They establish a collaboration framework for the development of talent among students and young professionals, so that they can train and work in clinical research in healthcare centers and/or in the biopharmaceutical and medical devices industry.
Bilbao, April 24. The Official College of Physiotherapists of the Basque Country, ESAME, School of Medicine, and the Basque Health Cluster Association (BHC) have signed an agreement in which they are committed to developing talent among students and young professionals, so that they can be trained to work in clinical research in health centers and/or in the various functional areas of the biopharmaceutical industry and medical devices, where physiotherapy and its therapeutic exercise interventions are present, in order to respond to the lack of highly qualified professionals in this sector.
In this way, the COFPV is committed to identify talent among physiotherapists interested in training to work as professionals in clinical research in health centers and / or in various functional areas of health, collaborating with ESAME and BHC in the design of the training itinerary that will require the training of such talent.
For its part, ESAME agrees to collaborate as an active element in the training of talent so that students and young professionals are trained and can work in clinical research in health centers and / or in multiple functional areas of health where physiotherapy and its interventions of therapeutic exercise, health education, among other multiple actions, which aims to promote, prevent, cure and recover the health of people. To do this, ESAME offers a training itinerary through its Master’s programs of Lifelong Learning (ESAME-UAX own titles), its Professional Certificates and its Industrial Doctorate program ESAME in collaboration with UAX (University Alfonso X El Sabio).
The Basque Health Cluster (BHC), the reference association of the biosciences and health sector in the Basque Country, which brings together entities that develop products and services to improve the health and quality of life of people, is committed to identifying the possible needs of professional profiles required in the area of clinical research in health centers and/or in the various functional areas of physiotherapy, as well as the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices industry; disseminate this agreement among its members, with the aim that students enrolled in ESAME can carry out their master, certificate or industrial doctorate internships in companies and / or health centers members of BHC and collaborating with ESAME and the COFPV in the design of the training itinerary that will require the training of talent and in the supply of teachers of non-pharmacological interventions related to physiotherapy.
Finally, the agreement provides that members of the COFPV and employees of BH Cluster associates can benefit from a 5% discount on activities and / or training programs organized by ESAME.