[Stimulation Program Health Research. XI. Evaluation of the section 'Rehabilitation Medicine']

As a part of the SGO Health Research Promotion Programme a research programme on rehabilitation medicine was realized. Aim of the programme was to strengthen clinical research in this field by training clinical researchers and improving clinical research infrastructure. Three clinical specialists have been trained to become senior clinical researchers by a 4-year training programme, concentrated within 2 clusters of a medical faculty, a university hospital and one or more centres for rehabilitation medicine. As a follow-up to the programme a 6-week educational course was developed for intending MDs in rehabilitation medicine and five intending rehabilitation medicine specialists receive a PhD research training during their clinical specialisation.