with reference to current occupation, two pages maximum) with current date
• Letter of recommendation from your current employer; the letter must have letterhead, a signature and must be of current date
• List of publications (if available)
• Proof that the remaining amount can be paid

The selection of the scholarship recipients will be made after the registration window has closed.

ESO scholarships:

The European Stroke Organisation offers different scholarship types:

• Low- or middle income countries: 3 partial scholarships (CHF 15'000)
• High-income countries: 3 partial scholarships (CHF 5'000)

To be considered for an ESO scholarship, please read te ESO scholarship information for MAS in Stroke Medicine programme.

Industry scholarships:

There is the possibility that industry partners will also provide scholarships. We do not know yet, how many scholarships and to which amount we will be able to offer industry scholarships.