DIU Pédagogie en sciences de la santé at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

The DIU Pédagogie en sciences de la santé is a continuing-education inter-university diploma run with Université de Picardie Jules Verne (SimUSanté, CHU Amiens) and taught at Bobigny and Amiens. It trains health professionals in teaching, learning and evaluation methods for initial and continuing health education.

Faculty: UFR de santé, médecine et biologie humaine (SMBH)  |  Duration: About 1 year  |  Intake: January (UE 1 compulsory) to October (optional UE 7)  |  Study mode: Continuing education; taught in French  |  Location: Villetaneuse, Île-de-France, France

What you will study

144 hours of in-person and e-learning teaching. Compulsory units: general pedagogy; learning and clinical reasoning; procedural learning; systemic organisation of initial and continuing training; assessment methodology. Optional units: exceptional health situations and group dynamics, health simulation, docimology, patients as trainers, and a dissertation in article form.

Career pathways

Head of emergency-care teaching centres (CESU), teacher in university and non-university health study programmes and health training institutes, trainer in continuing health training organisations. Graduates can continue to Master-level public health programmes at USPN (Ingénierie des Formations en Santé, Éducation Thérapeutique et Éducations en santé) via validation of professional experience.

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