The study programme INTEGRATED HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE has been developed to address the need for interdisciplinary experts qualified to provide holistic care of an individual, bearing in mind the person's actual mental, physical, social and spiritual needs and abilities. The master's study programme Integrated Health and Social Care follows the trends in developed countries towards integrating health and social care, which are greatly intertwined especially in persons in need of long-term care – and their number is growing rapidly. Today, 4% of the population in Slovenia and the rest of the developed world depends on the assistance of others with their activities of daily living. Projections show that this share will more than double in the future. In the EU between 70 and 90 percent of such individuals are receiving care from informal or family caregivers; in Slovenia this share amounts to 75%, while institutional care makes up the remaining 25%.
The study programme enables students to become qualified for practising integrated health and social care of ill, disabled and frail persons in need of long-term, continuous and holistic care. Modern nursing care centres on the patient as a whole and supports the patient's self-sufficiency and self-responsibility.

The master's study programme Integrated Health and Social Care enables students to deepen their knowledge in wider social areas; trains them to search for new sources of knowledge in the academic and scientific field; to apply scientific research methods to a wide range of problems and under new or altered circumstances in the integrated and continuous medical care of patients, and in the interprofessional collaboration in community care for the health, quality of life and well-being of patients. Basic, applied or research and development projects are a compulsory part of the programme.

ACCESS REQUIREMENTS AND CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF CANDIDATES IN THE EVENT OF ENROLMENT RESTRICTIONS

Access requirements for the first year of the master's study programme:

• a higher education study programme diploma (1st Cycle) in the educational field of Health (Klasius P-16: 091) and Welfare (Klasius P-16: 092);

• diploma of study programme for obtaining a higher professional education in the field of nursing care before 11 June 2004 (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 63/2004);

• higher education study programme diploma (1st Cycle) in the educational field 098 (Klasius P-16) if the student, prior to enrolment, has completed study obligations that are essential for the continuation of studies; the obligations are determined according to the diversity of the professional field and range from 10 to max. 60 ECTS. Individual applications of the candidates shall be handled by the competent committee which will determine additional study obligations on the basis of the received candidates' documentation.

Enrollment from other Klasius-P16 areas of expertise is not possible due to the specifics of the program.

In the event of enrolment restrictions, candidates shall be selected with regard to the grade of the diploma paper (20%) and the average grade of the study programme (80%).

The access requirements are also fulfilled by the candidate who has finished an equivalent education abroad.

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