ECTS
60 credits
Duration
1 year
Training structure
Faculty of Medicine
Presentation
In September 2014, the University of Montpellier opened a Master 2 entitled "Expertise in Gerontology" - IDEFI-TIL (Initiative of Excellence in Innovative Training -Trans Innov Longevity) .
This Master's degree is taught 80% in e-learning (recorded courses accessible via a platform) and 20% in class . Each student benefits from individual tutoring by a practicing professional in the sector with whom the student is in close contact throughout the year. E-learning allows practicing professionals and people who are geographically distant from the university to benefit from quality university education.
This master is co-accredited with Sorbonne University, which offers the following 8 teaching units:
Standardized gerontological assessment
Training of trainers/tutors in gerontology
Nutrition of the elderly and hygiene
Telehealth
Therapeutic Education
Training in the use of ICT
Psychology and communication in old age
Research methodology applied to gerontological care research
The Trans-Innov-Longévité (TIL) project is a transdisciplinary inter-university system of excellence applied to the professions of longevity and autonomy. It is one of the winning projects of the IDEFI action of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) Investissement d'Avenir program. It models an innovative system of inter-university cross-disciplinary training adapted to both initial training and lifelong learning. It multiplies a system of training 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 paths, built on multi- and trans-disciplinary skills, around a structured but flexible educational engineering. To do this, it builds a global offer, combining face-to-face and distance learning courses taught by university professors who direct the master's programs and supervise and empower professionals from multidisciplinary fields, who act as tutors. TIL is therefore based on a new pedagogical engineering strategy combining a database of digital teaching resources produced by academics and by tutor-trainers.
TIL is a master's level university degree preparing students for jobs with gerontological responsibilities in the health and medical-social sector, as well as for many other jobs at the interface with gerontology. TIL is designed for the acquisition of multiple dual skills.
The Master 2 Expertise in Gerontology offers 3 courses of study for students to choose from:
- Research and training in gerontology course
- Housing and space planning for the elderly course
- Course Management and coordination of services and structures
The TIL Master's curriculum is composed of about twenty modules, some of which are compulsory and others adapted to the different professional educational paths offered. Each course includes 10 modules of 30 hours each. These modules cover all the major subjects of gerontology and longevity in order to meet the diversity of the professions concerned and the expectations of the students. This great diversity of modules allows the training courses to be personalized according to the students' knowledge, expectations and professional project. The Master IDEFI-TIL is an inter-university program and offers multiple and transversal courses adapted to heterogeneous audiences.
The curriculum of each student will be defined in consultation with the head of the Master's program in order to identify the modules necessary for the realization of his/her professional project.
Objectives
The purpose of the master's degree is to offer health managers on the one hand, and doctors and medical professionals on the other, and more generally those involved in health and health promotion, training that complements their initial technical training in the human and social sciences and education. It thus offers within the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier a synergy with the master's degree in "biology and health". It is carried out with the help of teacher-researchers from the Faculty of Education of the University of Montpellier 2, which has merged with the University of Montpellier 1 as part of the University of Montpellier.
Medical students are offered a choice between research in biomedical sciences, research in health administration and management, and research in medical humanities.
Within the Faculty of Medicine and the University of Montpellier 1, health care managers find a context that is favorable to specific training oriented towards new concerns about dependence and autonomy in a context in which the university route is becoming a necessity.
In the field of human relations management around chronic illness, management of establishments and services specialized in gerontology and research in human and social sciences, the University of Montpellier 1 and the Faculty of Medicine are particularly well placed to offer training that is both integrated into the health care system and oriented towards the human sciences.
The master's degree and its six courses thus represent an original and unique offer on health between life sciences and human sciences within a medical university, making the link between the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Education of the University of Montpellier.
Know-how and skills
The Master's degree holder masters :
- quantitative and qualitative research methodology,
- the methodology of reasoning in the humanities and social sciences,
- techniques for searching, indexing and analyzing information,
- pedagogical training techniques,
- 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 diseases
He is able to:
- supervise and lead specialized multi-professional teams
- managing reception teams for vulnerable or dependent persons
- to take into account the sick or vulnerable people as subjects and in their entirety (relational, ethical, deontological aspects)
- Identify the social environment of vulnerable people and understand the effects in terms of discrimination, inequalities in access to the common good and in terms of knowledge and health education
- Develop expertise and social engineering capabilities, namely:
- determine the human and social science methodologies adapted to a research object,
- develop research hypotheses
- carry out studies of the needs of a given population, public or service
- analyze a territory, individual and collective demands and draw up a report
- carry out technical studies and propose solutions
- design, present and argue a study, a project, a research
- Synthesize and enhance information
- define information, training and animation programs
- evaluate actions, user satisfaction, project results
- write and transmit the results of the evaluation, propose solutions
In terms of attitudes, the master's degree holder is able to:
- support prolonged listening
- self-assessment
- communicate with people in difficulty or vulnerable with empathy
- be open to different ways of thinking and acting
- act ethically and responsibly
- to have reflective distance from one's action
Program
To apply: https: //ecandidat.umontpellier.fr
And then
Professional integration
For the Geronto and TIL tracks:
Executive in a medico-social establishment; Project manager in a local authority; Trainer in gerontology; Project manager, consultant, expert in gerontology; Animator of a territorialized system (health network, CLIC...)