This program in Spinal Surgery is one of the most demanded, due to the high percentage of people who suffer from back pathologies"

There is an increasing tendency towards sub-specialization within the medical-surgical specialities. There are so many different systems in the human body that it is difficult to be up to date in the knowledge of a speciality as broad as Spinal Surgery. Hence, the need for a complete and high-quality scientific program to help and guide in this specific and exciting field.

With this professional master’s degree, the student will have a complete vision of the knowledge of the Pathology of the Vertebral Column. The program will highlight advances in surgical practice that directly affect patients' quality of life and improvement of pain. This information will be transmitted so that the students can have the most up-to date vision possible of the knowledge that exists on the subject. For this purpose, experts in Spinal Surgery from Spain and South America will be collaborating with us. 

The professional master’s degree in Spinal Surgery will teach both the classic and usual practices used in the Specialized Surgery Centers, as well as the surgical techniques that are currently setting trends in this sector. This will allow the student, in addition to broadening their personal knowledge, to be able to apply it with greater confidence and skill in making decisions in their daily clinical practice.

All aspects of the practice of Spinal Surgery, with a global vision of the care of the affected patient, in the most complete professional master’s degree in the online teaching market"

This professional master’s degree in Spinal Surgery contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features:

• Theoretical multimedia content throughout the Professional Master's Degree, developed with the latest educational technologies, accessible at all times
• Video lessons on the different pathologies, as well as surgeries will be shown
• Practical workshops in which clinical cases of daily practice are developed, which will help in decision-making, through diagnostic and treatment algorithms
• Practical cases that will serve as self-assessment and will mark the progress of the students’ knowledge
• Online surgical procedures, performed in the daily practice of these advances, live or previously recorded
• Theoretical lessons, via videoconference, with the possibility of participating in a discussion forum to comment and clarify doubts}
• Chats for consultation of doubts about clinical cases with the students participating in the program
• Possibility to interact with the teachers of the Professional Master’s Degree and to solve in a simulated environment, pathologies that arise in their daily practice
• Review of all the classic techniques that have not changed the way they work, and are the basis of the knowledge to come
• Approach of the latest trends in Minimally Invasive Surgery; robotics; simulation; new fusion materials, and all those working tools that contribute to the advancement and development of this specialty

You will learn the latest trends in Spinal Surgery, which will allow you to advance in the daily practice of this specialty"

Its teaching staff is comprised of prestigious and renowned health professionals with a long career in the sector. Teaching staff of the professional master’s degree will include prominent members of the Spanish Spine Society (GEER), who teach at numerous universities throughout the country and work in both public and private hospitals. Distinguished specialists in Spinal Surgery, who have developed their speciality in different countries of Latin America, will also participate in the event.

The methodological design of this professional master’s degree, developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in e-learning, integrates the latest advances in educational technology for the creation of numerous multimedia tools, which allow the professional to face the real-life situations. These will enable you to advance by both acquiring knowledge and developing new skills in your future professional work. 

The contents created for this professional master’s degree, as well as the videos, self-tests, real cases and modular exams, have been thoroughly reviewed, updated and integrated by the professors and the team of experts that make up the working group, in order to provide, in a gradual and didactic manner, a learning process that allows the objectives of the teaching program to be achieved. 

You will have the latest multimedia tools, designed by experts in Spinal Surgery, which will favor the speed of assimilation and learning"

This program is based on the latest advances in educational technology, based on e-learning methodology"

The main objective of the TECH Technological University is the acquisition of the most up-to-date and innovative scientific knowledge in the area of Spinal Surgery, from the hand of leading specialists. This will allow you to develop the skills that will turn your daily clinical practice into a bastion of the standards of the best available scientific evidence, with a critical, innovative, multidisciplinary and integrative sense.

At the end of this professional master’s degree, you will have the necessary scientific skills to perform the tasks of a Spinal Surgery specialist"

General objectives

• Establish biological, biomechanical, indication, procedural and outcome analysis of results in Spinal Fusion
• Learn the surgical steps of the cervical surgical procedure
• Assess the patient's spine correctly and effectively
• Know how to recognize those pathologies that represent a serious and urgent disease and may compromise the life or functionality of a patient
• Know the current options in the management of spinal tumor through decision-making processes, therapeutic planning, surgical techniques and perioperative care
• Analyze the classifications of primary tumors, as well as the importance of obtaining the correct biopsy
• Get to know about the management of vertebral metastases
• Correctly select and interpret the most appropriate radiographic, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of traumatic spinal injuries
• Analyze the appropriate plan to prevent complications of spinal cord trauma
• Gain knowledge about the main complications that occur in Minimally Invasive Surgery in elderly patients
• Learn what are the neurological complications in spine surgery

Specific objectives 

Module 1. Surgical Approaches to the Spine

• Gain knowledge about the anatomical areas of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine, as well as their surgical approaches
• Know the anatomy of the usual sites of access to the spine by Minimally Invasive Techniques

Module 2. Cervical Spine Pathologies

• Describe the surgical steps of the surgical procedure
• Establish the surgical differences between box fusion and the use of prosthetic discs
• Get to know the tricks and risks of decompression of the spinal canal and foramina
• Identify tricks and risks in the installation of anterior plates
• Know the techniques of cervical total disc replacement, posterior to lumbar
• Knowledge of vertebral fractures, which in the cervical territory involve great danger to the patient's life, and are sometimes difficult to detect
• Differentiate Posterior Fixation Systems (screws to lateral masses and screws to C1 and C2 or posterior craniocervical fusions)

