ESO Iceland - course information
Diploma in Osteopathy / MSc in Osteopathy for Diplomates
The Diploma in Osteopathy is a 4-year program. However, students have the option to change pathways to validate their final year into an MSc for Diplomates in Osteopathy. This allows you to graduate with a Master’s degree, providing an advanced level of qualification and expertise in the field.
This is a part-time programme spread over ten weekends in Iceland and one week in the UK each year. The curriculum is based on the World Health Organisation’s training framework and fully uses the scope of Osteopathy to improve patient outcomes, enhance skills, treat the widest group of patient presentations and provide for a most rewarding professional life. Graduates will have a range of technical skills and approaches not achieved elsewhere.
You will be studying one of the broadest osteopathic education programs in the UK, with fascial, cranial, and visceral approaches and techniques introduced from the first year. Our extended internship module also gives students, in their fourth year, the opportunity to enter clinical internship at our ESO Clinic. We combine the traditions of Osteopathy with the latest developments in the field.
Teaching is provided by qualified Osteopaths and other healthcare specialists from all over Europe. Teaching will always take place in English.
The following provides an overview of course content delivered across all four years.
- Introduction to the ESO & Osteopathy
- General Osteopathic Examination (GOE)
- Introduction to Visceral Osteopathic Principles & Practice
- Lumbar Spine & Pelvis
- Lower Extremity 1: Hip & Knee
- Lower Extremity 2: Foot & Ankle
- Balanced Ligamentous Tension (BLT)
- General Osteopathic Technique (GOT)
- Introduction to Fascia: Myofascia, Sclerofascia, Viscerofascia & Meningeofascia
- Osteopathic Clinical Consultations (OCC)
- Osteopathic Case History Taking & Differential Diagnosis
Seminars in Maidstone, UK:
- Summative Examinations
- Introduction to Cranial (IVM)
- Lumbar Spine & Pelvis and Lower Extremity Review
- The Cervical Spine
- Medical Testing (GMS)
- Research & Professionalism
Please visit our Locations and Dates page for more detailed course information and for a timetable for first year on the programme.
- Visceral 2: Major Abdomino-pelvic Visceral Structures: Liver, gall bladder, stomach & spleen
- Visceral 3: Major Abdomino-pelvic Visceral Structures: Pancreas, small & large intestines
- Cranial (IVM) 2: Cranial base & Neurocranium
- Muscle Energy Technique (MET) 1 & 2
- Thorax & Cervical Spine 2
- Shoulder & Upper Extremity
- Osteopathic Clinical Consultations (OCC) 2
- General Osteopathic Examination (GOE) 2
- Research & Professionalism 2
- Medical Testing (GMS) 2: Clinical Neurological Screening
Seminars in Maidstone, UK:
- Summative Examinations
- Cranial (IVM) 3
- Balanced Ligamentous Tension (BLT) 2
- Spine & Pelvis and Lower Extremity Review
- Shoulder and Upper Extremity Review
- Research & Professionalism 3
- Cranial (IVM) 4 & 5
- Pain
- Osteopathic Clinical Consultation (OCC) 3 & 4
- Visceral 5 & 6
- General Osteopathic Treatment 2
- The Sporting Patient
Seminars in Maidstone, UK:
- Summer Examinations
- Harmonic Technique
- Mother & Child
- Research & Professionalism 4
- Review of Progress
- High Velocity Low Amplitude (HVLA) Thrust
- Review of all techniques
- Balanced Ligamentous Tension (BLT) 3
- Cranial 6
- Paediatric Osteopathy 1 & 2
- Osteopathic Approach to Women’s Health 1 & 2
- Positional Release
- Visceral 7 & 8
- Cranial 7
- Portfolio Peer Review
Seminars in Maidstone, UK:
- Osteopathic Approach to the Elderly Patient
- Still Exaggeration Technique
- Specific Adjustment Technique (SAT) 1 & 2
- Cranium & Neck: Integration
- Thorax: Integration
- Lower Spine & Pelvis: Integration
- Introduction to Animal Osteopathy
The programme specification for the Master of Science Osteopathy for Diplomates can be found here.
Further enquiries should be addressed to our BCNO Group Head of International Programmes Helder Pinto (helder.pinto@bcnougroup.ac.uk).