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Responsible Center: postgraduate unit Location: Alcorcon Campus
Modality: from distance Title code: 6300 Orientation: Profile
Number of ECTS Credits: 60 ECTS Duration of the Master: an academic year
Public prices: See table
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Director of the Master: Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Corral Liria. Telephone: 91 488 8581
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University master's information: Phone: 91 665 5060 Inquiries Mailbox
Student attention: Student Help Box Suggestions and complaints box
Basic Information
What knowledge will I acquire with this Master?
Among the knowledge that will be acquired are the following:
- Theoretical framework of health and gender.
- Techniques and methodologies for addressing gender at different levels (biological, social, psychological, etc.).
- How to carry out a research project on health and gender.
- How research on health and gender is designed and carried out.
- How the issue of health and gender is developing both in Spain and in a global context.
- How it fits in the professional and labor world in this discipline.
- The legal and socio-economic environment in which health and gender are developed.
Is this degree official according to the regulations required by the European Higher Education Area?
Yes (final verification report is attached), starting the first course in the academic year 2010-11.
Final verification report turned out FAVORABLE
What is the minimum number of credits for which I can enroll?
You can see it in the rules of permanence in this link
Recommended income profile
Students who have possession of an official Spanish university degree or another issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that authorizes access to Master's degrees in the country that issued the degree.
The preferred entry profiles are: Graduates, diploma holders or graduates in the field of Health Sciences:
- Degree in Nursing.
- Degree in Physiotherapy.
- Degree in Medicine.
- Degree in Dentistry.
- Degree in Psychology.
- Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- Degree in Pharmacy.
- Degree in Podiatry.
- Degree in Biology.
Objectives
The general objective is the integral formation of the student in the field of gender and health.
For this, they will acquire a solid knowledge of the conceptual bases of the discipline, as well as of the existing techniques. This will allow you to achieve two specific objectives:
- Being able to develop and evaluate research projects in the field of health and gender
- Being able to propose and develop research in the field of health and gender that represents an advance in scientific knowledge.
Competences
General skills
- Acquisition by the student of advanced training, of a specialized and multidisciplinary nature, oriented towards specialization in the field of health and gender.
- Promote initiation in research tasks, through the knowledge and application of quantitative and qualitative techniques for the analysis of statistical data.
- Be able to carry out independent research and interpret results at an advanced level.
- Show originality in carrying out work within the discipline of specialization.
- Identify relevant sources of information, and their contents.
- Master the technical and computer tools necessary to be able to carry out an applied study.
- Apply deductive and inductive reasoning to the analysis and description of reality with respect to gender and health.
Specific skills
- Students will be able to demonstrate a systematic understanding of the field of Gender and Health, applying the different research designs developed in the master (quantitative and qualitative designs)
- Students will be able to conceive, design, put into practice and adopt a research project with scientific and academic rigor in the field of Gender and Health.
- That students are able to make a contribution through: a) original research that expands the frontiers of knowledge by developing a substantial corpus in Gender and health, part of which deserves referenced publication at a national or international level, and/or ) an original research project (not previously submitted) to a national and international call for research on Gender and Health.
- That students are able to carry out a critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas within the field of Gender and Health.
- Acquire knowledge of the legislative implications at the local and national level that may have an impact on Gender and Health.
- Acquire knowledge about ethical and bioethical principles in the field of Gender and Health, at a clinical and research level.
- Acquire knowledge about national and international regulations on Ethics, data protection and on healthcare and research ethics committees
- Knowledge of the physiological bases of the reproductive process of women.
- Knowledge of the physiological bases of tumor processes in women with oncological pathology.
- Know and apply the methods of human reproduction in women in the presence of health and disease, knowing the indications and contraindications, adapting actions to quality standards, scientific evidence and critical reasoning, reviewing and adjusting treatments.
- Know and apply the methods of gynecological oncology in women, in their different evolutionary stages, knowing the indications and contraindications, adapting actions to quality standards, scientific evidence and critical reasoning, reviewing and adjusting treatments.
Admission and enrollment
Admission:
The requirements for access to the proposed title are according to article 18, of Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28:
- Possession of an official Spanish Graduate or Graduate university degree or equivalent is a condition for accessing a Master's Degree, or, where appropriate, having another University Master's degree, or titles of the same level as the Spanish Bachelor's or Master's degree issued by universities and higher education institutions in an EHEA country that in that country allow access to Master's degrees.
