ECTS
60 credits
Duration
1 year
Training structure
School of Medicine
Presentation
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's degree is co-accredited with Sorbonne University, which offers the following 8 teaching units:
Standardized gerontological assessment
Training of trainers/tutors in gerontology
Nutrition for the elderly and hygiene
Telehealth
Therapeutic education
Training in the use of ICT in education
Psychology and communication in old age
Research methodology applied to gerontological care research
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 multiple dual skills.
The Master 2 in Gerontology offers two tracks for students to choose from:
- Career path Research and training in gerontology
- Career path Supervision and coordination of services and structures
The Master's in TIL program consists of around twenty modules, some of which are compulsory and others tailored to the various professional courses offered. Each course comprises 10 modules of 30 hours. These modules cover all the major topics in gerontology and longevity in order to meet the diversity of the professions concerned and the expectations of students. This wide variety of modules allows training programs to be customized according to students' prior knowledge, expectations, and career plans. The inter-university IDEFI-TIL Master's program therefore offers multiple, cross-disciplinary courses tailored to a diverse audience.
Each student's curriculum will be defined in consultation with the Master's program director in order to identify the modules necessary for the realization of their professional project.
Objectives
The master's degree aims to offer healthcare executives, doctors and medical professionals, and more generally those involved in healthcare and health promotion, additional training to complement their initial technical training in the humanities, social sciences, and education. It thus offers synergy with the master's degree in "health biology" within the Montpellier Faculty of Medicine. It is carried out with the assistance of faculty members from the Faculty of Education at Montpellier 2 University, which merged with Montpellier 1 University to form the University of Montpellier.
Medical students are offered a choice between biomedical science research on the one hand, health administration and management research on the other, and finally medical humanities research.
Healthcare managers find within the Faculty of Medicine and Montpellier 1 University a favorable environment for specific training focused on new concerns surrounding dependency and autonomy, in a context where 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, Montpellier 1 University and the Faculty of Medicine are particularly well placed to offer training that is both integrated into healthcare provision and oriented towards the humanities.
The master's degree and its six tracks thus represent a unique and original offering in the field of health, combining life sciences and human sciences within a medical university, linking the university's medical faculty and education faculty.
Know-how and skills
The holder of the Master's degree has mastered:
- quantitative and qualitative research methodology,
- the methodology of reasoning in the humanities and social sciences,
- techniques for researching, indexing, and analyzing information,
- teaching techniques for training,
- written and oral expression techniques,
- the basics of bibliographic referencing for publication in scientific journals,
- Knowledge of the social and institutional environment of vulnerability: elderly people and people with chronic illnesses
He is capable of:
- supervise and lead specialized multidisciplinary teams
- manage reception teams for vulnerable or dependent individuals
- take into account sick or vulnerable people as individuals and in their entirety (relational, ethical, and professional aspects)
- Identify the social environments of vulnerable individuals, understand the effects in terms of discrimination, inequalities in access to public goods, and in terms of knowledge and health education.
- Develop expertise and social engineering capabilities, namely:
- determine the humanities and social science methodologies appropriate for a research topic,
- develop research hypotheses
- Conduct studies on the needs of a given population, audience, or service.
- analyze a territory, individual and collective requests, and draw up an assessment
- Conduct technical studies and propose solutions
- design, present, and defend a study, project, or research
- synthesize and leverage information
- define information, training, and outreach programs
- evaluate actions, user satisfaction, and project results
- Draft and communicate the results of the assessment, propose solutions
In terms of attitudes, the master's degree holder is able to:
- support extended listening
- self-assess
- communicate with people in difficulty or vulnerable situations with empathy
- Be open to different ways of thinking and acting.
- act ethically and responsibly
- have a reflective distance from one's actions
Program
And after
Professional integration
For the Geronto and TIL courses:
Executive manager in a medical-social institution; Project manager in local government; Gerontology trainer; Project manager, consultant, gerontology expert; Coordinator of regional initiatives (health network, CLIC, etc.)