SURVIVAL GUIDE TO MEDICINE 8 1 0 2 2017- N O I T I ED
SAN LUIGI: WHO WE ARE San Luigi’s Hospital has a Learning Centre, which includes a Department of Research (Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences) and some other degree courses such as Medicine and Surgery, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Techniques and Nursing (located in Beinasco). Most of our professors are researchers at the Department or medical doctors. San Luigi’s Learning Centre is part of the School of Medicine of Turin, which is also composed by Molinette’s Learning Centre. Molinette is another important Hospital of Turin and it has other degree courses and departments such as Medicine and Surgery, but there are a lot of differences between this course and San Luigi’s one.
HOW TO REACH US You can get the bus line 43 from the bus terminal Piazzale Caio Mario in Turin, or you can arrive by car, in fact there are interior parking lots for students and hospital staff .
INTEGRATED COURSES AND EXAMS STRUCTURE Our IC are multi-module courses. Their purpose is to provide an overall view, so that students will be able to make connections between different subjects. Each exam is composed by a written test and an oral test, but in order to reach the second one, you have to get a minimum score. Each IC has different modules, which has a different weight, depending on the number of CFU (which is related to the number of hours of the module).
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In some IC, if you decide not to give the oral part, you can keep the written test “safe� , at least until the next exam date. Otherwise, if you try the oral test in the same date and you fail or you refuse your mark, you will have to take the written test again in the next exam date. Anyway you have to check the rules of every IC before doing it, because some professors can change them.
Semester
Exam
CFU
I
Preparatory Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
7
I
Cellular and Genetic Basis of Medicine
11
I
English language or Italian Language
4
I
Introduction to Medicine
4
I
Physical Basis of Human Body
3
II
Basis of Human Morphology
8
II
Biochemical and Molecular Basis of Metabolism
11
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Anatomy clerkship
1
I-II
Histology clerkship
1
I-II
Interprofessional clerkship
1
At this adress you can found your plan of studies, which includes all the six years: http://www.medinto.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=home_Study_Plan.html
Clerkships and Integrated Approach to Problem Solving in Medicine and EBM I year clerkships: - Interprofessional clerkship: born to introduce in the hospital actuality the student, practice for doctor-patient relationship and relationship with the other professional figures. In order to understand this and their job, this clerkship is managed by a nursing student. Anatomy and Histology Clerkships: practical approach to these subjects
Integrated Approach to Problem Solving in Medicine and EBM are lessons with frequency requirement that start in the 2nd year and finish in the 5th year. They are faced at the end of each course and want to be a method to break away from pure theory to go further in the medical field with explanations of typical cases for each clinic.
TIMETABLES This is the adress of the timetables: http://www.medinto.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=home_timetable.html
MAIN PLACES On the ground floor of the learning centre you’ll find: • Classrooms: there are 6 classrooms (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet), used mainly for lessons, but sometime they are used as temporary study halls. • Administrative office: http://medchirurgiasl.campusnet.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=segreteria_didattica.html
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On the first floor: • Microscope room • Simulation centre • Computer room • Seminar room If you walk out the black door, you’ll be in a corridor, on which other important places open: • Recharging smart card spot: here, by using a computer, you can add money on your smart card. You can use them to buy reduced meal tickets. • Study hall (“Aula studio”): it’s called “Aula treno”, and it’s made up of three rooms. The door is on the left, after the vending machines. You can enter also by another door, which is situated on the opposite corridor (that is the corridor where the inner bar is placed), but this door has a code number (142420). • Aula pescetti: it’s in front of the study hall and it’s used for didactic activities. • Refectory: walking along the corridor, you’ll find another corridor on the right, and, at the end of it, there is the refectory, where you can eat the canteen meal. If you have your own meal (for example you brought it from home or you bought it at the bar) you can eat it in the room beside, named “Aula L”. • Library: on the same corridor that brings you to the refectory, you’ll find a door on the left, which lets you in the library. Here you can consult books and scientific publications. • Church: on the same corridor that brings you to the refectory, there is a door on the right, that lets you in the church. This door is before the library. • Outside tables: they are placed in the garden between the corridors. • Pitch: it’s placed outside, beside the “Fondazione Cavalieri Ottolenghi”. There you’ll find a tennis court and a football field, managed by the CUS association.
