MedTec School

Program content

A specific training offer for MedTec School

The training of these doctors will be characterized by the emphasis placed on the acquisition of technical-scientific skills enhanced compared to those of traditional medical training.

The integrated six-year training course provides for the acquisition of 30 additional CFUs that will allow graduates to obtain the Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, immediately after the release of the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine and Surgery by Humanitas.

In the first 3 years of the course, the first semesters will be held at the Politecnico di Milano and the second at Humanitas University. This organization allows the student to experience the contamination between medical and engineering knowledge from the beginning of the course. In the next three years, mainly dedicated to clinical training, the teaching activity will be organized at Humanitas University for both frontal lessons and professionalizing activities. This three-year period includes monodisciplinary courses and integrated courses, held by both Politecnico and Humanitas teachers. In some courses the teachers of the two universities will be co-present in the classroom to ensure the full integration of skills. The same approach of co-tutoring will be adopted also for some of the professionalizing activities typical of the preparation of the doctor.

The characteristics of the course

The course, accordingly with the approach of Humanitas University and Politecnico di Milano, uses interactive methodologies (such as Research-Based Learning, Problem-Based Learning, Case Method and portfolio of skills), with the aim of ensuring a solid integration between the theoretical concepts and the more properly practical and professional aspects necessary to develop an autonomous and critical reasoning ability.

The Course provides:

1. A higher level of in-depth study of the basic subjects that are already part of the training of the physician (chemistry, physics, statistics, computer science), typical of the preparation of a biomedical engineer.

2. A greater attention to the acquisition of the necessary skills to deal with issues related to precision medicine and regenerative medicine.

3. The integration of pre-clinical and clinical preparation with related teachings (such as mathematical analysis, computer science, electrical engineering, mechanics, etc..) useful to build a solid basic engineering training giving future graduates of the course skills that make them able to address complex issues in the field of applications of technology and information analysis to medicine.

4. The inclusion in the educational path of methodologies and technologies typical of biomedical engineering in order to facilitate a cross-fertilisation between medical training and basic engineering training.

5. An innovative approach to doctor-patient interaction that allows to make the most of the potential offered by technologies and intelligent systems for the optimization of machine-patient interaction and for the customization of therapies and continuity of care.