WSA
About
-
The World Stroke Academy (WSA) is a project of the World Stroke Organization (WSO) and aims at improving education about stroke on a global scale.
-
The WSA provides information about stroke and knowledge for healthcare professionals and medical doctors in order to improve prevention, therapy and management of stroke.
-
The WSA Steering Committee decides on all aspects of the WSA, including content development, and scheduling of major events and activities.
-
The WSA is a platform open to all societies and industry sponsors aiming at global effectiveness of fighting stroke and its physical and mental consequences.
-
Regional stroke organisations are encouraged to join and share their educational initiatives.
-
The WSA provides information chapters and educational modules, covering all aspects of stroke prevention and stroke management.
-
The WSA acts also as an online learning platform, with an internet-based learning management system, personal desktop with courses, learning modules, forums, working groups, etc.
-
Interactive features of the online platform enable professionals to interact with their peers, ask advice from other specialists, and distribute information and knowledge about stroke that they themselves have found useful.
-
The WSA was developed together with the founding sponsor, Boehringer Ingelheim.
“This educational campaign of the WSO probably amounts to the largest single professional educational campaign ever to promote the essentials of stroke care.”
Report WSO Education Committee 2008 to the EC and Board of Directors, September 2008
