ECTS
60 credits
Duration
1 year
Training structure
Faculty of Medicine
Presentation
In September 2014, the University of Montpellier opened a Master 2 course entitled "Expertise in Gerontology" - IDEFI-TIL (Initiative d'Excellence en Formations Innovantes -Trans Innov Longévité).
This Master's degree is 80% e-learning (recorded courses accessible via a platform) and 20% face-to-face. 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 enables practicing professionals and people geographically distant from the university to benefit from high-quality university teaching.
This master's degree is co-accredited with Sorbonne University, which offers the following 8 teaching units:
Standardized gerontological assessment
Training gerontology trainers/tutors
Nutrition and hygiene for the elderly
Telehealth
Therapeutic education
Training in the use of ICTE
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, and is one of the winning projects under the IDEFI initiative of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) Investissement d'Avenir program. It models an innovative system of cross-disciplinary inter-university training adapted to both initial training and lifelong learning. It leverages the potential of national and international university networks to create a system of excellence in training.
TIL promotes access for new target groups to new university degree courses, offering a wide variety of models and hybrid teaching paths, built on multi- and trans-disciplinary skills, around structured yet flexible pedagogical engineering. To achieve this, it builds a comprehensive offering, combining face-to-face and distance learning courses delivered by university lecturers who direct the masters courses and supervise and empower professionals from multidisciplinary fields, who act as trainer-tutors. TIL thus relies on a new pedagogical engineering strategy combining a database of digital teaching resources produced by academics and tutor-trainers.
TIL is a Master's-level degree preparing students for positions of responsibility in gerontology in the health and medical-social sector, as well as for a wide range of other professions interfacing with gerontology. TIL is designed to enable the acquisition of multiple dual skills.
The Master 2 Expertise in Gerontology offers a choice of 3 courses:
- Research and training in gerontology course
- Housing and Spatial Planning for the Elderly pathway
- Management and coordination of services and structures course
The TIL Master's curriculum is made up of around twenty modules, some of which are compulsory, while others are adapted to the different professional training paths on offer. Each pathway comprises 10 modules of 30 hours each. These modules cover all the major topics in gerontology and longevity, so as to meet the diversity of the professions concerned and the expectations of students. This wide range of modules means that training courses can be tailored to students' skills, expectations and career plans. The inter-university IDEFI-TIL Master's program therefore offers a wide range of cross-disciplinary courses adapted to a heterogeneous student body.
Each student's course of study will be defined in consultation with the Master's supervisor, so as to identify the modules needed to achieve his or her professional project.
Objectives
The aim of the Master's program is to provide healthcare managers, doctors and medical professionals, and more generally those involved in healthcare and health promotion, with training in human and social sciences and education to complement their initial technical training. Within the Montpellier Faculty of Medicine, it offers synergy with the "Biology and Health" Master's degree. The program is run with the support of teacher-researchers from the Faculty of Education at the University of Montpellier 2, which has merged with the University of Montpellier 1 to form the University of Montpellier.
Medical students can choose between research in biomedical sciences, research in health administration and management, and research in medical humanities.
The Faculty of Medicine and the University of Montpellier 1 are the ideal setting for healthcare executives to receive specific training geared towards the new concerns surrounding dependency and autonomy, in a context where the university route is becoming a necessity.
Montpellier 1 University and its Faculty of Medicine are particularly well placed to offer training that is both integrated into the healthcare sector and oriented towards the humanities, in the fields of chronic disease management, management of specialized gerontology facilities and services, and research in the humanities and social sciences.
The Master's degree and its six courses thus represent an original and unprecedented offering in the field of health between life sciences and human sciences within a medical university, bridging the gap between Montpellier University's Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Education.
Know-how and skills
The Master's degree holder will master :
- quantitative and qualitative research methodology,
- reasoning methodology in the human 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 illnesses
He is able to :
- managing and leading specialized multi-professional teams
- manage reception teams for vulnerable or dependent people
- consider sick or vulnerable people as individuals and in their entirety (relational, ethical and deontological aspects)
- identify the social environments of vulnerable people, and understand the effects in terms of discrimination, inequalities in access to the common good, and relationships with knowledge and health education
- Develop expertise and social engineering skills, including :
- identify the humanities and social sciences methodologies best suited to a particular research project,
- develop research hypotheses
- carry out studies of the needs of a given population, audience or service
- analyze a territory, individual and collective demands and draw up a balance sheet
- carry out technical studies and propose solutions
- design, present and argue a study, a project, a research project
- synthesize and add value to information
- define information, training and promotion programs
- evaluate actions, user satisfaction and project results
- draw up and communicate assessment results, 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 at risk with empathy
- be open to different ways of thinking and acting
- acting ethically and responsibly
- gain reflective distance from one's actions
Program
To apply: https: //ecandidat.umontpellier.fr
And then
Professional integration
For Geronto and TIL courses:
Management executive in a medico-social establishment; Project manager in a local authority; Trainer in gerontology; Project manager, consultant, expert in gerontology; Coordinator of a local system (health network, CLIC, etc.).