Medicina e chirurgia

Tuition fees for Medicina e chirurgia are 150 EUR per year.

Medicine and surgery is the discipline concerned with diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease and injury in the human body. Training in this field is long and structured, typically beginning with foundational sciences such as anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, before progressing into clinical subjects including internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, and public health. Clinical rotations and supervised practice in hospital settings form a central part of the training, giving students direct exposure to patient care under the guidance of practising physicians. Graduates of medicine and surgery programmes typically go on to postgraduate specialisation, training in a particular clinical area such as surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, or a wide range of other specialities, before practising as licensed physicians. Others pursue careers in medical research, public health, or academic medicine. Because medical qualifications are strictly regulated, graduates must complete additional licensing and, in most cases, specialty training requirements specific to the country in which they intend to practice. This is a six-year Medicine and Surgery programme offered by Università degli Studi di Catania, based in Catania, Italy, and taught in English. The six-year, single-cycle structure reflects the standard format for medical degrees in the Italian system, combining what would elsewhere be separate undergraduate and graduate stages into one continuous course of study. Delivering the programme in English is intended to make Italian medical education accessible to international students, though admission to programmes of this kind is typically limited to a set number of places each year.