Single-cycle 6-year Master in Medicine and Surgery
Turin, Italy
Master degree
DURATION
6 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2027
TUITION FEES
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Key Summary
About: The University of Turin's English-taught MD in Medicine and Surgery is a 6-year single-cycle master at San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital. It links campus, hospitals, ASL districts and general practices for early clinical exposure and interprofessional clerkships. The programme offers mentoring, student services and scholarships. Curriculum integrates biomedicine, psychology, communication, epidemiology, prevention, health promotion, patient-centered care, self-learning and teamwork.
Career Outcomes: Graduates qualify as medical doctors and can work in hospitals. Potential roles include hospital doctor, general practitioner, clinical researcher and public health physician. Training readies you for clinical practice, prevention-focused medicine, research and interprofessional care nationally and internationally.
The MD program in Medicine and Surgery of the University of Turin is entirely taught in English, and takes place in the teaching facilities at San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital, whose campus-type environment allows a seamless integration of students with the clinical areas.
The overall structure of the degree program is intended to stimulate and reward the most deserving students, and support with appropriate mentoring any student who experiences difficulties. Student services are designed to maximise the integration of students and help them with all administrative procedures, with special attention given to the needs of foreign students. To the same purpose, the state, which guarantees the right to study, and the University work together to support students with scholarships and other forms of funding.
University life at Medicine and Surgery takes place in a campus-like environment designed to integrate teaching, research and support services. The campus boasts a wide network of structures including university buildings, hospitals, emergency wards, Local Health Public Utilities districts (ASL), general medical practices and, to a lesser extent, paediatricians. Such a variegated offer makes clerkships a highly instructive part of the curriculum. An inter-professional clerkship (together with nursing students) is also scheduled for first-year students.
The proximity of the University and hospital facilities simplifies communication between students and teaching staff, as does the extensive use of integrated courses and the early development of the patient-physician rapport through interprofessional clerkships during the first year. During these clerkships, third-year nursing students will tutor first-year medical students, in an effort aimed at the development of interprofessional collaboration and teamwork.
Objectives
The specific purpose of the Master’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery of the University of Turin is to train doctors to carry out their activities in national and international contexts.
The internationalisation is done through contacts with professors from foreign universities, who have various professional experiences and teaching approaches, and by the integration of new medical skills, which are required for physicians in our globalised world.
The degree course offers a multidisciplinary and integrated vision of the common problems of health and disease, as well as an education oriented towards illness prevention and health promotion. The curriculum focuses on the human being as a whole, and on communication in different cultural and social contexts.
Over the six years, the course is organised as follows:
- Basic sciences, with an introduction to medicine and early participation in one of the clinical internship programs
- Morpho-functional knowledge of the human body, human-environmental interactions, and clinical and semiotic methodologies
- Theoretical and practical knowledge related to large systems in internal medicine
- Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, psychiatric, neurological, and sense organ-related sciences
- Maternal-child and reproductive medicine, internal medicine and oncology, diagnostic laboratory and radiology
- General and emergency medicine and surgery, public health, forensic medicine and professional ethics
The first years of training are characterised by numerous courses that integrate basic and clinical disciplines, and are supported by situational and tutorial teaching, advanced simulation tools, and an extensive network of certified internship programs, to ensure early contact with different types of case studies, pathologies and patients.
In the subsequent years, in order to offer a wide range of professional internship programs, the course of study leans on several teaching hospitals, health care and research facilities, emergency networks, general practitioners and paediatricians, and medical and humanitarian organisations engaged in education and health care in Italy and abroad.
Agreements with international and Italian NGOs and non-profit organisations provide students with the opportunity to carry out internship programmes in the field of clinical and social care on all continents.
From the second year of the course, in parallel with the study plan, deserving students who are interested in scientific research can access the MD-PhD program, which provides additional research training activities and numerous financial benefits, including a scholarship.
Students who do not enter the MD-PhD program but demonstrate interest in scientific or clinical research will receive dedicated tutoring for subsequent access to the PhD program, even after the second year.
Learning basic science laboratory methods and exposure to community and team operating models precede a period of internship aimed at the preparation of a thesis in an interdisciplinary and international manner.
Everything is geared toward developing and consolidating clinical and research skills, and contributes to the achievement of a skill set expected at training completion.
Proficiency in medical and scientific English, and possibly other languages of the European Community, as well as the opportunity to work abroad, is intended to facilitate placement in international research and cooperation environments, as well as to residency programmes outside Italy.
At the completion of the educational programme, the expected outcomes are those of a graduated physician prepared in every fundamental aspect of medical science, able to start specialized training in any branch of medicine and surgery, to practice medicine in a variety of health systems, to be acquainted with new scenarios brought about by globalization, and to handle the permanent processes of learning and professional development.
