Medicine and Surgery, Technological Program (Qualifying for the Medical Profession)
What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?
What does it train you for?
The specific educational objectives that characterize the Master's Degree Single Cycle in Medicine and Surgery with a Technological focus (MED-IT) are to train a professional figure of Medical Surgeon (with the possibility of simultaneously obtaining a degree in Biomedical Engineering, taking an additional 40 CFU distributed over 5 Area 09 courses, starting from the second year of the course) with a wealth of skills enriched with the acquisition of knowledge and methodological and technological capabilities specific to engineering.
The MED-IT graduate will be able to tackle, analyze and solve problems of medical-biological interest with innovative methodologies.
In line with these objectives, the MED-IT Degree Course is characterized by a balanced vertical and transversal integration between the basic sciences, which must be broad and include knowledge of evolutionary biology, molecular biology, genetics and biological complexity knowledge of pathological processes and the mechanisms that cause them, with particular attention to individual variability and gender differences; the methodology and clinical medical practice, which must be sound and based on extensive use of professionalized tutorial-type teaching; the acquisition of scientific, medical, clinical and professional methodology, based on evidence, addressed to the health problems of the individual and the community; the technologies used in the clinical setting, necessary for the effective and safe use of instrumentation and implants; biomedical instrumentation and implants aimed at diagnosis and patient care.
What do you learn?
The graduate must be able to gather information from the patient and know how to interpret it, know how to make clinical decisions that lead to a correct diagnosis and targeted therapeutic interventions, also and through the expert use of technology, to which he/she will have been able to contribute in specific application development.
His decisions must be deduced from the best clinical practices, the correct application of technology, and scientific evidence, without forgetting the needs of the patient and the requirements of the healthcare system of the country in which he works.
His or her clinical activity must therefore be based on extremely up-to-date knowledge, must be ethical and capable of ensuring the efficient use of the resources available; on the other hand, it must be conducted in close ‘collaboration-sharing’ with the patient and his or her family and with the other members of the intra-professional-inter-professional team.
Thanks to the contribution of the biomedical engineering courses, the master's graduate will also be able to solve methodological and technological problems in the physiological and clinical fields, to deal with analysis and modelling of biosignals and bioimaging and with medical robotics and computational biomechanics, and to use appropriate medical software for diagnostic assistance, including those based on Artificial Intelligence.
What can you do with it?
The degree course trains an innovative professional figure in an actively growing sector that offers graduates new opportunities to enter the world of work.
In particular, the course aims to integrate the medical doctor's cultural education, training professional figures with strong interdisciplinary skills in the fields of biomaterials engineering, biomechanics, information, hardware and software technologies, bioscience and regenerative medicine, biomedical devices (mechanical, electronic, robotic), as well as the testing, maintenance and programming of equipment used in healthcare facilities.
An integral part of the training pathway is the professional/qualifying internship, both within the University Hospital and externally, at numerous healthcare and hospital facilities, as well as at general practitioners affiliated with the University, in collaboration with the Provincial Associations of General Practitioners.
The main job outlets are represented by the positions available at the NHS health facilities and hospitals; universities and research centers; health service management bodies; national health organization’s; companies in the pharmaceutical, biomedical and biotechnological sectors; territorial and service medicine; and health area specialization schools.