Continuing Training Course in Physical Activity, Sports and Health (completed)

Professionals in charge

Director: Dr. Matías E. Roby

Co-directors:

• Dr Daniel Stumbo
• Dr. Federico Torrengo

Coordinator: Dr. Pablo Nicolás Gastaldi Taucher

Modality: In‑person

certification: Certification of approval of the Continuing Training Course will be granted.

Target: Physicians, Kinesiologists, Nutritionists, Professors and Graduates in Physical Education, and students in the last year of these degree courses.

Duration: Clock hours and weeks

Workload:

Monthly: Friday from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday from 08:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Universidad de Mendoza), and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Undersecretary of Sports)
Total hourly load: The continuous training course will have 162 total hours, of which 126 hours will be face-to-face and 36 hours online.

Start date and time frequency of the meetings 

9 modules and integrative final exam

2020

13 and 14 March
24 y 25 de abril
And May 29 30
26 27 and June
24 & 25 of July
28 y 29 August
25 and September 26
23 and October 24
20 and 21 November
Integrative final exam

Marriage Proposal
This Continuous Training Course in Physical Activity, Sports and Health is an educational offer from the School of Medical Sciences with the aim of facilitating the training of a critical mass of human resources in the region, providing theoretical bases and practical tools for the correct prescription. activity according to the health status of the population. This course is aimed at Physicians, Kinesiologists, Nutritionists and Teachers and Graduates in Physical Education.

The continuing education course will encourage students to acquire skills in searching for and interpreting scientifically based information, forming interdisciplinary work groups, and recording data in the field for their participation in research in this area of ​​knowledge.

It should be noted that the human being in movement opens a new challenge for the biological sciences related to health.
Most of the bibliographic contributions refer to the organism at rest or in basal conditions. Movement, and particularly sport, pose different challenging instances. This involves each and every one of the biological sciences, such as physiology, anatomy, biomechanics, biochemistry, nutrition, clinic, psychology, neurology, among others.

In today's world, in the last 40 years, campusntarism has increased alarmingly, which has led to an increase in Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases with a consequent rise in health costs without being able to establish truly effective solutions. Their prevention through specific interventions such as improving the practice of physical activity, nutritional culture, optimal rest; constitute the pillars of action to reduce the impact of this scourge in our generation and the subsequent ones.

The biological sciences concur in support of the athlete, they must determine precisely where the limit is between their possibilities and the damage, both at the level of competition and in the adequate prescription of exercise. This must arise from the study of physical aptitudes, the correct evaluation of metabolic capacities, the balance between catabolism and anabolism, a correct nutrition, and a deep neuro-psychoorganic study.

Physical exercise allows you to open new doors in the field of health and primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Despite this, campusntarism and its consequences continue to advance and the "benefits of physical activity are not sufficiently enhanced."

This Continuous Training Course aims for its students to acquire knowledge related to the needs of various population groups, bringing the benefits of physical activity, sport and nutrition to children, young people, older adults, athletes, patients with pathologies of multiple etiology, etc.

Finally, the Continuing Training Course in Physical Activity, Sports and Health aims to develop an interdisciplinary approach that links physical activity with health, and allows its benefits to be achieved at the population level.

Objective

Update professionals to function with hierarchy in the different areas of interest in sports medicine.

Specific objectives

● Update general concepts in biological sciences and how they adapt in physical exercise.
● Establish new foundations in exercise science both at a physiological and functional level.
● Apply the most current scientific knowledge and methodological resources to design and direct the practice of physical activity aimed at the prevention, improvement of pathologies and the minimization of risk factors for health, according to the characteristics of each person.
● Acquire concepts in normal biomechanics, sports gesture and injury prevention.
● Establish fluid and effective communication between peers and the teaching team.
● Evaluate how physical exercise impacts the different stages of life and how to prescribe health practice in each of these stages.
● Promote the formation of transdisciplinary teams made up of Physicians, Kinesiologists, Teachers of Physical Education and Nutritionists among others, to address physical activity and its practice by different age groups in order to optimize the health status of the population.
● Give clear guidelines for the evaluation and certification of physical fitness to perform medium, low, high performance and elite physical exercise.
● Provide the student with information on clinical and sports nutrition, body composition, supplementation and doping.
● Provide students with tools to keep up to date through scientific journals, search for information and the importance of correctly reading said information.
● Ban myths about the prescription of physical exercise, health and sport in people with disabilities or with autoimmune, infectious-contagious or oncological pathologies.
● Create clear work guidelines in injury prevention, refresh knowledge and update everything related to sports trauma.
● Promote instances of permanent training related to physical activity and health.

Teaching strategies

● Theoretical classes.
● Problem solving in class.
● Videos.
● Seminars and workshops with national and international guests.

Minimum attendance required and evaluation modality

You must comply with 80% of the attendance, have passed all the monthly online exams and the final integrator of the last module.

Admission requirement

Have a degree in the degree courses in Medicine, Nutrition, Kinesiology, Physical Education, or be a student in the last year of these degree courses or with a degree in process.