Medicine and surgery

Course Description

Level: Degree Programme

Degree Class: LM-41 R - Content in Italian
Medicina e chirurgia

Department: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND OF NEW SURGICAL AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES

Admission: Programmed

CFUs: 360

Duration: 6 years

Website: https://www.med.unipi.it/index.php/corsi-di-laurea/cdl-medicina-e-chirurgia/

The degree course in Medicine and Surgery trains medical doctors with a solid scientific, theoretical, and practical basis, enabling them to develop appropriate lifelong learning skills. The degree course enables students to acquire the professional, decision-making and operational autonomy required to deal with the health problems of both healthy and sick individuals. The aim is to acquire skills and experience that will enable them to address and solve health problems from the preventive, diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative perspectives.The course of study involves the acquisition of an integrated approach to patients, considering clinical aspects as well as relational, cultural, social and ethical issues.Academic disciplines include:
  • Physics, chemistry, biology
  • Genetics, anatomy, pathology, microbiology
  • Laboratory medicine
  • Dermatology, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, haematology
  • Hygiene and public health
  • Nephrology, endocrinology, cardiology, plastic surgery, gynaecology, psychiatry, neurology, oncology, paediatrics and emergency medicine
  • Biomedical research methods
  • Health law, bioethics
  • Diagnostic imaging
 The degree qualifies graduates to work as medical doctors.The Master’s degree is a prerequisite for admission in Specialty Schools in the medical area.

Content in Italian
I Requisiti e le modalità di accesso al corso di Laurea Magistrale a ciclo unico in Medicina e Chirurgia sono disciplinati da Leggi e Normative Ministeriali in ambito nazionale.
Per essere ammessi al corso di Laurea Magistrale in Medicina e Chirurgia occorre essere in possesso di un Diploma di Scuola Secondaria Superiore o di altro titolo di studio conseguito all'estero, riconosciuto idoneo.
Le conoscenze richieste per l'accesso sono di carattere scientifico relative alle discipline di Biologia, Chimica, Fisica e Matematica oltre al possesso di una adeguata cultura generale che si traduca in capacità di logica deduttiva, induttiva e comprensione del testo.

Agli studenti che sono stati ammessi al corso con una votazione inferiore a una prefissata soglia minima saranno assegnati degli obblighi formativi aggiuntivi (OFA) secondo le modalità individuate dal CDS.
Content in Italian

Il test di ammissione, di contenuto identico in tutte le sedi di prova, è predisposto dal Ministero dell'università e della ricerca (MUR) avvalendosi di soggetti con comprovata competenza in materia, individuati nel rispetto dei principi di imparzialità, trasparenza e riservatezza, tenuti al rigoroso rispetto del segreto professionale e d'ufficio e di una Commissione di esperti, per la validazione delle domande. Le modalità e i contenuti della prova stessa sono definiti dal MUR anno per anno con apposito decreto dal quale deriva il bando di Ateneo.

A seguito dell'esito della prova verranno attribuiti obblighi formativi aggiuntivi (OFA) nelle discipline di Biologia, Chimica, Fisica ai candidati vincitori che hanno ottenuto nelle prove di ammissione un punteggio equalizzato inferiore a 5 nella sezione Biologia, per l'OFA in BIOLOGIA, e/o nella sezione Chimica e Fisica, per l'OFA in CHIMICA e in FISICA.

L'Obbligo Formativo Aggiuntivo deve essere recuperato durante il primo anno, attraverso le modalità concordate con il docente titolare dell'insegnamento di Biologia, Chimica e/o Fisica in cui è stato individuato l'obbligo formativo.
Il superamento dell'esame finale del corso integrato sullo stesso argomento in cui è stato attribuito l'OFA vale come prova di assolvimento dell'OFA stesso.
L'assolvimento degli OFA è indispensabile per l'iscrizione al secondo anno di corso.

Course Evaluations

Contacts

Presidente del Corso di Laurea
Riccardo Ruffoli
Email: riccardo.ruffoli@unipi.it

Referente didattico
Fabiano Martinelli
Tel. (+39) 050 2211842
Email: fabiano.martinelli@unipi.it
Orario di ricevimento: Su appuntamento da concordare telefonicamente (+39) 050 2211842 o via e-mail: fabiano.martinelli@unipi.it

Study Plan

For students enrolled in the academic year 2025/2026

Corsi integrativi di potenziamento a libera scelta dello studente (9 CFU)
Medicine enhanced by engineering technology (48 CFU)
The course offerings from previous years can be viewed at Course Catalogue.

Career opportunities

Graduates in Medicine and Surgery have multiple career opportunities, as they can work as medical doctors in various clinical, health and biomedical roles and professional fields. The career of a medical doctor can be pursued in three different ways:
  • private practice, either individually or in association, depending on their specialisation
  • public or private employment contract
  • coordinated and continuous working relationship.
Graduates can find employment:

  • in medical practices, clinics and polyclinics, private analysis laboratories
  • in the National Health Service
  • at public service facilities not belonging to the ASL (local health agencies)

Enrolment

The Degree Program in Medicine and surgery has a limited access. In order to enrol, students must pass a selection.

