17 Bachelor Programs in Health Care in Italy for 2024

The Bachelor’s degree offers a unique educational pathway, targeting people who aim at taking professional care of animals and protecting their wellbeing. The Program provides knowledge, skills and competences to develop qualified human resources specialised in animal care, husbandry and welfare, able to operate in different international contexts. Multidisciplinary field experiences, including visits to zoological parks, rehabilitation centres, research facilities, are organised to introduce students to the practical activity.

The study course in Hearing Prosthetics Techniques aims to train professional figures in the field of hearing prosthetics.

The Bachelor's degree in Genomics provides the theoretical and practical basis for training a professional capable of applying IT, mathematical and statistical skills to the analysis of genomic data and, consequently, to the analysis of transcriptomic, proteomic and epigenomic data, the biology of systems and metagenomics, in prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and humans.

The main aim of the Single-Cycle Degree Programme in Medicine and Surgery is to provide medical graduates with the knowledge and skills required to practice a modern kind of Medicine; they must be able to incorporate health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation into their practice, and they must be able to do so in an international context as well.

The students of the University of Parma, Course of Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing are enrolled in a three-years lasting full-time course.

The Course in Midwifery is a three years course and aims at the theoretical-practical training for the future midwife. The focus is on in-depth knowledge of physiology, promotion, and maintenance of women's health at all stages of life with particular attention to the mother-infant couple.

The degree course in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques trains the biomedical laboratory technician, a healthcare professional who carries out biomedical and biotechnological activities in public and private analysis and research laboratories, with full autonomy and responsibility for the acts for which he/she is responsible. These include in particular techniques of molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, virology, pharmacotoxicology, immunology, clinical pathology, haematology, cytology, histopathology and pathological anatomy. Graduates achieve professional competence through theoretical training and substantial internship activity.

Graduates are health care professionals who operate and maintain equipment related to extracorporeal circulation and hemodynamic techniques and must acquire a sound background in the basic sciences and be proficient in English, both in the area of competence and for the exchange of general information.

The course of study in Dental Hygiene aims to provide students with training for the practice of the profession of Dental Hygienist, as well as a level of professional, decision-making and operational autonomy such as to ensure, at the end of the training course, full mastery of all the necessary skills and their immediate expendability in the work environment.

Graduates in the CdL in Dietetics are operators of the health professions in the technical-assistance area and in this context they occupy an irreplaceable position in guaranteeing the well-being of individuals and a good quality of life, as:

The course in Medical Radiology Imaging and Radiotherapy Technicians of the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience of our University has historical roots in the Sienese radiological reality, which has been at the forefront since the 1930s.

The degree course in Midwifery aims to train the professional who works autonomously and responsibly in the field of care and treatment, global, sexual, and reproductive health, and protects the psycho-physical and social well-being of women, the fetus and newborn, the family and the community. Graduates in midwifery are trained in the basic disciplines, physiology, and pathology of the Obstetrical, Neonatological, and Gynaecological Area also through the tutored clinical internship, which allows a progressive acquisition of knowledge, behaviour, and practical and communication skills.

Graduates in Nursing are the health professionals with responsibility for general nursing, preventive, curative, palliative, and rehabilitative care; they participate in the identification of the health needs of the person and the community; they identify the nursing care needs of the person and the community and formulate the related objectives; they plan, manage and evaluate the nursing care intervention making use of support staff where necessary; they ensure the correct application of diagnostic-therapeutic prescriptions.

The objective of the course is to train graduates in physical therapy who are qualified to carry out in their own right and independently, or in collaboration with other professionals, functional assessment, as well as activities directed at the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of disabilities through the use of instrumental therapies, manual therapies, massage therapy, cognitive and psychomotor therapies. These activities are aimed at functional recovery and rehabilitation of motor functions.

The Bachelor’s degree discloses one of the most intriguing contemporary domains, where theoretical study and experimental clinical activities are on the same level. Enhanced by seminars and workshops, it provides strong foundations in psychology subjects, such as brain and behaviour, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology and Communication, Clinical Psychology and foundations of Health Psychology.