Module 3. Herniated Discs, Diagnosis and Treatment of Radicular Pain. Emerging Technologies for the Treatment of Low Back Pain

• Explain the impact of spinal disorders and problems on each individual in particular and on society in general
• Assess the spine of patients in a correct and effective way, for a better understanding of the problems they suffer and to favor their better resolution
• Know how to recognize those pathologies that represent a serious and urgent disease for the patient and may compromise their lives or functionality
• Know how to formulate appropriate action plans for early and simple management of these serious spinal problems in the emergency department, based on sound treatment principles
• Demonstrate solid clinical judgment in the therapeutic management of these patients based on selected cases
• Discuss multidisciplinary approaches and the role of conservative treatment in patients with chronic low back pain
• Explain the role of Evidence-Based Medicine and the different registries and diagnostic tests
• Discuss the use of clinical outcome rating scales
• Explain the application and limitations of biomechanics of the lumbar spine in vitro and in finite element models
• Be aware of the advances in Molecular Medicine in the regeneration of the Intervertebral Disc

Module 4. Degenerative Dorsolumbar Pathology Advances

• Learn what lumbar canal stenosis is and its clinical features
• Identify key structures and assess risks related to local vascular and neurological anatomy
• Identify by fluoroscopy the targets for posterior and lateral approaches to the lumbar spine
• Perform a minimally invasive lateral approach to the L2-L3, L3-L4 and L4-L5 discs
• Address the disc using Neuro-monitoring and tubular system
• Know how and when to perform laminectomies and foraminotomies
• Identify entry points for insertion of the pedicle screw
• Prepare the pedicles for insertion of the lumbar pedicle screws
• Learn and review the neural anatomy of the lumbar spine
• Convert the approach to a mini lumbotomy and access to the disc by rejection of the psoas muscle
• Perform a facetectomy, prepare the intervertebral disc and vertebral plates
• Performance of discectomy
• Insert Intersomatic Boxes
• Gain knowledge about the advances in the design of new fixation and interbody implants

Module 5. Advances in Vertebral Deformities Treatment

• Learn the diagnosis and treatment of coronal and sagittal spinal deformities
• Know the types of scoliosis depending on the age of onset
• Identify risk factors and know the diagnostic tests and evolutionary patterns
• Learn conservative therapies for the treatment of scoliosis. The use of corsets and functional therapies
• Gain knowledge about the surgical treatment algorithms of the different scoliosis, taking into consideration the new technologies
• Understand surgical principles and how they apply to each patients needs and expectations
• Know the frequent complications and postoperative management of these patients

Module 6. Spine Tumors

• Gain knowledge about the current options in the management of spine tumors through decision-making processes, therapeutic planning, surgical techniques and perioperative care through knowledge based on scientific evidence
• Attain an understanding of the different primary benign spinal tumors
• Analyze the different current therapeutic options in benign primary tumors of the spine, using the development and presentation of different clinical cases
• Learn about the use of denosumab in giant cell tumors
• Learn the current management of low-grade primary malignant tumors, especially chondrosarcoma and chordoma
• Know the therapeutic options and indications in acute spinal cord compression
• Know the management of vertebral metastases
• Learn the treatment and approach to spinal tumors

Module 7. Advances in Vertebral Fractures Treatment

• Correctly select and interpret the most appropriate radiographic, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of traumatic spinal injuries
• Correctly classify upper cervical C 0-2, cervical subaxial spine, thoracolumbar spine and sacral fractures
• Compare surgical and conservative treatment alternatives for different levels including upper cervical spine C 0-2, subaxial and thoracolumbar and sacral
• Define the special features including vertebral fractures of patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), vertebral osteoporotic fractures and fractures of the immature pediatric spine
• Analyze the appropriate plan to prevent complications of spinal cord trauma
• Describe the characteristics of spinal cord shock and the different spinal cord injury syndromes

Module 8. Advances in Minimally Invasive Surgery

• Learn the minimally invasive techniques by reviewing all of them, from video-assisted surgery and microsurgery to XLIF techniques, including the most implemented TLIF interbody fusion techniques
• Gain knowledge about the need for the assistance of neurophysiology for the guaranteed performance of this type of techniques
• Apply grafting contribution, learning curve or approach to complications
• Know the use of all Minimally Invasive Techniques, anterior, posterior, percutaneous, mini-open
• Know the main complications that occur in Minimally Invasive Techniques

Module 9. Spine Surgery in the Elderly

• Gain knowledge about the surgical complications in minimally invasive surgical procedures in elderly patients
• Learn the problems with instrumentation, such as the consequences of combining weak bone with rigid instrumentation

Module 10. Complications in Spine Surgery Miscellaneous

• Know the advances in the use of new instrumentation, in the improvement of manufacturing materials and in the use of new grafts
• Use the advances in antibiotherapies and in the use of vacuum devices.
• Gain knowledge about the problems of the sacroiliacs

This refresher program will generate a sense of security in the performance of medical practice, and will help you grow professionally"