Gender-specific medicine: an innovative push in the development of personalized medicine and a challenge for healthcare systems

Postgraduate type
Professional Master Programme
Academic year
2024/2025
Duration
1 year
Level
Second level
Language
Italian
Area
Healthcare
In summary
Opening of applications
Closing of applications
Hub
University of Parma Department of Medicine and Surgery
Application calls and forms
Further information
ECTS credits
60
Cost
€ 3.416,00
Access requirements

Single cycle Master’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery; Specialist Degree in Medicine and Surgery (ex D.M. n. 509/99), with qualification to practice; Master’s Degree in Dentistry and Dental Prostheses; Master’s Degree in Health Professions; Single cycle Master’s Degree in Pharmacy and CTF; Master’s Degree in Psychology; Master’s Degree in Biotechnology; Master’s Degree in Biology; Master’s Degree in Chemistry; Master’s Degree in Food Science; Master’s degree in programming and management of Social Services or similar. Equivalent securities acquired abroad. Further qualifications may be evaluated by the Executive Committee on the basis of scientific-cultural affinities with the subjects proposed in the Master, also taking into account the CV submitted by the candidates.

Auditors
10
Contact for educational information

Prof.ssa Lorella Franzoni

lorella.franzoni@unipr.it

0521-903823

Beginning of teaching activities
February 2025
Methods of implementation
The course will be carried out in e-learning mode
Educational content

The training contents aim to: (a) equip health professionals with knowledge and tools for the design and development of gender-specific medicine, through training, the enhancement of multidisciplinary experiences and skills; (b) promote innovative research methodologies (biomedical, pharmacological and psycho-social); (c) feed the training process through the Territorial, Regional, National and European excellence; (d) define and act on the meaning of the centrality of the patient in the treatment processes; (e) build paths, methodologies, indicators, on prevention, diagnosis, care and rehabilitation, gender-specific, for the development of Health Systems increasingly attentive to personalized medicine

Admission procedure

selection based on qualifications

Minimum number of enrollments
5
Maximum number of enrollments
30
Professional profile

The Master aims to create a professional figure: (a) who possesses a multidisciplinary knowledge on the influence of gender on the health and disease of individuals; (b) who is able to promote and act a culture for a personalized medicine model, with the aim of identifying and overcoming inequalities in the field of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of various diseases; (c) being able to contribute to the development of health systems aimed at the centrality of the patient.