The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) is a new scientific discipline, emerging from the integration of systems biology, bioinformatics, and biomedical engineering. The ultimate goal of the VPH is to create a methodological and technological framework to facilitate collaborative investigation of the human body as a single complex system. Realisation of the VPH will lead to better and safer health-care, including reduced costs of drug discovery, and more cost-effective design of biomedical devices. Currently there is no formal VPH-specific training in Europe. Some MSc programmes in related areas partially address this challenge, but none focuses on the essential characteristics of the discipline, such as heterogeneous data fusion, multi-scale and multi-physics modelling of physiopathology, and simulation of complex clinical work-flows. VPH-MIP will address this deficiency by developing a framework for VPH graduate programmes. In a multi-disciplinary field such as the VPH, it is essential that students have a solid scientific grounding. The curriculum envisaged, will be tailored to VPH needs, but will be founded in relevant, and successful, pre-existing programmes at partner institutions. Novel VPH-specific modules covering core topics will be developed for use in all participating institutions and delivered through intensive use of ICT technologies, facilitating cultural and language adaptations. In addition, mobility between institutions, facilitated by ERASMUS exchange, will be encouraged enabling students to complement training provided by their primary institution by undertaking selected specialist modules at a second institution. In the longer term, joint or double awards are envisaged.VPH-MIP will enable students will be trained in a new and far-reaching discipline, one that is currently receiving significant attention from the EC, and which has high experiencing high demand from academic , industrial and clinical sectors.