Open semester
Starting from the 2025/2026 academic year, to access the courses of Medicine and Surgery, Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics and Veterinary Medicine, it is necessary to enrol in an open semester, an initial training period lasting about three months to which you can be admitted without any entrance test.
Durante the open semester, all enrolled persons attend three common courses:
chemistry and biochemical propaedeutics
Physics
Biology
At the end of the Open Semester, tests are carried out, uniform at national level, which determine the formation of a national ranking, including all the people who have passed at least one test. Based on the ranking, Cineca will make the assignments based on the preferences expressed.
Those who obtain the sufficiency in all three tests can proceed to enrol in the course of study of assignment.
Those who do not obtain the sufficiency in one or two tests, must instead register for the remedial exams at the university of assignment and will be able to enrol only after passing them.
Those who are present in the ranking, but are not assigned to a university for one of the three courses of study mentioned above, can access one of the related courses, always subject to assignment by Cineca.
In order to protect yourself in the event of non-admission to the main courses, it is always preferable to participate in the ordinary selections for the courses of your interest.
- Enrolling in the Open Semester
Here you will find information on procedures and deadlines for enrolment in the Open Semester, compatibility with other study courses and tuition fees.
- Attending the Open Semester
Information on the division into channels, lessons, study materials, attendance and exemptions.
- Final exams of the Open Semester, rankings, remedial exams
- Information on the final exams of the semester, on how to enrol and on the publication of the results.
- Information on courses (materials, lectures...) and remedial exams, for people assigned to the University of Padova for a main or related course and who have to make up one or two exams.
- Enrolment in the Main Courses: Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine
to related courses, extraordinary window
- Information for enrolment in the main courses, for people assigned to the University of Padova on the basis of the national ranking and who have already passed the three exams, possibly through recoveries.
- Information for enrolment in related courses, for people assigned to the University of Padova on the basis of the national ranking and who have already passed the three exams, possibly through recoveries.
- Information on the extraordinary enrolment window for people who, having attended the filter semester, have not enrolled in any of the main or similar courses.
The information published is based on the decrees of 2025/2026, and is confirmed and updated following the publication of the new ministerial decrees.