- In-depth knowledge of cellular, molecular and genetic bases of pathologies and therapies;
- Understanding and ability to interpret the morphological and functional abnormalities that are found in different diseases;
- The ability to grasp the basic biological mechanisms of defence, the relationship between microorganisms and the host in human infections, and related defence mechanisms;
- Knowledge of the human life cycle and the effects of growth, development and ageing on the individual, family, and community of reference;
- Interpretation of epidemiology, health economics and the bases of health management, especially in light of globalisation;
- In-depth study on the status of international health and global trends in morbidity, and mortality of major chronic diseases from a social point of view, considering the impact of migration, trade. and environmental factors on health, and the role of international health organisations.
Scholarships awarded by EDISU Piemonte
EDISU Piemonte, the Regional Agency for the Right to Education of Piedmont, awards scholarships and other grants to students who are enrolled in a Piedmontese University and meet the economic and merit requirements specified in the competition notices.
Scholarships awarded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI)
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) awards scholarships to foreign citizens not residing in Italy and Italian citizens living abroad (IRE) in order to foster international cultural, scientific and technological cooperation, to promote Italian language and culture and to support Italy’s economic system in the world.
Scholarships are offered to carry out study, training and research projects in Italian Higher Education Institutes.
Please regularly check the page Study in Italy for updates on the call for applications.
National and international scholarship programs
The University of Turin welcomes international undergraduate and postgraduate students, PhD students, researchers, teachers and academics in mobility within the framework of any national or international scholarship programs.
Currently available opportunities:
- China Scholarship Council –CSC (Chinese students/researchers)
Our students will work in a hospital starting from the very first year of their degree program. In this way, they will be able to improve their ability to interact with doctors, nurses and patients. Empathy is key to high-level healthcare and patient satisfaction. This is why students in our medical degree program attend courses such as Introduction to Medicine, which are specifically designed for this purpose.
In our medical degree program, students are encouraged to develop their skills and think of learning as a lifelong experience. The study of medicine is a long-lasting process, and nowadays, the highest-level research is conducted in international environments. Our students will thus be made familiar with worldwide high-quality research in biomedicine to excel in clinical medicine and its cognate sciences, as well as in the ability to collaborate with other medical staff members.
Specifically, the aim of the six-year postgraduate degree in Medicine and Surgery is to train medical doctors at a professional level. We are training medical doctors to have a strong background not only in biomedicine, but also in psychology and general culture. Our prospective MDs will develop a multidisciplinary eye to examine even the most common health issues in terms not only of treatment but, crucially, in terms of disease prevention and health promotion as well. This goal is complemented by meticulous attention to how these three elements – treatment, prevention and health promotion – apply to our community and territory. This manner of conceiving medicine is based on recent approaches in healthcare, which are increasingly patient-centred rather than disease-centred. Our students will therefore become MDs who are inclined to consider their patients as a totality of "soma" and "psyche" acting within a specific social context.
Alongside basic and advanced medical knowledge, our students are also given many opportunities to develop the self-learning skills that are needed for their future careers. We believe that medical training is only the first step in a lifelong learning experience. Therefore, in our degree program, particular relevance is given to self-learning, first-hand experience in hospitals in the territory, and the study of epidemiology, so that students may develop both clinical thinking and a keen awareness of the importance of prevention.
UniTo is a top European University
We are one of Italy’s leading universities and rank in top positions in global university rankings (THE, QS, ARWU). As leaders of the UNITA-Universitas Montium European University Alliance, we have a strong engagement in research, innovation, new societal challenges and the European Green Deal.
A wide range of degree courses
Choose your study path among more than 165 programs, over 25 English-taught degrees and a wide range of joint and double degree programs. Our professors and researchers are strongly committed to challenge-based learning. A strong visiting professors program enhances our range of courses each year.
Employability
Our Postgraduate and PhD programs emphasize synergies with national and international stakeholders and the opportunity of internships.
The UniTo student community is International and diverse
About 3,500 international students, more than 1,000 incoming and 2,000 outgoing students through the Erasmus program for study and traineeship, as well as students from all over Italy, ensure a lively and exciting campus life.
A strong community commitment
UniTo ranks among the top Italian universities for its public engagement: open science and dissemination are our priorities. We are deeply focused on building a green and sustainable campus.
An affordable campus
Tuition fees and life in Turin are more affordable if compared with other Italian cities. Besides, we offer a wide range of student funding through scholarships and grants.
A vibrant campus life, an amazing town, and a unique Italian region
We are an urban campus in the heart of Turin – a city with a lively cultural and youth scene, which is also a most desirable and safe place to study and live. The Piedmont region is home to 5 UNESCO World Heritage sites and is renowned as one of Italy’s premier food and wine destinations.
Since early in the degree, the curriculum combines scientific and clinical knowledge with interactive teaching methods. The educational goals of our degree program are particularly suited for students interested in scientific research and cooperation. The close proximity of teaching, research, and hospital facilities promotes communication between students and teaching staff, and so do the integrated courses and the practice-based learning opportunities.
The postgraduate degree program lasts six years and is divided into twelve semesters. Exams can be taken at the end of each semester.
The degree course in Medicine and Surgery provides an Italian qualification for the medical profession. The procedures for the recognition of Italian titles and qualifications abroad and the required documentation to obtain such recognition depend on the specific rules and legislation of the country where such recognition is being sought.