Medicine and Surgery
Dean: Prof. Antonio Gasbarrini
"Our aim is to train doctors and healthcare professionals of excellence capable of dealing with all types of patients and health-related problems. On this journey, our students will be able to have access to the most modern teaching systems, the best technologies, cultured and motivated teachers, a Campus equipped with one of the best hospitals in the world and a network of solidarity initiatives that will allow them to experience that health is not only hyper-technological but is above all taking charge of the basic needs of man.
Professionals trained at Università Cattolica will be able to treat not only diseased organs but will also have to take on the full burden of the person in front of them, aware that the most modern and innovative therapies can do little if the whole person, physical and spiritual, is not taken care of. A spiritual totality in which, as Pope Francis states, the biological and spiritual, cultural and relational, planning and environmental dimensions of the human being in the path of life are harmonized".
We Catholics are increasingly aware of the need to have doctors who have a Christian inspiration in the exercise of their art. That is, there is a need for doctors who, having a soul educated in the observance of the norms dictated by Catholicism, see in the sick an unhappy brother to be helped
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 for Higher Studies 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 specialization paths. The main teaching centre is Rome, at Università Cattolica, but there are several parallel campuses in other Italian cities and regions.
This Faculty provides modern technical and scientific equipment, but above all it allows students to benefit from the close connection with the "A. Gemelli" Polyclinic, a university hospital with over 1500 places between admissions and day hospitals, capable of performing tens of thousands of services in the Emergency Room 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.
In addition to the more classic frontal teaching - with professors of recognized international scientific level - there are internship activities, in-depth studies (conferences, seminars, ad hoc projects), computer and multimedia sessions, as well as specialized laboratories.
I believe that the contemporary university, while it has the duty to collaborate for the progress 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