Hearing aid technicians specialises in handling devices that help people with hearing loss to hear better. They can perform their work completely autonomously as well as support the audiologist or ENT specialist in the treatment of patients, both children and adults, suffering from auditory system problems. The degree course in hearing aid technology offers you the chance to enter the world of work quickly and to work in a health profession that is in great demand both in Italy and the rest of Europe. Don't miss the opportunity to secure a profession that will allow you to earn money by helping others.

[Questo è un testo di esempio] Un corso dalla lunga e consolidata tradizione a livello nazionale e internazionale, frutto di una fitta rete di relazioni intessute nel tempo con le istituzioni culturali cittadine. Proprio in una città spesso ai vertici delle classifiche nazionali per la qualità del vivere, grazie alla contiguità con il polo culturale e museale della Pilotta, riusciamo a unire teoria e sperimentazione sui materiali nei campi dell’arte moderna e contemporanea, del cinema e del teatro.

[Questo è un testo di esempio] Un corso dalla lunga e consolidata tradizione a livello nazionale e internazionale, frutto di una fitta rete di relazioni intessute nel tempo con le istituzioni culturali cittadine. Proprio in una città spesso ai vertici delle classifiche nazionali per la qualità del vivere, grazie alla contiguità con il polo culturale e museale della Pilotta, riusciamo a unire teoria e sperimentazione sui materiali nei campi dell’arte moderna e contemporanea, del cinema e del teatro.

The course is organized in 3 academic years, 180 ECTS, inclusive of 3 periods per year with an exam session for each of them. This will allow the students to know the theoretical and scientific foundation of the profession and become skillful in clinical practice within the professional environment of the Center of Dental Medicine.

Three learning areas can be identified in the programme: Preparatory Sciences, Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences, Applied Technical Sciences together with clinical training.

Dental Hygienists are primary healthcare professionals who perform dental health education activities and take part in primary prevention projects within the public health system.                                                                                       

The Dental Hygiene programme prepares students to become dental hygienists who provide patient-centered care to diverse patient populations in a variety of health care settings.

At the end of the course the graduated students will be able to assess a patient's condition and to offer patient-specific preventive and educational services to promote and maintain good oral and general health. These goals  will be reached through learning and applying patients’ oral, dental and periodontal assessment, data gathering and interpretation to plan a preventive dentistry treatment.

Preventive treatments encompass oral hygiene instructions, periodontal instrumentation and application of different prophylactic means; assessment of the results and long term maintenance plans, counseling on healthy life styles. Dental hygienists carry out their professional activity in public or private healthcare facilities, in dental industry both as employees or freelancers, in University education and in research.

[Questo è un testo di esempio] Un corso dalla lunga e consolidata tradizione a livello nazionale e internazionale, frutto di una fitta rete di relazioni intessute nel tempo con le istituzioni culturali cittadine. Proprio in una città spesso ai vertici delle classifiche nazionali per la qualità del vivere, grazie alla contiguità con il polo culturale e museale della Pilotta, riusciamo a unire teoria e sperimentazione sui materiali nei campi dell’arte moderna e contemporanea, del cinema e del teatro.

The Degree Course in Health Assistance, born out of the collaboration between the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the University of Parma, prepares and qualifies to the profession of Health Care Assistant, the professional in charge of disease prevention and health promotion and education in all phases of one's life. The activity refers to individuals, families, schools and the community and is carried out by identifying people's health needs, health determinants and risk factors, and the priorities for preventive, educational and remedial intervention, to be activated in various contexts, also with the use of specific techniques and tools. The training course allows students to acquire knowledge of a clinical-etiological nature, public health, preventive medicine and health education within the psycho-pedagogical and communicative spheres, and is useful for developing the behavioural and non-behavioural skills needed to implement effective preventive and educational interventions for the resolution of health problems. The training pathway consists of theoretical teaching activities (frontal lectures, seminars, work in small groups), professionalising activities organised in laboratories and internships to be carried out in various healthcare facilities in the area, under the supervision of tutors, to acquire full mastery of all the necessary professional skills and their immediate use in the work environment. At the end of the training course the student obtains the title of Health Care Assistant, thus becoming the health care professional responsible for the protection and promotion of the health of individuals of all ages and in all conditions. Once the training has ended, the healthcare assistant can work in the various services of the public and private healthcare institutions, both as an employee or freelance. The degree course in Health Assistance provides access to a second cycle degree in Prevention Health Professions Sciences or to a Professional Master's Programme – first level.

