Entry requirements

This course is available as both lifelong learning and initial training. Prerequisites are either the Master 1 level in political science or the Master 1 level in any Master’s course offered in universities, in executive schools, in director of care courses and in medical and paramedical courses.

Benefits of the program

This course offers an original style of professional training because it focuses on political science as a specific discipline. Initially oriented towards health policy and public debate on health issues, it differs from other health-oriented professional training in the social sciences and humanities, which focus more on law, economics or philosophy. Furthermore, it emphasises interdisciplinarity by taking advantage of the multi-faceted nature of political science as a discipline, a crossroads between social sciences and political philosophy, and offers support in the preparation of the dissertation.

Acquired skills

Holders of this qualification will master writing techniques (texts, dissertations, reports) and oral presentation skills. They will have skills in understanding, defining problems and researching. They will be able to address the issues that emerge with the contemporary transformation of public action: health care system reform, risk policies, participatory engineering, etc.

International

The course has no partnerships abroad

Capacities

25

Course venue

Other course venue

Campus Saint-Antoine - Centre de formation Picpus à Paris

Your future career

Carrying out projects in the field of health democracy and users' rights, participation in ethics training, study groups, publications in professional journals, books, etc., setting up and running ethics committees or ethics groups in hospitals and medical and medico-social establishments, participation in the activities of the regional ethics spaces; carrying out professional projects relating to political and administrative issues in the field of health and medico-social care.

Study objectives

The objective of this course is to provide healthcare professionals and stakeholders with analytical tools to help them understand the functioning of public health policies (how healthcare systems have functioned historically and in different countries).

Major thematics of study

Political science, philosophy, sociology

Calendar

The course is divided into two semesters between October and June, with a two-day training session each month on Wednesdays and Thursdays at the Picpus Training Centre in Paris. Each monthly session lasts two days. Thesis defence is held every year in September.