The admission test is for Medicine and surgery and Dentistry and dental prosthodontics.

The call for the academic year 2024/2025 has been published.

PLEASE NOTE: to participate to one or both admission selections you have to register on the Universitaly portal (www.universitaly.it) from the 3rd of April 2024 until the 17th of April 2024, H. 15.00.

After the application on the Universitaly portal, it is necessary to register on the Alice portal and apply for the admission selection from the same portal. At the end of the procedure it is necessary to pay the admission fee available in the Fee section on the Alice portal.

Having acknowledged that at the date of issue of this notice, the relative ministerial decree for the planning of places for access to the single-cycle master’s degree courses in Medicine and Surgery and in Dentistry and Dental Prosthesis has not been adopted, the Provisional places determined by the University of Pisa with the express reservation of confirmation or modification of the same following the publication of the aforementioned Ministerial Decree.

The definitive determination of places will be communicated with a subsequent decree

Medicine and surgery (provisional places for the 1st year)

329* places for EU and equated non EU citizens

The number of places indicated includes the reserves of the Naval Academy and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna which are awaiting definition

4 places for non EU citizens residing abroad and applying for VISA (1 reserved to Marco Polo Project candidates)

Dentistry and dental prosthodontics

20 places for EU and equated non EU citizens (provisional places) 

2 places for non EU citizens residing abroad and applying for VISA (1 reserved to Marco Polo Project candidates)

There will be two section admission selections – tests will be in presence at the university:

  • tuesday 28th of may 2024
  • tuesday 30th of july 2024

Candidates can participate to one or both admission section selections.

Candidates can sign up to admission selection following this procedure:

1) register on the admission selection from the Universitaly portal (www.universitaly.it).  Candidates can register for one or both tests from the 3rd of april 2024 until the 17th of april 2024.

Preferences can be modified until the 17th of april 2024 H. 15.00.

Each candidate must take the admission test in the University nearest to the domicile/residence address. Here the details.

Non-Eu candidates applying for a visa must take the admission test in the University where they wish to enroll.

 

2) register in the University portal Alice and apply for the admission selection.

It is possible to apply for the first session selection from the 3rd of april 2024 until the 22nd of april 2024, H. 12.00 a.m.

It is possible to apply to the admission selection on the Alice portal only after the registration on the University portal.

On the Alice portal, application for the second session selection will start from the 29th of april 2024 until the 23rd july 2024 h. 12.00. Admission fee must be paid within the 23rd of July 2024.

 

3) pay the 60 euros admission fee within the 22nd of april 2024 h. 12.00 a.m. for the first session selection. The admission fee can be found in the “Fee section” on the Alice portal. 

Admission fee is 60 euros for each admission session.


At the end of the application, you can find the admission fee in the Fee section on the Alice portal.


For the first session selection, deadline to pay the admission fee is the 22nd of April 2024, h. 12.00 a.m.


Candidates that do not pay the admission fee, will not be allow to participate to the admission test.
The fee is not refoundable in any case.

Admission selection calendar:

  • tuesday 28th of may 2024 H. 13.00
  • tuesday 30th of july 2024  H. 13.00

Place:  to define

The test is written and it is the same for each candidate.

The admission test is divided into n. 60 questions, which present 5 answer options, among which the candidate must identify only one, discarding the wrong, arbitrary or less probable conclusions.

The questions are divided as follows:

– four (4) questions on text Comprehension and knowledge acquired in studies;
– five (5) questions on logical reasoning and problems;
– twentythree (23) questions on Biology;
– fifteen (15) questions on Chemistry;
– thirteen (13) questions on Physics and Mathematics .

The questions of the admission test will be extracted from a specific database also containing the correct answer.

Th database with 7.000 questions will be available on this page: https://accessoprogrammato.mur.gov.it/2024/,
– 3500 questions will be available 20 days before the 28th of may 2024;
– 3500 questions will be available 20 days before the 30th of july 2024.

Questions will be evaluated as follows:

• 1,5 points for each correct answer;
• minus 0,4 (- 0,4) points for each wrong answer;
• 0 point for each non given answer.

The test lasts 100 minutes.

Previous years tests

From the 29th of July to the 2nd of  Septemebr 2024 h. 15.00, EU and equated non EU citizens can apply for inclusion in the national ranking on the Cineca website. When applying for inclusion in the national ranking, candidates may indicate their preferences relating to the universities of enrolment.

Only students who have obtained a high school diploma or who will achieve it by 31/12/2024 can apply for inclusion in the national ranking.

The ranking will be published on the 10th of September 2024 on the Cineca website for EU and equated non EU citizens.

The ranking will be published on the Matricolandosi portal for non EU citizens applying for a Visa.

Enrollment guide

After admission test, additional learning requirements (OFA) will be assigned to those successful candidates having obtained less than one-third of the test maximum grade score, and a 25% lower than the maximum grade score for the first year subjects of the degree program. The OFA shall be fulfilled within the first year and will be indicated by a relevant Degree program committee. The OFA shall be considered fulfilled if the students attend all tutoring classes planned with the relevant subject teachers and pass the intermediate tests and the final test of the subjects requiring OFA fulfillment. This is mandatory in order to attend the exams of the second year.