[Questo è un testo di esempio] Un corso dalla lunga e consolidata tradizione a livello nazionale e internazionale, frutto di una fitta rete di relazioni intessute nel tempo con le istituzioni culturali cittadine. Proprio in una città spesso ai vertici delle classifiche nazionali per la qualità del vivere, grazie alla contiguità con il polo culturale e museale della Pilotta, riusciamo a unire teoria e sperimentazione sui materiali nei campi dell’arte moderna e contemporanea, del cinema e del teatro.

The degree course in Midwifery is a course that has a long history and tradition, but has always kept in step with the times.
Thanks to the extensive network of agreements with healthcare facilities in the area, right from the first year you will have the opportunity to attend training placements in numerous qualified settings. The teaching staff, largely drawn from the world of the midwifery profession, guarantees high quality teaching.
During your studies, you will become aware of the midwife's many areas of expertise and the importance of her role for women. You will be able to carry out exercises using new technology simulators at the SIMLAB teaching laboratory and the teaching laboratory in the Obstetrics-Gynaecology Clinic.
The degree course is geared towards internationalisation. In addition to the Erasmus+ Programme, our cooperation protocol with the 'Universidade de São Paulo' in Brazil will enable those who pass the selection process based on their curriculum vitae to simultaneously acquire a degree in ‘Obstetrícia' at the Brazilian university and thus the possibility of practising the profession in both EU countries and Brazil.

The Course of Studies in Nursing at the University of Parma provides for the training of professional nurses, who are responsible for the duties envisaged by the Ministerial Decree of the Ministry of Health dated 14 September 1994, no. 739 and subsequent amendments and additions.
The nurse will be responsible for delivering care aimed at resolving a person's health problems in preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative terms.
The course spreads its 330 students per year over three teaching locations: Parma Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Parma Azienda USL, Piacenza Azienda USL. 

A course with a long and established tradition at national level, based in a city at the top of the league tables for quality of living.

Practical and training activities are carried out at the Unità Operativa Complessa di Oculistica (Ophthalmology Operating Unit) of the Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, where all branches of modern clinical and surgical ophthalmology are practised, with cutting-edge or quite simply innovative equipment and technology.

The course is aimed at providing the basis for understanding the biological and physiological phenomena related to vision, the principles of diagnosis and treatment of ocular motility and binocular vision disorders, methods for the re-education of visual function impairment, and the instrumental examinations indicated for licensing or for the most common eye diseases.

The course also includes attendance at specialised affiliated facilities such as the 'Cardinal Ferrari' rehabilitation centre in Fontanellato (PR) and the Parma branch of the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired. Students will also attend the school screening programme for amblyopia carried out by dedicated personnel.

You will be able to count on historically consolidated training expertise, thanks to a field of study that has its origins in 1973 with the establishment in Parma of the Special School for Rehabilitation Physiotherapy Technicians, later transformed into a University Diploma and, finally, into a Degree Course in 2002. What awaits you is a course with a high level of teaching, both theoretical and practical, in a setting of modern facilities and a close relationship with teaching staff, tutors and guides. Thanks to the extensive network of agreements with both public and private healthcare facilities in the area, you will have the opportunity to attend internships in numerous specialist settings that will represent future job opportunities. You will be able to use studios equipped with treatment couches and rehabilitation equipment for simulations and classrooms for full-group teaching. The course is enriched by Elective Teaching Activities: Maitland Approach, Cognitive Therapeutic Exercise, Principles of the Neuromuscular Proprioceptive Facilitation Approach, Principles of the Bobath Approach, Supporting Physiotherapists and Patients through Motivational Counselling, Research Methodology, Rehabilitating Burn Patients, Visceral Rehabilitation, Posture and Rehabilitation, Gait Analysis: from Theory to Application in Clinical Practice, Methodology and Clinical Reasoning in Manual Therapy. You can also take advantage of traineeships before and after graduation, both in Italy and abroad, with the Erasmus+ and Overworld programmes.

