II level Master in Colorectal Surgery A.Y. 2025-2026

The II level Master  in Colorectal Surgery aims to provide advanced and comprehensive training in colorectal surgery, from diagnostics to minimally invasive surgical techniques, with a focus on the management of colorectal diseases.
Below are the details of the educational objectives that the Master Program aims to achieve:

• Advanced Clinical Skills: Acquire in-depth knowledge of diseases of the colon and rectum, including diagnosis, treatment and postoperative management
• Surgical Techniques: Learn and refine surgical techniques specific to colorectal surgery, in both open and laparoscopic/robotic settings
• Multidisciplinary Management: Promote a multidisciplinary approach to patient care, working as a team with gastroenterologists, oncologists, radiologists and other specialists.
• Research and Innovation: Develop clinical and translational research capabilities, contributing to innovation in the field of colorectal surgery
• Prevention and Screening: Understand and implement prevention and screening strategies for colorectal cancer
• Complication Management: Learn to recognize, prevent and manage post-surgical complications specific to colorectal surgery
• Continuing Update: Keeping knowledge up-to-date, attending conferences, reading scientific publications and continuing education courses.
• Ethics and Communication: Improve skills in medical ethics, patient communication, and pre- and post-operative counseling.
• Leadership and Management: Develop healthcare leadership and management skills in order to lead colorectal surgery units or departments.

The Master is aimed at doctors, with particular attention to specialists in General Surgery and/or equivalent specialties.