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Mental Health Research

Edoardo Bassini Hospital , University of Milano Bicocca

University of Milano Bicocca

Main Areas of Interest

Mental Health and Addiction

Workplace: Mental Health and Addiction Department, Edoardo Bassini Hospital (MI), Nord Milano Community Health and Social Care Trust-ASST

The main research areas of our group are:

Psychiatric Epidemiology on individual- and contextual- level correlates of severe mental disorders
Biomarkers for psychiatric disorders

Techniques You Will Learn

Experimental techniques/Technical approaches you will learn during your program here:

Cross sectional and longitudinal analyses of large International and national datasets

Curriculum

6-12 weeks curriculum

The trainee will be provided with the opportunity of shadowing an experienced psychiatrist during his/her daily practice in the psychiatric ward to build knowledge on the presentation and characteristics of the main psychiatric pathologies: schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder and personality disorders. A typical day of clinical activities will include morning briefing, ward rounds, and individual psychiatric interviews with patients
Inside the department the trainee will also be provided with lessons on various mental health topics that may include research methodology in mental health, epidemiology of psychiatric diseases, basic psychopathology of the main psychiatric diagnoses. Lessons will be held by the hospital’s researchers and residents
In addition, it will be possible to attend the courses and the seminars organized in the context of different international programs, such as the Neuroscience PhD program http://www.neuroscienze.medicina.unimib.it/ and the Virgilio Program, a pre-graduate training track in biomedical research https://virgilioprogram.unimib.it/
The trainee will collaborate on research projects defined together with our department.

Accommodation

Residence Luna: website (Italian/English; possible online reservation): https://www.residencelunadimonza.it/
Helios Hotel: website (Italian; possible online reservation): https://heliosmonza.com/it/
website (English; possible online reservation): https://heliosmonza.com/en/
Residenze Universitarie Bicocca: website (Italian; possible online reservation): https://bicocca.residenzesodexo.it/
website (English; possible online reservation): https://en.unimib.it/services/bicocca-campus/accommodation
Campus in-domus: website (Italian/English; possible online reservation): https://www.in-domus.it/

Fees and Program Logistics

This program has the following durations available:

Duration	Fee
2 weeks	$875.00
6 weeks	$1,500.00
12 weeks	$2,750.00

This program allows Merit Applications. If you successfully are awarded a merit application - Trialect will take care of all bench and service fees, but you will have to take care of travel and accommodation. All applications will be scrutinized under the merit category. Considering 50 million health professionals around the world, the chances of getting selected under the merit category would be very low.

Who Can Apply

All are eligible

Host Details

Host Name: Prof. Giuseppe Carrà

Affiliation: Edoardo Bassini Hospital , University of Milano Bicocca

Address: Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo; 1, 20126 Milano MI; Italy

Website URL: https://en.unimib.it/

Disclaimer:It is mandatory that all applicants carry workplace liability insurance, e.g., https://www.protrip-world-liability.com (Erasmus students use this package and typically costs around 5 € per month - please check) in addition to health insurance when you join any of the onsite Trialect partnered fellowships.