Report on a month course in clinical and surgical leprosy for undergraduate students of physiotherapy.

The Leprosy Mission Community Hospital Shahdara, India is one of the tertiary care hospital and a referral centre for treatment of leprosy. The Leprosy Mission Hospital, is involved in the training of medical officers, nurses, physiotherapists and other medical and paramedical workers who are involved directly or indirectly under NLEP (National leprosy eradication programme). This report is on the 1 month training programme which is specifically designed for physiotherapists and undergraduate physiotherapy students. This report is based on the data which is collected from the training programme for undergraduate students of physiotherapy during January 2010 to December 2013. The main focus of the training programme was to give an overview of clinical and surgical leprosy. The name of this course was ‘One month training course for physiotherapists in clinical and surgical leprosy’.