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Health Professions Programmes

Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Discover the three-year degrees qualifying for the health profession offered by Università Cattolica. Prepare for a career in health with high-quality academic programmes and training opportunities with professionalizing hands-on internships.

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Choosing a Health Profession

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Choosing a Healthcare Profession

Embarking on one of the paths proposed by Università Cattolica in the field of Health Professions means choosing for one's future a job that, in addition to specific medical and health skills, requires the development of interpersonal skills and human qualities.

The Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the Università Cattolica provides modern technical and scientific equipment, but above all it allows you to benefit from the close connection with Policlinico A. Gemelli University Hospital.

Those who enrol at Università Cattolica have the unique opportunity not only to study medicine but to live it

Our Health Professions degree programmes

Dietetics · Physiotherapy · Dental hygiene · Nursing · Speech therapy · Orthoptics and ophthalmological care · Obstetrics · Prevention techniques in the environment and in the workplace · Biomedical Laboratory Techniques · Radiology, medical, imaging and radiotherapy techniques · Developmental neuro and psychomotor therapy · Occupational therapy ·

The head office and the affiliated offices

The Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is a fundamental point of reference for healthcare throughout the country, with its headquarters located on the Rome campus at the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli University Hospital.

The Faculty is also present in several important locations, all strategically located in healthcare facilities of excellence.
These places offer an environment where training and specialization are guaranteed in every professional sector of the healthcare field.

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The Headquarters in Rome

Policlinico A. Gemelli University Hospital

The synergy between teaching, research and healthcare constitutes a unique training laboratory where students can experiment with the knowledge acquired in the classroom, engaging in clinical activity and organizational and management complexity. A university hospital with over 1500 inpatient and day hospital beds, thousands of services in the Emergency Department and more than 9 million annual services and outpatient clinics.

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Degree Classes

The degree courses of the Health Professions belong to four degree classes, identified in 2009 by the Ministry of Education, University and Research in agreement with the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies:

Nursing & Midwifery | Rehabilitation | Techniques | Prevention

Admissions & Enrolment

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ADMISSIONS 2024/25

The call is online, registration is open until 26 August 2024

The admission test will take place remotely on 6 and 7 September 2024

Teaching subjects

Innovative teaching

The Faculty of Medicine and Surgery provides modern technical and scientific equipment for teaching. Students have more than 100 classrooms available for a total of about 6,800 seats, in addition to about 300 places in dedicated laboratory classrooms.

Given the wide range of courses offered on the Rome Campus, teaching activities are carried out at the Biological Institutes, the "Giovanni XXIII" University Campus and the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS.

Activity

Professional training

In addition to the more classic frontal teaching - with professors of recognized international scientific level - there are clinical and professional internship activities that begin in the first year and continue throughout the three-year course, as well as in-depth studies (conferences, seminars, ad hoc projects), computer and multimedia sessions, and specialized laboratories.

Ample space is also dedicated to skills related to professional ethics and the development of teamwork skills and interpersonal skills.

The educational offer

Postgraduate

Immediately after graduating , you can carry out your professional activity in public and private health facilities, in hospitals and territorial facilities, as an employee or self-employed person, as well as in companies and companies.

The University also accompanies you on your path of personal and professional growth with a wide range of courses dedicated to postgraduate training. A scientific community at your service with: