San Marino. Inauguration of the 11th edition of the “Giancarlo Ghironzi” Master in Geriatric Medicine
The San Marino Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (ASGG), is pleased to inform that the inauguration of the XI Edition of the Master in Geriatric Medicine “Giancarlo Ghironzi” will take place on 27 January.
There are 20 new candidate medical and psychologist colleagues who will participate in the new course of the 2022/23 academic year, which will take place in presence and distance learning (streaming), which will add to the over 170 graduates of the previous editions.
It is with enormous satisfaction that the President of the ASGG, Dr. Carlo Renzini, announces this result achieved, since the birth of the Maestro, conceived by the same association and carried forward in collaboration with the University of San Marino and Ferrara .
A II level training course, so complete and compelling on health and social problems of the elderly, for general practitioners, specialists, graduates in psychology and nursing sciences, has found over the years increasing interest and recognition also from of prestigious scientific societies such as the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG) and the International Association of Gerontology Geriatrics (IAGG).
As underlined by the President of the SIGG, Prof. Andrea Ungar: “San Marino is becoming an important Geriatric training center, setting up an approach and method in the care and management of elderly patients, to have a global vision of the health of the elderly, which they are among the most fragile peopleā.
The Association deems it important to elaborate operational indications for the future and review a more efficient health and welfare organization, also starting with specific training courses for medical and health personnel.
We have already begun, in 2009 with the foundation of the ASGG and the planning of a Master’s in Geriatric Medicine presided over by Dr. Giancarlo Ghironzi, to whom the Master is now named after.
All this, thanks to the direction of Professor Giovanni Zuliani of the University of Ferrara and the involvement of eminent professors of the most prestigious Italian universities, the Master has led to these internationally recognized results.
We hope that it will be a concrete example to act as a stimulus to the institutions responsible for promoting and defining paths for health care for the most fragile people: the elderly. A small reality like our Republic of San Marino, rich in its experience in social and health policies, can go back to being a model of hospital/territory organization.
The ASGG thanks all those who have shown a real contribution to its initiatives, in particular, the public institutions of San Marino, the Unione Mutuo Soccorso Society and also private supporters.