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Master's degree in Gender and Health Research

Responsible Center: Faculty of Health Sciences    Location: Alcorcon Campus
Modality: from distance  Title code: 6374 Orientation: Pro
Number of ECTS Credits: 60 ECTS  Duration of the Master: an academic year
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Director of the Master: Prof. Dr. Inmaculada Corral Liria. Telephone: 91 488 8581
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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

Favorable report first modification

Favorable report second modification

Favorable report third modification

Is it necessary to pass an access test?

It is not necessary.

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

CC3 - Organize advanced knowledge and demonstrate in a scientific and technological or highly specialized research context. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC1 - Describe the advanced concepts of scientific research methodology that allow understanding situations in health and disease processes with a gender perspective. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC2 - Identify the different methodological concepts necessary to carry out scientific research. TYPE:Knowledge or content

CC4 - Explain the evolution of complex situations through the development of new and innovative work methodologies adapted to the scientific/research field in which their activity is carried out. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC5 - Deepen the understanding of the person's health situation with other members of their family, social and professional circle, taking gender into account. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC6 - Analyze concepts of advanced, specialized, multidisciplinary training, aimed at specialization in the field of health and gender. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC7 - Integrate knowledge about care with and without a gender perspective and the consequences on health. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC8 - Understand the concepts of scientific research methodology, scientific evidence and tasks that allow understanding situations in health and disease processes, applying quantitative and qualitative techniques and analyzing data with a gender perspective. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC9 - Describe the repercussions of the sex-gender system in the educational, work, and body practices linked to gender-marked modeling processes. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC10 - Understand the importance of humanized care in health and disease processes and develop activities focused on personal needs at a biopsychosocial level. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CC11 - Assimilate the complexity of sustainable development from critical, systemic and interdisciplinary thinking, to understand how professional activity interacts with society and the environment, locally and globally, to identify possible challenges, risks and impacts on health with a focus on gender. TYPE: Knowledge or content

CH1 - Apply research knowledge to apply the research method and the different qualitative and quantitative techniques for different health processes: Developing research questions, methodological designs, evaluating and interpreting results that allow developing Health and Disease projects or studies, under a gender perspective. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CH2 - Carry out a detailed and well-founded understanding of the technical and practical aspects and work methodology in one or more fields of study in relation to the health and disease process and gender. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CH3 - Apply and integrate knowledge, its understanding, its scientific foundation and its problem-solving abilities, including multidisciplinary social or ethical contexts. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CH4 - Explain and identify clinical practices and situations, providing more advanced care by debating ethical issues and values ​​in different socio-health settings with a gender focus. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CH5 - Prepare, present and defend an original or original work/project, identifying the research and gender and health skills acquired in the degree. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CH6 - Prepare and develop work to improve health disorders from an interdisciplinary perspective, valuing and treating with a gender perspective. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CH7 - Recognizes the legislative implications of gender in social and health care and education in the values ​​of equality between men and women. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CH8 - Identify and interpret gender inequalities and situations of vulnerability in health through the analysis of scientific research, sources of information and available evidence. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CH9 - Acquire a rational criterion to investigate and select a specific methodology with its subsequent data collection, data analysis, express results, engage in discussion and draw conclusions when carrying out an investigation. TYPE: Skills or abilities

CP1 - Evaluate, identify and select the scientific theory and the precise methodology of their fields of study to formulate judgments based on information, including when precise and pertinent a reflection on the social or ethical responsibility linked to the solution proposed in each case, at a legislative level and all with a gender focus. TYPE: Competencies

CP2 - Integrate into an SDG project Sustainable Development Goals, principles of equality, opportunities, universal accessibility for people with disabilities, democratic values, culture of peace, health and illness process and gender impact TYPE: Competencies

CP3 - Identify, distinguish and prioritize physical, psychological and social problems as a result of inequality between men and women, different situations of violence and/or abuse, including gender and family violence, as well as circumstances of social vulnerability, to promote the promotion, encouragement, prevention and early detection and rehabilitation of affected people TYPE: Competencies

CP4 - Evaluate the impact of gender on individual and population health, as well as social and health responses TYPE: Competencies

CP5 - Identify the legislative implications at the individual, group, local and national level that may have on gender and health, as well as ethical considerations and bioethical principles in research. Prepares, interprets practices, works and studies on Equality Rights in the field of health TYPE: Competencies

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

GENERAL ACCESS CRITERIA

The specific qualifications that will facilitate access to the Master are:

  • Degree, Diploma and Bachelor's Degree
  • 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

Health Sciences professionals with interest in the field of research with a gender perspective.

CONDITIONS OR SPECIAL ACCESS TESTS:

If necessary, assessment of the student's curriculum, taking into account their professional experience, their projection in relation to the objectives of the master's degree, as well as their academic record.

In the event that the demand exceeds the supply of places, the following admission criteria will be used:

  • Final grade of the academic record of the access qualification
  • Possibility of personal interview with the applicant

In the event of a greater influx of students, they will be admitted based on their academic certification, research and professional experience and other merits such as courses related to the master's degree, according to the published scale of this degree.

See scale

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.

See admission and enrollment

Training itinerary

Master's Teaching Guides

ACCESS TO ALL UNIVERSITY TEACHING GUIDES

Training Itinerary

 

Material resources

Material resources

External Internships

This master's degree does not plan to carry out External Internships

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.

URJC Mobility

Regulation

STUDENTS

TEACHING COORDINATION

COEXISTENCE REGIME

SCHOOL INSURANCE

ASSOCIATIONS

EVALUATION

  • Article 6.1.2. The favorable resolution of the request for total cancellation of registration does not necessarily imply the refund of the amount paid by the student. To do this, the requirements established in the Article 10.3 of the present regulations.
  • Article 11.3.  The extension of the period of permanence will be requested through the procedure established for this purpose by the Rey Juan Carlos University in the electronic office, within the established period. The Rector may authorize the continuation of studies in those cases in which exceptional causes, duly documented, have affected the academic performance of the students., valid for that academic year (up to a maximum of one year). 
  • Article 11.4.  In accordance with what is established by the Article 4 of these regulations, those students whose request to remain is resolved favorably will have to enroll in all the remaining subjects to complete their studies.
  • Article 11.5.  For subjects with an indefinite call, once the extension of the permanence period is granted, the fees corresponding to the second and successive registrations will be paid according to the corresponding Public Price Decree as long as they have been previously enrolled in that subject.
  • Article 12.4.  Once this is granted, the student must enroll in accordance with the provisions of the Article 4 of the present regulations.
  • Article 12.5.  For subjects with an indefinite call, once continuity in the University Master's studies is granted, the fees corresponding to the second and successive registrations will be paid according to the corresponding Public Price Decree as long as they have been previously enrolled in that subject.

 

Quality guarantee

External monitoring report

RUCT link

BOCM Link

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Composition of the commission

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.

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.”

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