- In the same way, people in possession of titles from educational systems that are not part of the EHEA, which are equivalent to a Bachelor's degree, will be able to access a Master's Degree in the Spanish university system, without the need for homologation of the title, but verification by of the university of the level of training that they imply, as long as in the country where said title was issued it allows access to university postgraduate level studies. In no case will access through this route imply the homologation of the previous degree held by the person concerned or its recognition for other purposes than that of carrying out the Master's degree.
Recommended requirements:
They will be able to access the master's degrees that are related to Gender and Health. The preferred entry profiles are: Graduates, diploma holders or graduates in the field of Health Sciences.
- Degree in Nursing.
- Degree in Physiotherapy.
- Degree in Medicine.
- Degree in Dentistry.
- Degree in Psychology.
- Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- Degree in Pharmacy.
- Degree in Podiatry.
- Degree in Biology.
Candidate selection:
It is carried out by the body responsible for the program. The selection of the applicants will be through the presentation of a standardized curriculum with the specific profile required. For the selection, criteria of academic training, teaching experience, research experience, professional experience and other merits will be met.
These criteria will be weighted, accounting for the total score of the scale for admission.
Offer of places: 30 seats. If the minimum number of students envisaged is not reached in a course, the University may choose not to open the teaching group.
Training itinerary
Master's Teaching Guides
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Training Itinerary
| Códigos | Subject | Semester | Type | Number of ECTS |
| 630001 | Investigation methodology | 1 º | Mandatory | 9 |
| 630002 | Applied Methodology | 1 º | Mandatory | 9 |
| 630003 | Evidence-Based Clinical Practice in Gender and Health | 1 º | Mandatory | 3 |
| 630004 | Gender and social inequality | 1 º | Mandatory | 6 |
| 630005 | Bioethics and biolegal | 1 º | Mandatory | 3 |
| 630006 | Analysis of the Gender Perspective in Health * | 2 º | Mandatory | 6 |
| 630007 | Master's thesis | 2 º | Mandatory | 24 |
Mobility programs
University Master's degrees, due to their duration and characteristics, in general do not specifically contemplate the mobility of their students. However, the Rey Juan Carlos University has different mobility programs for both students and University workers (PDI and PAS) and has procedures for collecting and analyzing information on these mobility programs.
Regulation
- Academic Calendar
- Regulations for enrollment and permanence in university master's degrees at the URJC
- academic waiver
- Refund of Public Prices
- Public prices for university master's degrees
- Exemption from the prices of official master's and doctoral studies for the sons and daughters under 25 years of age of victims of gender violence
- External Internships
- University Master's Thesis
- Review and Complaint of the Continuous Evaluation in the studies of university master's degrees of the URJC
- Acknowledgments / Adaptations of university master's degrees
- Simultaneity of URJC university master's degree studies
- Regulations of the School of Official Masters
- Addendum to the protocol for adapting teaching at the School of Official Master's Degrees
- Royal Decree 1125/2003, of September 5, which establishes the European credit system and the qualification system in official university degrees valid throughout the national territory
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Quality guarantee
Results report
Once the monitoring of the Master's Degree has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information on the results obtained in the monitoring of said Degree is displayed, differentiated by academic year.
Report by course:
General information collection plan
Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are planned:
- Student profile
- Teacher evaluation
- Degree of satisfaction:
- Of the students
- of the graduates
- From the Faculty
- Administration and Services Staff
- Labor insertion
- External internships:
- Satisfaction of interns
- External tutor satisfaction
- Employer satisfaction
Survey results:
Improvement actions
The Quality Assurance System of the Rey Juan Carlos University establishes that the degree's Quality Assurance Commission will annually analyze the information derived from the degree's indicators and prepare a report that will include improvement plans if the results so indicate.
- Improvement actions 2020 / 2021
- Improvement actions 2019 / 2020
- Improvement actions 2018 / 2019
- Improvement actions 2017 / 2018
- Improvement actions 2016 / 2017
- Improvement actions 2015 / 2016
- Improvement actions 2014 / 2015
- Improvement actions 2013 / 2014
- Improvement actions 2012 / 2013
- Improvement actions 2011 / 2012
- Improvement actions 2010 / 2011
Renewal of accreditation
The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.
In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.”