[Questo è un testo di esempio] Un corso dalla lunga e consolidata tradizione a livello nazionale e internazionale, frutto di una fitta rete di relazioni intessute nel tempo con le istituzioni culturali cittadine. Proprio in una città spesso ai vertici delle classifiche nazionali per la qualità del vivere, grazie alla contiguità con il polo culturale e museale della Pilotta, riusciamo a unire teoria e sperimentazione sui materiali nei campi dell’arte moderna e contemporanea, del cinema e del teatro.

[Questo è un testo di esempio] Un corso dalla lunga e consolidata tradizione a livello nazionale e internazionale, frutto di una fitta rete di relazioni intessute nel tempo con le istituzioni culturali cittadine. Proprio in una città spesso ai vertici delle classifiche nazionali per la qualità del vivere, grazie alla contiguità con il polo culturale e museale della Pilotta, riusciamo a unire teoria e sperimentazione sui materiali nei campi dell’arte moderna e contemporanea, del cinema e del teatro.

Speech therapists carry out activities aimed at the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of pathologies and functional alterations that cause voice, speech, oral and written language, calculation, swallowing and communication disabilities in the various age groups (developmental, adult and geriatric). Communication, especially verbal communication, is related to the development of neuropsychological skills, perceptual, cognitive and control systems, which are studied in depth on the degree course, as they are fundamental to the understanding of patients' clinical pictures. The scope of intervention of a speech therapist is very broad and covers pathologies and disorders with different aetiologies (organic, functional and psychological). The tools used range from educational, play and health materials to digital and high-tech tools. It is therefore clear that the rehabilitation techniques that the student will learn over the three years will be wide ranging and specific to each area of intervention.

If the world of sport, fitness and general human health is your passion, this is the course for you.

You will be able to combine university knowledge with expertise from the world of sport, also thanks to the agreements signed with CUS Parma (University Sports Centre), CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee), CIP (Italian Paralympic Committee) and many other sports federations.

The course is aimed at learning the fundamental aspects of specific motor and sports disciplines for individuals of different ages and genders, and at promoting the graduate's faster integration into the productive fabric, not only locally.

If the world of sport, fitness and general human health is your passion, this is the course for you.

You will be able to combine university knowledge with expertise from the world of sport, also thanks to the agreements signed with CUS Parma (University Sports Centre), CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee), CIP (Italian Paralympic Committee) and many other sports federations.

The course is aimed at learning the fundamental aspects of specific motor and sports disciplines for individuals of different ages and genders, and at promoting the graduate's faster integration into the productive fabric, not only locally.

The course aims to train a graduate who can enter the labour market with an original curriculum and already oriented in terms of professional skills. In fact, the course offers students several curricula, identified on the basis of the area's peculiarities and employment needs: "Biotechnology for prevention and therapy', 'Biotechnology applied to animal production and food safety' and 'Biotechnology applied to regenerative and restorative medicine.

The course has a strong and growing attractiveness due to the educational value of the theoretical lectures characterised by a multidisciplinary vocation in the following fields of interest: area of management, area of research, area of training and didactics and advanced clinical area (nursing/obstetric clinical leadership experience).

At the same time, great importance is attached to internship experiences, as positively noted by the evaluations of students and graduates; in fact, internship experiences in line with the course's priority directions and organised on a 1:1 basis with senior figures of the specific professional profile are envisaged.

Throughout the course, it is possible to avail of the constant support of a tutor who will follow each student from matriculation to graduation.

Attendance at theoretical classes is compulsory for 50% of each block (or integrated course) in order to allow working students to enter.

