From the academic year 2025/26 in Venice, the "Medicine and Surgery" course of the University of Padua
10.01.2025
The Medicine and Surgery degree course of the School of Medicine at the University of Padua will be relocated to Venice starting from the 2025-2026 academic year. The number of students in the first year is set at 100, with a gradual increase up to 600 by 2030.
The course will be conducted exclusively in English, as it already is in Padua, from where it will be progressively transferred to Venice, at the site of the historic SS Giovanni e Paolo Hospital, with classrooms and teaching laboratories, where internships will be possible.
This historic development in the dissemination of advanced healthcare education was formalized on January 7th by the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the rector Daniela Mapelli, the president of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, and the general director of Ulss 3 Serenissima, Edgardo Contato. Also present at the meeting were the president of the School of Medicine of Padua, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos, and the regional health councilor, Manuela Lanzarin.
Rector Mapelli specified: "We will have 4 health professions courses in addition to the Medicine and Surgery course. Let’s not forget that we also have Nursing both in Chioggia and Mestre."
"We are starting 2025 with a historic novelty," commented Zaia, "because with the course in Venice, we are closing a great triangle of knowledge in healthcare, composed of Padua, Treviso, and Venice, and enhancing our historical propensity for internationalization, combined with the global prestige of the healthcare school in Veneto, which is based on the excellence of the universities of Padua and Verona. Not surprisingly, 75% of the students who will be trained in Venice will be from the European Union, including Italians, and the remaining 25% from non-EU countries. Moreover, the English language is an essential added value because English is the language of science worldwide. With this new educational offering in Venice, we also aim to expand the pool from which we can draw new young doctors."
