Duration
1 or 2 years
Training structure
School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy
Presentation
The Master's program aims to offer healthcare executives, doctors, medical professionals, and more generally healthcare professionals, additional training to complement their initial technical training in the humanities and gerontology. It thus offers, within the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, specific training focused on new concerns surrounding dependency and autonomy in a context in which university education is becoming a necessity.
In the field of human relations management in relation to chronic illness, the management of specialized gerontology institutions and services, and research in the humanities and social sciences, the University of Montpellier is particularly well placed to offer training that is both integrated into healthcare provision and oriented towards the humanities.
The Master's degree and its three tracks thus represent a unique and original offering in the field of health, combining life sciences and human sciences within a medical university.
Program
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Epidemiology, Health Data, Biostatistics - EDSB
The proposed program is an evolution of the "Statistics for Health Sciences" program in the "Mathematics" track from the previous period. The Master 1 program will now be shared with the "Epidemiology, Health Data, Biostatistics – Data Analyst for Life Sciences" program, with which there was already significant overlap during the previous period.
Its objective remains to provide students, mainly from health and biology degree programs, with dual expertise in biostatistics. This dual expertise is particularly sought after in the job market, as shown by the employment rate figures upon completion of the program. Our students are real assets to any team, as they have the necessary background in biology/health to understand the issues at stake and the skills to analyze data appropriately. Proper analysis of biology/health data is a major challenge for research in the coming years, as data is becoming increasingly voluminous and numerous, and errors in its analysis can lead (and have already led in the past) to erroneous or non-reproducible conclusions that discredit the entire research sector. Real expertise in data analysis is therefore essential today in order to answer complex biological questions. This objective is the "DNA" of our training program and will continue to be so in the coming period.
In addition, the primary objective of changing the name of the program is to reflect the desired background of our students: the name "Mathematics" was misleading, since we only recruit students from health and biology programs in order to offer them dual expertise in biostatistics. However, these students do not naturally seek a master's degree in mathematics. Our visibility was therefore compromised by this affiliation.
In terms of development, it meets a need for the target audience, which will consist of health students and students changing direction who have completed the Specific Health Access Program (PASS) and the Health Access License (LAS), currently being implemented as part of the PACES reform.
In addition, we have updated the course content to enable health and biology students to acquire skills that are increasingly relevant to the biostatistics job market: introduction to the Python language, reinforcement of teaching in machine learning and artificial intelligence. This change is also consistent with the change in specialization, as the health applications of these methods are becoming increasingly numerous (biomarker research, personalized medicine, etc.).
REHAB
This training program did not previously exist within the Montpellier Nîmes Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier. The REHAB program responds to new training needs related to changes in the healthcare system:
- Changes in healthcare professions:
- Expansion of the fields of research for medical and surgical professions
- University education for paramedical professions, particularly rehabilitation professions
- Creation of new professions in the field of rehabilitation: teachers in adapted physical activities, digital health engineers (virtual reality, home automation, robotics, connected objects, big data, brain-computer interfaces, functional electrical stimulation, neuromodulation, embedded sensors, etc.), telemedicine operators, care pathway advisors, rehabilitation technical platform technicians, etc.Training for these new professions will enable the creation of new training programs at the end of LAS (vocational training programs).
The REHAB track of the Master's in Health aims to train researchers in the field of rehabilitation and re-education. It is a health research program specifically focused on the functioning of human beings in normal or pathological situations with a view to reducing sensory-motor impairments, recovering or compensating for activity limitations, and reducing disabilities.
This two-year program is open to students in health sciences, scientific disciplines, and physical education and sports science and technology.
The originality of this program lies in the richness of its teaching, based on an interdisciplinary approach to health that provides scientific knowledge in the field of rehabilitation and re-education, as well as theoretical and practical methodological knowledge enabling the implementation of excellent research strategies aimed at improving the health of the population, reducing neuro-locomotor disabilities, and better understanding the complex challenges of the evolution of both societal and technological health systems.
The REHAB program of the Master's in Health Sciences at the Montpellier/Nîmes Faculty of Medicine consists of a common M1 program offered by the Faculty of Medicine and two Master's 2 sub-programs: MAP and HAT.
Humanities and Social Sciences - SHS
The master's degree program created in 2011 at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier (UM1) by Professors Pierre Dujols and Laurent Visier is part of recent developments in the treatment of chronic diseases.
Healthcare professionals are called upon to participate in the development of research skills in the areas of perceptions of disease, the social organization surrounding it, the structuring of networks, and health education. This research must draw on knowledge in the life sciences and the humanities and social sciences in order to understand "hybrid objects." The most significant changes are now occurring at the interface between life sciences and human sciences. As a result, the strict division between human sciences and life sciences is no longer valid. Researchers investigating the field of chronic disease must be able to address health issues in their dual biological and social dimensions.
New skills are required to conduct high-quality research into long-term illnesses, chronic conditions, longer life expectancy, and disability.
Digital Care - Telemedicine, Telecare SD - TT
Expertise in gerontology - Trans-Innov-Longevity - TIL
In September 2014, the University of Montpellier launched a Master's degree program entitled "Expertise in Gerontology" – IDEFI-TIL (Initiative of Excellence in Innovative Training - Trans Innov Longevity).
This Master's program is delivered 80% via e-learning (recorded courses accessible via a platform) and 20% in person. Each enrolled student benefits from individual tutoring by a practicing professional in the field, with whom the student maintains close contact throughout the year. E-learning allows practicing professionals and those who live far from the university to benefit from high-quality university education.
This Master 2 program is jointly accredited with Pierre and Marie Curie University Paris VI and coordinated by UNF3S (Francophone Digital University of Health and Sports Sciences).
A transdisciplinary inter-university system of excellence applied to professions in the fields of longevity and autonomy, the Trans-Innov-Longévité (TIL) project is one of the winning projects of the IDEFI initiative of the Investissement d'Avenir program of the French National Research Agency (ANR). It models an innovative system of cross-disciplinary inter-university training courses suitable for both initial training and lifelong learning. It multiplies a system of training courses of excellence based on the potential of national and international university networks.
TIL promotes access for new audiences to new university degree programs, offering a wide variety of hybrid educational models and pathways built on multi- and transdisciplinary skills, based on a structured but flexible educational approach. To this end, it has developed a comprehensive offering that combines face-to-face and distance learning courses taught by university professors who lead master's programs and supervise and empower professionals from multidisciplinary fields, who act as trainer-tutors. TIL is therefore based on a new educational engineering strategy that combines a database of digital teaching resources produced by academics and tutor-trainers.
TIL is a master's degree that prepares students for positions of responsibility in gerontology in the health and medico-social sector, as well as for many other professions related to gerontology. TIL is designed to enable students to acquire a wide range of skills.