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The Bachelor's Degree in Ostheopaty provides the scientific basis and theoretical-practical training necessary to be qualified to practise the profession of osteopathy. Upon completion of the learning pathway, the candidate will attain the qualification required to carry out prevention and health maintenance interventions through the osteopathic treatment of somatic dysfunctions that cannot be traced back to pathologies within the musculoskeletal system.

The learning pathway provides basic, characterising and related curricular educational activities; furthermore, it provides specific professionalising educational activities such as seminars, internships, partly compulsory, partly freely chosen by the student; finally,the learning pathway provides for training activities such as workshops, preparatory to the internship activities.

The course in Ostheopaty lasts 3 years and is divided into 6 semesters; the first year is propaedeutic, the second is dedicated to the study of pathologies subject to rehabilitation treatment and Rehabilitation Science, the third is vocational and specialized.

The graduates are provided with adequate background in the basic disciplines, enabling them to understand thoroughly most relevant elements underlying both pathological processes and recovery processes, on which their preventive intervention in childhood, adulthood and geriatric age will focus. Upon completion of the learning pathway, the student will be able to recognize the indication or contraindication to osteopathic treatment and perform osteopathic assessment through observation, perceptual palpation and osteopathic testing to detect the presence of clinical signs of somatic dysfunction of the musculoskeletal system.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Upon completion of the learning pathway in Ostheopaty,the students can find employment in public or private health and social care facilities, either as employees or freelancers. In particular, occupational outlets can be identified in any field where prevention, treatment and rehabilitation interventions are required in the areas of motor, upper cortical and visceral functions resulting from pathological events of various aetiologies, whether congenital or acquired.

Graduates in Osteopathy work in prevention and rehabilitation services within the National and Regional Health Service, private facilities accredited and affiliated within the National Health Service, research institutes, nursing homes, clinics, foundations, rehabilitation facilities and centres, nursing homes, at the patient's home, spas and wellness centres, medical surgeries and/or multi-specialist surgeries. The current regulations allow for freelance activities in individual or associated professional firms, sports associations and clubs of various types, service cooperatives, non-governmental organisations (NGO), and public or private prevention services.