University of Parma
Master in Medicine and Surgery
Parma, Italy
DURATION
6 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2024
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
Blended, On-Campus
* Tuition fees vary on the basis of a proportional tuition fee system: https://en.unipr.it/studying/tuition-fees-and-scholarships-2020-2021
Introduction
The mission of the single-cycle Master's Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery is identified with the training of a doctor at an initial professional level with a biomedical-psychosocial culture, who possesses a multidisciplinary and integrated vision of the most common problems of health and disease. The education of the graduate must be oriented towards the community, the territory, and fundamentally towards the prevention of disease as well as towards health promotion, and with a humanistic culture in its medical aspects. This specific mission responds in a more adequate way to the new needs of care and health, as it is centered not only on the disease but above all on the sick person, considered as a whole of soma and psyche and inserted in the social context.
The medical training thus oriented is also seen as the first segment of an education that must last over time, and in this perspective the knowledge that the student must acquire in this phase has been calibrated, giving due importance to self-learning, to experiences. not only in hospitals but also in local health facilities, epidemiology, for the development of clinical reasoning and the culture of prevention.
The Medical School of the University of Parma has now decided to develop this European and international vocation opening a novel Medicine & Surgery course, entirely held in English, in the nearby city of Piacenza, which offers a hospital system that is not shared with other medical courses but will be uniquely dedicated to the new medical degree.
Curriculum
The Programme
This Master in Medicine and Surgery is taught in the nearby city of Piacenza.
The medical training thus oriented is also seen as the first segment of an education that must last over time, and in this perspective the knowledge that the student must acquire in this phase has been calibrated, giving due importance to self-learning, to experiences. not only in hospitals but also in local health facilities, epidemiology, for the development of clinical reasoning and the culture of prevention.
The qualifying characteristics of the doctor to be trained include:
- Good ability to human contact (communication skills);
- Self-learning and self-assessment skills (continuing education);
- Ability to independently analyze and solve problems associated with medical practice together with good clinical practice based on scientific evidence (evidence-based medicine);
- A habit of constant updating of knowledge and skills, and possession of the methodological and cultural bases suitable for the autonomous acquisition and critical evaluation of new knowledge and skills (continuing professional development);
- Good practice of interdisciplinary and interprofessional work (interprofessional education);
- In-depth knowledge of the methodological foundations necessary for a correct approach to scientific research in the medical field, together with the autonomous use of information technologies indispensable in clinical practice.
Graduates in Medicine and Surgery carry out the activity of surgeons in various clinical, health, and biomedical roles and professional fields. A Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery is also a requirement for admission to Postgraduate Schools in the medical area.
The course prepares for the professions of surgeons in its various functional articulations.
The duration of the Master's Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery is 6 years; according to current legislation, the teaching of the Degree Course is normally organized for each year of the course in two coordinated cycles lasting less than one year: the cycles, conventionally referred to as semesters, start in October and March, respectively, and have a total duration of at least 28 weeks. To achieve the degree, the student must have acquired 300 university training credits (CFU); in addition, specific professional skills in the field of internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, laboratory medicine, skin, and venereal diseases, and medical-surgical specialties, must be achieved by carrying out professional training activities for a duration of not less than 60 CFU.
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Program Outcome
What to expect upon graduation
The international dimension of the course and the competence in global health make the graduate in Medicine and Surgery prepared to undertake Italian and international specializations, professional practice and biomedical research. Training therefore can go on with post-graduate programs in Italy or in other Countries, according to the relative regulations, such as:
- Medical specialization schools
- Training in General Medicine
- Second level Masters
- Ph.D. Programs