Offering global training in medicine and health professions by focusing on greater internationalization of degree courses. This is the path chosen by theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma to enrich the offer of international experiences to students and create aware professionals in a global world driven by the complexity of phenomena such as pandemics, migrations, digitalization.
This is how theInternational Academic Advisory Board of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery UCBM met for the first time on September 23, 2024 with a large participation of students and teachers, demonstrating the interest of the entire Faculty in the project.
"Students need a training project that takes them out of the strictly national dimension of the profession and offers them global level training. – explained the coordinator of the Advisory Board, Professor Maurizio Trevisan - Globalization, increased migration flows, pandemics, the growing mobility of healthcare professionals, and the enormous impact that global technological progress has on all aspects of medicine, make it urgent to open university education to an international perspective. Only in this way will our students be able to work as professionals in global medicine".
The International Academic Advisory Board of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery UCBM will work with Faculty leadership and meet periodically with the entire student and faculty community to promote innovation and globalization of medical education and research, strengthening the existing training project. In addition to periodic meetings with professors and students of the University, the Board members will contribute to developing large-scale exchange programs of teachers and students and to identify possible collaborations in research.
The initial core of the committee is composed of the Prof. Mark Cohen, Dean Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Senior Vice President University of Illinois and Chief Academic officer Carle Health; Prof. Glen Gaulton, Vice Dean and Director Center for Global Health, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania; Prof Henry of Wax, Chairman Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Saint Louis University; Prof Saverio Stranges, Chairman Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University.
"These are very high-profile figures, with extensive experience in university medical training and a strong propensity for innovation. – underlined the Dean of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, teacher. Vincenzo di Lazzaro - The choice to include in the Board two Italians who have been called to cover leading roles in very important North American universities after graduating in Italy is not a coincidence. Their deep knowledge of the Italian and international reality will allow them to give a particularly significant and concrete boost to our training project".
The committee is coordinated by Professor Maurizio Trevisan who, after having held the role of President and Rector of numerous North American universities, returned to Italy in UCBM as a contact for internationalization.
