Presentation
The doctoral program in research Applied Medicine (DIMA) is part of the School of doctorate that the University of Navarra has implemented, in the framework established by the RD 99/2011, as a planning, coordination and monitoring body of the doctorate programmes, and the manager of its development and organisation is the School of Medicine.
It is a programme adapted to the European Higher Education Area Education that meets the requirements set out in Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, which establishes the organisation of official university education. It was evaluated by the National Agency of Quality assessment (National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation) and verified by the committee of Universities (10 June 2009). It has official status and is registered at Registry of Universities Centers and Qualifications (BOE of 10 February 2010).
The programme has been adapted to the verification procedures foreseen by RD 99/2011, of 28 January, which regulates official doctoral studies (BOE of 10 February 2011), having obtained a favourable report favourable National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation and positively verified by the committee of Universities.
The doctoral program has been distinguished with the accredited specialization of Excellence (MEE 2011-0229) by the Ministry of Education for the academic years 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 (evaluation weighted global National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation: 84 out of 100 according to resolution of October 6, 2011, of the General Universities administrative office (BOE of October 20, 2011).
The University of Navarra began its activity in 1952, two years after the start of the programs of study of Medicine. From the beginning, the School of Medicine has been characterised by paying special attention to the research and to the training of researchers. The research has acquired a special prominence in the plans of the University in the 1990s. The "Plan de research University of Navarra" (PIUNA) was launched to promote selected areas of research.
In its strategic plan, it defined five preferred lines of research in the field of health sciences research: Gene Therapy and Hepatology; Vascular Sciences; Oncology; Obesity and Nutrition; and Neuroscience. The first four are the ones that support this programme of postgraduate program.
The University has also promoted the research center Applied Medicine (CIMA), in operation since 2004, which houses the research laboratories that will support, together with the Departments of the School, including the Departments of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, the projects that will be carried out in this programme.
The University of Navarra's postgraduate program DIMA programme meets clearly defined professional and academic needs, expressed on many occasions by professionals from the scientific world. The lack of participation of doctors in the research programme is a worldwide problem. The pressure on healthcare professionals to provide care is leading to a shift away from participation in research activities. Contributions from basic research find it difficult to reach a clinical application and often their design and orientation is far from clinical problems. One of the reasons that also contribute to this distancing is the lack of preparation of doctors and other health professionals in basic research . They become unfamiliar with the language of a rapidly evolving scientific world, making it extremely difficult to multidisciplinarity, which is essential to provide solutions to the complex problems that medicine poses.
This programme aims to provide a solid training in methodology and understanding of the Basic Sciences, applied to clinical problems, developed in an interdisciplinary environment of clinical and basic professionals. This will allow the training of professionals with a greater capacity to make care and research activities compatible in hospitals. It will facilitate the arrival of relevant scientific information to clinical application and at final a greater capacity to solve medical problems.
On the development of DIMA, the Departments of the School of Medicine / Clínica Universidad de Navarra and research center Applied Medicine (CIMA).
Depending on the project of thesis doctoral, professors from other Departments of the Schools of Nursing, Sciences and Pharmacy of the University of Navarra can also participate in the development of the DIMA, mainly in the co-direction of thesis doctoral.
Likewise, lecturers and doctors from other national and foreign institutions can participate, as they have been doing, either in the co-direction of thesis doctoral programmes, in giving seminars, in mobility actions (both of doctoral students and of the lecturers themselves), in participating in the thesis tribunals convened to obtain the European/International accredited specialization in the degree scroll doctoral programme, etc.
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