8 July open day from 14.30 pm - "Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management" and "Medicine and Surgery" in English will be presented together with the other 9 courses
4 July 2019 – A food technologist able to follow the product from the field to the point of sale. A doctor with international training, accustomed to observing the patient since the first year of studies. The two professional figures are the novelties of the training offer that theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma will present the8 July from 14.30 hours at the 'Open days. The two new degree courses of "Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management" and "Medicine and Surgery" in English are added to the 9 training courses already active at the University.
Registration to access the admission tests for the courses is already open. There are 2019 places available for the 2020/65 academic year for "Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management" and 60 for "Medicine and Surgery" (of which 20 are non-EU).
'L'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma has been training experts in Food and Nutrition Sciences for 20 years", remember the teacher Laura De Gara, president of the degree course in Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management. "The constant relationship with the agri-food sector has put us in front of the need for the new professional figure of the food technologist, capable of managing a complex supply chain". At an international level, the figure of the food technologist is present and foreseen by the offer of other universities. Special features of the courseUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, which emerged in the discussion with the stakeholders for the enhancement of made in Italy, is "the strong contamination with the engineering area, the attention towards the regulatory and economic aspects, with which a food technologist inevitably has to deal, and the nutritional skills, to understand when a food can be important for the prevention and human health. We have foreseen that students will come into contact with companies through internships and lectures by experts who can tell what the fundamental aspects and innovative trends are".
The two new degree programs are "particularly topical for the formation of young people", comments Raffaele Calabrò, Rector Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. "Ours is a young university, open to the needs of the world of youth and the job market with the desire and ability to look to a future that is already in the short term. Today, medical graduates must have experience abroad and know the medicine in other countries". But Medicine and Surgery is not just medicine in the English language, "he wants to bring clinical subjects closer to basic ones, connecting students with patients from the first year", concludes the Rector Calabrò.
