Master presentation
Catholic University – Rome – on behalf of Faculty of Medicine & Surgery – organizes for 2024/25 the first (I) edition of a Second Level Postgraduate Master in INTERVENTIONAL ONCOLOGY (IO). The Master in Interventional Oncology will be organize together with the Medical Faculty of the LM University of Munich.
The Master in Interventional Oncology (IO) is a Second Level Postgraduate Master Programme that aimed at creating Multidisciplinary professionals working with Minimal invasive Technologies, providing them with a thorough understanding of the clinical scenarios in which they are applied, a deep technical knowledge, and a practical approach to the procedures.
DURATION: 1 year - professionalizing diploma of 60 ECTS – 1500hs.
Modern oncology needs to offer personalized treatments. The process of choosing the best possible treatment should be based on efficacy, feasibility, and cost benefit, as well as considering the patient’s age, clinical condition, presentation of disease, and the patient’s individual needs.
Interdisciplinarity is playing a major role in the diagnostic workout and in the treatment decision, as well as in the performance and effectiveness of the procedures. Minimal invasive procedures are preferred, but their application needs highly specialized teams. It is also well known that multidisciplinary tumor boards (MDT) lack experts of all kind of interventional procedures.
Therefore, the main purpose of the Master is to “create” an IO expert, aware of different locoregional interventional fields, including interventional radiology as well as interventional radiotherapy. The master could also improve/stimulate a closer interdisciplinary cooperation between radiologists and radiotherapists, creating an interdisciplinary service for diagnosis and treatment of cancer and cancer-related problems using targeted (focal) minimally invasive procedures.
Enrollment to this Master Course is restricted to a limited number of physicians specialized in Radiology, Radiation Oncology, or Oncology.
The candidate should have a good knowledge of spoken and written English (Level ≧ B2).
Candidates admitted to attend the Master Program are identified by a ranking list determined on the basis of the curriculum and letter of recommendation.
Places available: minimum 4 – maximum 8
The graduates in the Master Program in Interventional Oncology will have access to dedicated structures in Interventional Oncology