ERASMUS PROJECT The Erasmus Project is an interesting experience which lots of students aspire to and it is rewarded by our University. There are two types of Erasmus: Erasmus + Studio and Erasmus + Traineeship. The Erasmus + Studio is usually performed by students of 3rd, 4th, 5th years for a period between 4 and 12 months: this allows to take the exams and to practice the internship in a foreign country, that will be validated by the origin University. The Erasmus + Traineeship is an international mobility project performed for a period of 2 or 3 months, in which it is possible to attend an hospital and to practice the internship; because of this reason this project is preferred by students of 5th and 6th years, but it is possible to perform during the months immediately after the degree. The total amount of time a med student can spend in a foreign country in Erasmus + related activities is 24 months. The announcements are updated every year. REM: the winner students have usually a brilliant curriculum. Erasmus referent: Professoressa Raimondo (stefania.raimondo@unito.it)
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POLITICS IN UNIVERSITY There are two kind of political bodies in University: central bodies and outer bodies. Outer bodies: Board of Degree Course, which deals with didactics, lessons, exams and trainings. Board of Department, which deals with building and common areas, research, recruitment of teachers and researchers (There are two Departments in San Luigi, Clinical and Biological Sciences, and Oncology). Board of schools, which coordinates all the Degree Courses of the School of Medicine. We sit in these bodies as “SI- San Luigi Union”. Central bodies: Academic Senate, which sets the political and strategical guidelines of University. The Board of Direction, which applies the Senate guidelines, approves the building plan and the budget. Regional assembly for the right to education (Ardisu), which deals with scholarships, dorms, canteens and anything else concerning the right to education. Turin Politecnico and Piemonte Orientale University are also members of Ardisu. . Unique Guarantee Committee (CUG), which secures gender equality and counteracts racism and homophobia in University. Sport Committee (CUS) which promotes sport and fitness in University. We sit in these bodies as members of “Studenti Indipendenti” organization. Studenti Indipendenti aim at an equal, accessible and free of charge University. We’ve been sitting in central bodies of University as absolute majority since 2009. Through the years we have obtained a taxation perfectly proportional to the student’s income, preventing a different taxation between different courses (Unito is still one of the few italian Universities where students of Medicine pay the same amount of other courses). Last year we have obtained a even fairer taxation for the lower income brackets. Also thanks to our political pressures, in the last two years scholarships have been guaranteed to all eligible students in Piedmont (in most of other italian Regions reality is far from these standards). We obtained a lot, but there is still much to be done. Lower income students are free from tax only if they obtain a CFU minimum per year. We instead think that education is a fundamental right and income must be the only standard to set the taxation, especially for students who need to work to finance their own studies: for them it is still harder to obtain that CFU minimum! Over 1000 students this year won’t obtain the room they deserve because of the lack of spaces in dorms. Public transport is totally inadequate, especially for outer locations like ours.
STDENTI INDIPENDENTI SAN LUIGI
SISL are one of the 13 unions that form the organization “Studenti Indipendenti” in Turin. Studenti Indipendenti were set up in 2008 during the strikes against the Education Bill “Gelmini-Tremonti”. Those strikes are also known as “L’Onda” (“The Wave”). Our union has been member of SI since their constitution. We identify with the principle of anti-fascism, anti-sexism and anti-racism. We defend the right to education and we aim at an equal, accessible and free to charge University. As student representants we obtained the division in two parts of some really hard courses, as physiology, that prevented lots of students to prosecute their studies according to the right time. We also obtained the extra december exam session and we have always put the interest of the students first. We aim at interactive and quality teaching that make students protagonist of their own studies. We believe in the importance of practice, and we’re trying to add additional locations in order to have really quality training. At last we think that University is much more than a place where students have their lessons and pass their exams. We think that students have to be involved in society, they have to be citizens and freethinkers. So in the last two years we have organized debates and workshops about current issues, like gender transition and the role of NGOs in war Countries.
CONTACT Francesco Bombaci:° francesco.bombaci@edu.unito.it 3664184169 Carlotta Rubino carlotta.rubino@edu.unito.it 3490796412 Enrico Garello enrico.garello@edu.unito.it 3312642490
Marta Morra marta.morra660@edu.unito.it Luca Mirabile luca.mirabile@edu.unito.it 3478428436 Francesca Sicora francesca.sicora@edu.unito.it 3291352278