ECTS
60 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Medicine
Presentation
The master's degree created in 2011 at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier (UM1) by Prof. Pierre Dujols and Prof. Laurent Visier, is in line with recent developments in the management of chronic diseases.
Health actors are called upon to participate in the development of research skills in the fields of perceptions of illness, the social organization set up around it, the structuring of networks and health education. This research must be based on knowledge in the life sciences and in the human and social sciences in order to be able to apprehend "hybrid objects". It is now at the interface between knowledge from the life sciences and the humanities that the most important changes are taking place. From then on, the strict division between human sciences and life sciences is no longer operative. 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-level research on long-term illnesses, chronicity, life extension and disability.
Objectives
To qualify research professionals who combine bio-medical or health care knowledge with innovative human and social science perspectives in the consideration of chronic diseases.
The humanities and society specialization trains health researchers in the following fields of human and social sciences: sociology, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, communication sciences, education sciences, and political sciences.
It opens the possibility of doing a doctorate in these disciplines. Students who have completed a Master's degree in this specialization must be able to conduct research in one of the above disciplines.
Know-how and skills
Acquired Skills:
- Mastery of the inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to health
- Ability to formulate relevant questions in the humanities and social sciences
- Ability to produce critical analysis and bibliographic synthesis
- Mastery of quantitative and qualitative research methodology in the humanities and social sciences
- Adaptation of methods and techniques to a research object
- Ability to develop research hypotheses
- Mastery of the rules for producing a scientific article
Program
1st semester:
1. Patient pathway (12h/4ECTS)
2. English (20h/4ECTS)
3. Culture and health (20h/4ECTS)
4. Research seminar (16h/5ECTS)
5. Critical reading of documents (20h/4ECTS)
6. SHS and health (24h/5ECTS)
7. Health, inequality, territories (20h/4ECTS)
2nd semester:
1. Patient pathway (12h/3ECTS)
2. English (16h/3ECTS)
3. Health policies and actors (24h/5ECTS)
4. Research seminar (20h/3ECTS)
5. Critical reading of documents (20h/4ECTS)
6. Philosophy of care (16h/3ECTS)
7. Research paper (10ECTS)
Select a program
Admission
Target audience
Students in initial or continuing education:
- Students and professionals of medical disciplines: medicine, maieutics, pharmacy, odontology.
- Students from SHS disciplines aiming to integrate into research in the world of health.
- Health professionals and managers.
And then
Further studies
The Master 2 opens the door to doctoral theses in various social science disciplines (political science, sociology, anthropology, education sciences, etc.)
Professional integration
OUTPUTS
Higher education (university, schools, training centers) and research in public and private institutions, positions of responsibility in regional, national and international public health organizations (central administrations, decentralized levels, local authorities, agencies, associations...), in public and private health establishments (hospitals, clinics,) in social protection organizations (insurance funds, mutual insurance companies).
Continuation in thesis recommended.