To overcome the difficulties of access to training in health and the absence of biomedical research, the territorial community of Corsica recommended the implementation of a Department of Medical Sciences and Human Biology within the University of Corsica. It is within the framework of this department that different training courses targeting the full range of actors in the health system were organised, the large majority in agreement with medical faculty from the continent. It is also within this framework that a set of research themes was developed, permitting at full term, a better health management of the population. After four years in existence, we propose an assessment of training actions, and the results of the research work that associated hospital practitioners and university research professors and which allows one to imagine, notably, the development of a research axis in geography and health on the theme, "Genetics-Public Health-Environment in the Islands of the Mediterranean".