WCM-Q launches online music therapy course

Doha: An expert team of music therapists, neuroscientists, physicians and musicians has launched an online course at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) to provide training in the use of music-based interventions to treat a variety of health conditions.  

The intensive course, titled Training in Music-Based Interventions: from Fundamentals to Multidisciplinary Implementation, comprises more than 20 live and recorded webinars and provides clinicians and musicians with a set of evidence-based resources describing the main techniques of music-based interventions and their clinical applications.  Music-based approaches are used to treat or manage many different conditions, including speech deficits, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and mental health issues, among many others.