Assuming for the sake of the discussion that it's similar to nursing training in the US, it is a combination of academic and practical. For example, University-level nursing schools will have a year-long program called, usually, Anatomy and Physiology. Students will learn, in the classroom, the location and function of every bone, muscle and nerve. Then they get to go and play in the dissection lab. This is, btw, just about the same class that other degreed medical professionals (occupational and physical therapists, for example) and medical students take.