GerontologyMaster's degree

Internships are one of the fundamental training resources of the Master's Degree in Gerontology. Through them, students have the opportunity to get to know the professional reality of intervention with the elderly in a supervised manner.

Internships in the Master’s degree in Gerontology involve a total of 17 ECTS. They can be held in the student’s Autonomous Community of origin

The Faculty of Health Sciences signs new  Educational Cooperation Agreements with internship centres in the field of the elderly. 

Internship centres

• AMSA (Medical Advances, Psychogeriatrics Programme)
• Biscay Association of Alzheimer's patients and their families
• ASPARBI: Biscay Parkinson’s Association
• Oroitu Specialised Care Centre
• Bizia Day Centre
• Biscay Regional Council
• Aspaldiko Foundation
• Dignified Care Foundation

• Miranda Foundation
• Gurena Group
• Torrezuri Group
• Urgatz Group
• IGURCO health and social care services
• Zainduz Programme of the Durango Municipal Association
• Conde Aresti Residential Home
• Olimpia Residential Home
• SARQUAVITAE Residential Homes
• Nostem Residential Homes
• SANITAS Residential Homes
• VITALITAS residential homes and day centres
• Santa y Real Casa de Misericordia de Bilbao
• Aita-Menni Social Services ( Txurdinagabarri Residential Home and Day Centre; Joxe Miel Barandiaran Residential Home and Day Centre)
• Suspergintza Elkartea (Zaintzea Programme for Carers)
• Televida (Home telecare services)
• Zuentzat Psychogerontological Services

The centre has a process called “Career Guidance Management”Career Guidance Management” whose purpose and scope are:

• Promote the employment of final year students or former students of the centre, putting them in contact with companies interested in graduates from the centre,
• Measure and analyse the results on the labour market insertion of future graduates
• Define the necessary improvement actions to enhance the course syllabus.

It also includes measuring satisfaction with the training received.

Career opportunities:

• Social and health care services (residential homes, day centres)
• Health services and health centres (dementia units, palliative care units)
• Public entities
• Social services companies
• Training centres for adults and seniors
• Telecare services
• Leisure companies
• Rehabilitation centres and memory units