Medicine and Surgery
The words of the future: Science, Health, Charity
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The Faculty was established on the initiative of the founder of the University, Father Agostino Gemelli, and was founded in Rome at the behest of Pope Pius XI, who donated to the Giuseppe Toniolo Institute of Higher Education the ownership of the land on which the first university buildings were erected, opened to students in 1961, and the connected Polyclinic, operational since 1964.
Within the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery there are different types of degree programmes, with a diversified educational offer in the medical and health field, able to offer different specialisation paths. The main teaching location is Rome, at the Università Cattolica, but there are several parallel locations in other Italian cities and regions.
This Faculty provides modern technical and scientific equipment, but above all it allows you to benefit from the close connection with "Policlinico A. Gemelli", a university hospital with over 1500 beds between admissions and day hospitals, capable of performing tens of thousands of services in the Emergency Department every year and more than 9 million total services and outpatient clinics: those who enrol at Università Cattolica thus have the unique opportunity not only to study medicine, but to 'live' it.
I believe that the contemporary university, while it has the duty to collaborate for the advancement of the sciences and to follow the methodology required by each of them, must never put in second place what requires the recognition of its primacy, that is, man, the human person, the world of spirituality