Training of the personnel of a spa center to provide a therapeutic education program

Abstract

In France since 2009, the dispensation and the coordination of the therapeutic education of the patient (ETP) were structured.Indeed, the law HPST or Hospital-Patient-Health-Territories and the many texts of applications which followed, require that every person occurring in a therapeutic educational program be trained with the practices of the ETP.It is in this regulatory framework that several training courses were set up by the actors of the balneology in order to train all people intervening in a program which they involve healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, dieticians, ..) or others (professors of physical-activity adapted, relaxation therapists..)The Thermal Institute of the University of Bordeaux, largely contributed to the delivery of this certificate since to date 197 people were trained representing 50 people working in spa center.