The first graduates of the Scienze Infermieristiche course at the Università Mediterranea

Big celebration in the Aula Magna of Engineering 'Italo Falcomatà' of the Università degli Studi Mediterranea, where the first graduation session of the Course of Studies in 'Scienze Infermieristiche' was held. The Interateneo Course, activated in the Academic Year 2021/2022, saw the synergy between the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, as the administrative seat, and the Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, as the teaching structure.
The Degree Course in Nursing is spread over three academic years for a total of 180 University Training Credits; training is planned through theoretical lectures, seminars, tutorials, guided study and self-study activities, and internships. The students of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing were able to make use of state-of-the-art facilities provided by the Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (DIIES Department) and the Grande Ospedale Metropolitano 'Bianchi-Melacrino Morelli' of Reggio Calabria (internship).

The Rector Giuseppe Zimbalatti said 'The first graduate nurses represent, today, a significant milestone for the expansion of the educational offer of the Mediterranea, which, thanks to the important synergy with the Magna Grecia of Catanzaro, allows to create significant professionalism, highly qualified, for a crucial sector such as the health sector in Calabria'. During the ceremony, the Rector addressed a heartfelt thank you to all the graduating students for having believed in it from the very first moment, to all the professors of Magna Grecia and Mediterranea for their commitment, as well as their expertise, and to Rector Cuda for the support he continues to give to this very important activity.

'Reaching the milestone of graduation is always a great joy for students and for the entire University,' said UMG Rector Prof. Giovanni Cuda, 'and today's happiness is twofold because, in addition to being the first graduation session for the UniCZ-UniRC inter-university nursing degree course, it is also the start of a long series of sessions that will see many students complete the cycle of study. To the first graduates of this course my best wishes with the hope that they will soon be able to find their place in the world of work and continue to specialise more and more in healthcare thanks to the wide range of courses offered by the UMG. I am very pleased,' Cuda concludes, 'with the fruitful collaboration with the Rector of the Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Zimbalatti, and I hope that in the future the network between Calabrian universities can be increasingly efficient and productive, at the service and for the growth of young Calabrian students.

Prof. Edoardo Ferlazzo, President of the CdS in Infermieristica Interateneo, recalled that the three-year course pertaining to degree class L/SNT/1 'Degrees in Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery Health Professions. It is a course with programmed numbering and qualifying for the profession that aims to train an operator, the nurse, who, at the end of the training course, will have acquired knowledge, skills and relational abilities with reference to the European Qualification Descriptors'.

Prof. Giuliana Faggio, Vice-President of the inter-university Infermieristica degree course, specifies: 'The UMG-UniRC inter-university Infermieristica degree course is unique in the university landscape in that it includes courses of an engineering nature in its curriculum. New technologies also bring important innovations to the medical sector, not only with regard to the management of big data, but also with regard to the possibility of benefiting from the advantages of artificial intelligence and augmented reality in this sector as well. By now, technology is also used every day in the medical field, whether in operating theatres or diagnostic centres, whether in therapy or rehabilitation, and it is therefore necessary for all healthcare professionals to have adequate knowledge regarding the use of these tools'