Clinical exposure

UCBM's defining feature is that its own university hospital, the Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, sits on the same campus as the teaching buildings and operates under an agreement with Italy's National Health Service (Servizio Sanitario Nazionale), with outpatient, day-hospital, day-surgery and inpatient departments organised by intensity of care and more than thirty operating units. The English-medium Medicine and Surgery (LM-41) curriculum is structured over 12 semesters: the first two years cover pre-clinical sciences (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, genetics) through lab-based and practical teaching, clinical rotations begin from the third year integrating pharmacology, diagnostic imaging and pathology with core clinical subjects, and the sixth year emphasises hands-on involvement in emergency medicine, general surgery, and general/family medicine. Because the hospital is embedded in the campus rather than an external affiliated site, students get comparatively early and continuous contact with real patients and clinical staff as part of the university's own teaching-hospital model.

Clinical exposure

UCBM's defining feature is that its own university hospital, the Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, sits on the same campus as the teaching buildings and operates under an agreement with Italy's National Health Service (Servizio Sanitario Nazionale), with outpatient, day-hospital, day-surgery and inpatient departments organised by intensity of care and more than thirty operating units. The English-medium Medicine and Surgery (LM-41) curriculum is structured over 12 semesters: the first two years cover pre-clinical sciences (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, genetics) through lab-based and practical teaching, clinical rotations begin from the third year integrating pharmacology, diagnostic imaging and pathology with core clinical subjects, and the sixth year emphasises hands-on involvement in emergency medicine, general surgery, and general/family medicine. Because the hospital is embedded in the campus rather than an external affiliated site, students get comparatively early and continuous contact with real patients and clinical staff as part of the university's own teaching-hospital model.