Program factsheet

• Academic cooperation: Unique academic collaboration including clinicians and researchers from Liryc (Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute) and Bordeaux University Hospital as well as international world-renowned experts and speakers from the industry.
• Admission requirements: 
  • French medical students must have a validated DFASM3 or DFASP2 (advanced medical or pharmaceutical science training degrees)
  • EU/FR students and non-EU students must have completed a 4 year degree in the field of medical/biomedical/biological science, veterinary science or pharmaceutical science or engineering (including CPGE (Preparatory classes for Grandes Ecoles for French students)
• Program duration: 1 year, including an internship (60 ECTS).
• Language requirements: This program is taught entirely in English. Excellent proficiency in English is therefore required. Students whose native language is not English must provide a TOEFL, TOEIC or IELTS certification: TOEFL score of 550/213/80, TOEIC score of 900-990 or IELTS score of 6.0.
• Level: International Master (year 2) of Science in Cardiac EP - Electromechanical Heart Diseases.
• Tuition fees: Annual registration fees for all selected applicants are calculated according to the rules and regulations of the University of Bordeaux (approximately 400€).

Program outline

The Master in Cardiac EP - Electromechanical Heart Diseases provides research and innovation-based training for versatile, high-level specialists in the field of electrophysiology and cardiac bioengineering. The Master brings a global and transversal approach to all pathologies, including a cardiac electrophysiological component.

Program structure

Semester 1 - Didactic session (30 ECTS)

Core program

• Cardiac physiology and pathophysiology, signal acquisition & treatment, modelisation, cardiac imaging
• Electromechanical heart diseases: heart failure, supraventricular arrhythmia, ventricular arrhythmia & sudden death
• Treatments of electromechanical heart diseases (treatments of heart failure, heart stimulation, ablation and pharmacological treatment of arrhythmias)
• Regulation and innovation economics
• Technological and therapeutic innovations
• Scientific communication skills

Hands-on group projects

• Heart failure, bioenergetics and stimulation
• Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
• Cardiac devices

Semester 2 - Internship (30 ECTS)

• Internship within a research laboratory, hospital department or within the industrial sector.