Second cycle degree in

Health professions of rehabilitation sciences

Class: LM/SNT2 - Health professions for rehabilitation

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Class LM/SNT2 - Health professions for rehabilitation
Duration 2 years
Branch Padova
Language Italian
Tuition fees and scholarships
Programme coordinator ANDREA VIANELLO
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When a primary interest in the rehabilitation field is combined with the improvement of procedures and care services, this master's course provides the skills to operate, even in top positions, in managerial, training and research professional environments. You will be able to evaluate the quality of the services provided as a response to rehabilitation needs and to make decisions in the management of rehabilitation services of more or less complex healthcare structures: optimise the available resources, make cost / benefit analyses, evaluate environmental risk factors and protect safety in the workplace. You will also be able to carry out educational and tutorial activities related to professionalising study subjects. You will work, also in managerial roles, in rehabilitation units at hospitals and local social and health units.

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Characteristics and objectives
Graduates in Rehabilitation Sciences of Health Professions perform functions that require high competences and skills in healthcare, management, training and research processes in the context of rehabilitation.
In healthcare processes the graduate organizes and manages projects aimed to improve health processes, organization of services, assessment of provided quality and responses to rehabilitative needs.
In management processes the graduate makes decisions on organization and management of health rehabilitative services and in health care facilities of different complexity; he programs optimization of resources (human, technological, informational, financial); he applies methods of analysis cost / effectiveness, cost / benefit and the benefit of quality control methods and identifies environmental risk factors, assessing the effects on health and predisposes interventions for the protection at the workplace.
In training processes the graduate applies appropriate teaching methods as well as tutorial activities and training, as part of the basic, master and complementsary training; he organizes and coordinates educational activities and educational processes of institutional courses and lifelong learning.
In the research processes, he ideates, designs, maintains, and controls research; he identifies applications of the research to training and professional fields.

Occupational opportunities
The graduate can fill managerial functions in Rehabilitation Operating Unit of Hospitals and Local Socio-Sanitary Units (Local Health Unit), as well as management functions of Hospital Units, Local Health Units Department.