PhD in MEDICAL-SURGICAL APPLIED SCIENCES

Educational goals and objectives

MEDICAL-SURGICAL APPLIED SCIENCES

The PhD programme is open to holders of second-cycle degrees (ie. Masters Degrees), or similar academic title, awarded overseas and recognized as equivalent to an Italian degree. The programme aims to prepare students for scientific research in field of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery, Plastic Regenerative Surgery, Clinical Nutrition, Innovative Technologies and Medical Engineering for Surgery, Forensic Sciences. For the chosen research areas, PhD students develop the following specific knowledges and skills: • Oncoplastic Breast Surgery area: students will address the following issues: sentinel lymph node and radio-guided surgery in breast disease, radical and reconstructive breast surgery, etc; • Plastic Regenerative Surgery area: students will address the following issues: applied surgical techniques and modern methods of reconstructive and aesthetic surgery with particular attention to the use of cellular components, e.g. mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSC), biological and synthetic scaffolds and autologous hemoderivatives for regenerative purposes, i.e. platelet rich plasma (PRP) and peripheral-blood mononucleated cells (PBMNC) • Clinical Nutrition area: students will address the following issues: role of body composition and proinflammatory cytokines in diseases and biological therapies, association between body composition and genetic polymorphisms, nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics, comparison of methods of evaluation of body composition, comparison of organic agriculture and conventional production on health, study of effects of Italian Mediterranean Diet on health; • Forensic sciences area: students address the following issues criminal liability, civil liability, ethical liability and administrative liability of the doctor, analysis all the judgments in the field of medical liability.

Available Positions and Scholarships

University scholarship	4	University scholarship reserved to foreign applicants	0	Department scholarship	0
Scholarship funded by private research institution	0	Scholarship funded by private non-research institution	0	Scholarship funded by public research institution	0
Scholarship funded by public non-research institution	0	PhD position under national research programs	0	PhD position under EU research programs	0
Foreign independent candidates	3	Employee of private research institution/organisation under a cooperation agreement	2	Employee of private non-research institution/organisation under a cooperation agreement	2
Employee of public research institution/organisation under a cooperation agreement	3	Employee of public non-research institution/organisation under a cooperation agreement	6	PhD under higher education and research apprenticeship contract at a private research institution/organisation	0
PhD under higher education and research apprenticeship contract at a private non-research institution/organisation	0	PhD under higher education and research apprenticeship contract at a public research institution/organisation	0	PhD under higher education and research apprenticeship contract at a public non-research institution/organisation	0
No scholarship	5

Self-certification of the academic qualification obtained through Model A:

• Master’s Degree
• Single-cycle Degree
• Specialist Degree
• Old-system Degree
• Degree obtained abroad corresponding to EQF Level 7
• provided that they belong to the following classes: All classes