INCOMING STUDENTS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

1. CLINICAL TRAINING (TIROCINIO NEI REPARTI)

Students must complete all health checks as specified in the email from the International Relations Office and on the Unipa website below (BEFORE ARRIVING CHECKLIST).

https://www.unipa.it/mobilita/en/incoming-students/incoming-erasmus-and-exchange-students/

Students can apply for as little as 6 CFU (Crediti Formativi Universitari- University credits) of clinical practise in one semester and 12 CFU for one year of mobility.

The student cannot decide when to participate in clinical training. All clinical placements are held in the morning and all courses in the afternoon.
The Erasmus coordinator cannot guarantee the places on the wards as soon as he receives the students' requests, as he has to check the availability of each ward with the persons responsible for organising the clinical training.

In the meantime, the student can IMMEDIATELY express his/her preference regarding the wards he/she would like to attend and communicate them to his/her coordinator.

The coordinator signs the learning agreement with RESERVE regarding the availability of the wards for clinical practise until he/she receives confirmation of availability in the departments/wards from the head of the organization of clinical training-Tirocinio (prof. TERESA FASCIANA).

The coordinator sends the list with names, wards and CFU to Prof. Chiara Corrado and Teresa Fasciana who collects all the information.
Prof. Teresa Fasciana will confirm availability in September.

If the person in charge of the clinical training’s organisation confirms the availability, the students can follow the proposed timetable and they must collect the signatures of the MDs confirming their presence in the wards for the total number of hours corresponding to the CFU through the libretto rosso that each coordinator must send to the incoming students.

At the end of the clinical training, each incoming student must send the libretto rosso with the signatures by email to the Erasmus coordinator and attend a final exam to verbalize credits.

2. LESSONS

The student may choose a subject that is an integrated course with all blocks, or he/she may choose a single block of the integrated course.

Classes are entirely in Italian as there are no separate classes for Erasmus students.
Exams are in Italian unless the teacher is available to take the final exam in English, but he/she is not obliged to do so.

The student can theoretically choose subjects from all years of study, but it is important to know that we cannot guarantee the frequency of subjects from different years of study.
If the student wants to take two subjects that are in the fourth and sixth year of study, for example, it is possible that the lessons will overlap! If the student does not attend one subject, he/she will not take the final exam, as the frequency is MANDATORY.

For these subjects, the coordinator cannot guarantee (NOW) that the student will be able to take them and he/she must decide which one to prefer and cancel the other... this only applies if he/she chooses subjects that correspond to another academic year in our curriculum and could overlap.

The Erasmus student can take one subject in the Chirone class and another in the Ippocrate class according to the timetable to avoid overlap.
Below the link to the timetable of the last academic year.

https://offweb.unipa.it/offweb/public/aula/weekCalendar.seam?cc=2041

The coordinator signs the learning agreement with RESERVE regarding the availability of lessons until he/she receives the final timetable for the new academic year.

Useful contacts

Staff for incoming students, UNIPA International Relations Office: incoming.students@unipa.it Contact person for the School of Medicine: antonella.occhipinti@unipa.it
Head of the Master’s degree course in Medicine and Surgery: giuseppe.gallina@unipa.it Erasmus coordinator for Austria: riccardo.alessandro@unipa.it

Erasmus coordinator for Germany: adamaria.florena@unipa.it
Erasmus coordinator for Spain: teresa.fasciana@unipa.it
Erasmus coordinator for France: giulia.accardi@unipa.it
Erasmus coordinator for Portugal: luisa.agnello@unipa.it
Erasmus coordinator for Romania: m.antonietta.dibella@unipa.it
Erasmus coordinator for Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovenia: erika.lacascia@unipa.it
Erasmus coordinator for Poland: Erika.lacascia@unipa.it; valentina.difelice@unipa.it; giulia.accardi@unipa.it