The university provides annual scholarships for students who wish to try their hand at student tutoring.

WHY PARMA? This course allows you to develop strongly multidisciplinary professional skills, at the intersection of psychology, behavioural biology and cognitive neuroscience, in the context of an integrated training project. In addition, the student will have the opportunity to study with some of the best psychobiologists and cognitive neuroscientists in our country and to acquire theoretical and methodological tools that will enable him or her to work as a psychologist with a solid scientific basis. In Parma you can learn about general and physiological psychology, developmental psychology, neuropsychology, elements of psychiatry and psychopharmacology, applied statistics, behavioural biology, ethology and cognitive neuroscience.

If the world of sport, exercise and general human health is your passion, this is the course for you.
You will be able to combine university knowledge with expertise and experience from the world of sport thanks to the collaboration with the National Olympic Committees (CONI, CIP), National Sports Federations and the University Sports Centre of Parma (CUS).
Theoretical/practical on-site courses and internship activities to be carried out at external, national and/or international facilities, consistent with the educational aims of the degree course, are foreseen.

The training course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage, organise and conduct motor activities aimed at the general population, with or without congenital and/or acquired pathologies, and at athletes of all age groups.

The Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery consists of six years and is established within the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Parma. Pursuant to Decree Law No. 18 of 17 March 2020, obtaining a degree qualifies one to practise as a surgeon, subject to obtaining a pass mark in the qualifying practical-assessment internships (tot. 15 ECTS credits).

The Degree Course aims to achieve the educational objectives defined below.

Graduates of degree programmes in Medicine and Surgery must obtain the scientific basis and theoretical-practical preparation required under Directive 75/363/EEC for the exercise of the medical profession and the methodology and culture necessary for the practice of lifelong learning.

The course will enable the acquisition of the level of professional, decision-making and operational autonomy deriving from a holistic approach to health problems, of healthy or ill persons also in relation to the surrounding chemical-physical, biological and social environment.

Attendance at the Degree COurse will also make it possible to appreciate the fruitful and harmonious collaboration between the course's governing bodies (president, professors/instructors, technical-administrative staff, students) who work in synergy to pursue its continuous improvement. The qualifying aspects can be summarised as follows:

- the support for teaching activities provided by state-of-the-art facilities and tools (e.g. the organisation of the professionalising training activities, in search of the most effective operational tools; - the synergy between the university and hospital components; - the integration of the course with local healthcare facilities; - the implementation of innovative projects; - the carrying out of activities that highlight the role of healthcare personnel in social and development cooperation projects in poor countries; - the high international characterisation, with student mobility within programmes with various (European and non-European) countries.

The University of Parma is among the oldest academic institutions in Europe. After the foundation of the Palatine School by Charlemagne and Alcuin of York in 781 A.D., on March 13th 962 A.D. emperor Otto I conferred to the Bishop of Parma, Uberto, the power to order and elect legal leaders, with an Empire-wide authority. The historian Ernest Dümmler defined Parma a 'celebrated seat of learning' since the 11th century, attracting students from countries beyond the Alps, and its growing popularity was so high that Napoleon maximised its jurisdiction.

The Medical School of the University of Parma has now decided to develop this European and international vocation by opening a novel Medicine & Surgery course, entirely held in English, in the nearby city of Piacenza, which offers a hospital system that is not shared with other medical courses but will be uniquely dedicated to the new medical degree.

Students will develop a comprehensive medical knowledge, from health promotion to emergency medicine, from applied research to the latest medical technologies to health economics and management.

[Questo è un testo di esempio] Un corso dalla lunga e consolidata tradizione a livello nazionale e internazionale, frutto di una fitta rete di relazioni intessute nel tempo con le istituzioni culturali cittadine. Proprio in una città spesso ai vertici delle classifiche nazionali per la qualità del vivere, grazie alla contiguità con il polo culturale e museale della Pilotta, riusciamo a unire teoria e sperimentazione sui materiali nei campi dell’arte moderna e contemporanea, del cinema e del teatro.