Mass casualties management
Description of Postgraduate Degree Course
General Information
Level: First-Level
Field of study: Medicine and Pharmacy
Duration: Duration: 1 year
Mode of Delivery: Convenzionale
Location: Pisa
CFUs: 60
Admission application: Applications open until 19 October 2025
Start date: 30 November 2025
Italian
Italian
The postgraduate degree course in Mass Casualties Management trains professionals to operate in natural disaster scenarios and large-scale emergencies, with the purpose of providing rescue and care to affected people. The training offers comprehensive cultural and operational insights into the following areas:
- the rescue chain: roles and tasks of the various rescue components
- guidelines for managing large scale emergencies and criteria for the design of emergency plans
- rescuer safety, self-protection and scene security rescue methods and strategies according to the size of the event
- interrelation with other rescue actors
- rescue in hostile environments
- behavioural adaptation according to local customs and traditions s
- afety measures for rescuers in hostile environmental conditions
- situational management in conflict settings: scenarios and response protocols
- treatment and assessment of risk and its reduction techniques.
Career opportunities
The postgraduate degree course is designed to train medical, paramedical and technical staff working in highly complex care environments (such as critical care medicine, emergency room, out-of-hospital care, mass emergency management, and military, maritime and civil protection).
Fees
In person
Regular students:
3000 € payable in 3 instalments
- 1200 € no later than 18 November 2025
- 1000 € no later than 15 February 2026
- 800 € no later than 15 April 2026
Registration fee reductions are available for 3 students as specified in the call for applications.
