About Studying Medicine

Medical School in Italy is on average 6 years comprised of a number of preclinical and clinical years. As it is an MD degree students are expected to spend at least 1 of 12 semesters focused on writing a thesis they must present and defend at the end of the 6th year to graduate.

By Marina First of all, I want to clarify that buying books is by no means necessary and that plenty of students are able to succeed in med school by simply downloading books and studying them on their computers. Now, if you are just like me and you need a paper version of a book,

Have you ever wondered what happens to those students that enroll very late due to scrolling, like February or March or even later? I am one of them. I underestimated the IMAT, believing that I would surely get in, merely because my educational career had always proceeded smoothly and I could not see a reason

Medicine. Is. Hard. Especially studying it in Italy. Although not for the reasons you may think. It’s no secret that medicine is a lot of work. One of the hardest subjects to get into world wide, with also one of the highest drop out rates. The work-load is immense. The subjects we study (at least

Medical Schools in Italy give you a great amount of flexibility and power over your exams, but as Uncle Ben once said: “With great power comes great responsibility”. What does the Exam Timetable look like? Italian medical schools are a little bit unique in the world (especially compared to our more Western medical school counterparts),

If you haven’t read my article on Oral Exams, or my article about Exams schedule in an Italian University, I would first recommend you to have a look at them before continuing. As you know, I’m a previously converted oral exam coward. I hope to have changed a lot of your minds by now about

Universities in Italy have chosen a rather interesting and unusual grading system that definitely sets them apart from others. In fact, while most countries opt for a percentage based grading system, a letter based system (A – F), or a system that gives a mark out of 10, in Italy grades are awarded out of

Before enrolling in an Italian Medical School, I had never considered the possibility of doing an oral exam for any subject other than a language. For a language it makes sense, I mean you need to hear pronunciation, annunciation, fluidity, structuring on the fly, but for anything else? How is a student meant to take