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The program · 4 weeks · Florence, Italy

Three courses and documents that survive scrutiny.

University coursework and guided hospital experiences. Here is exactly what that means, course by course.

The three courses

University credit

Medical Italian

The language of the clinic: terminology, patient conversations, and the register Italian physicians actually use. Taught in small groups, graded, recorded on your Unicollege transcript.

Graded · On transcript · Syllabus available for credit review
University credit

The Italian Healthcare System

How a universal national health service works: structure, access, economics and everyday clinical culture - the comparative view U.S. committees love to probe in interviews.

Graded · On transcript · Syllabus available for credit review
Certificate course

Wellbeing & Foundations of the Health Professions

A physician-taught survey of the health professions - how care is organised, how clinicians work, wellbeing and patient communication - with contact hours, assessment and a final grade. Issued as a university certificate with the full syllabus, so your home institution can evaluate it for transfer on its own terms.

Graded certificate · Full syllabus and contact hours · Credit transfer at your home institution's discretion
Why two labels? Language and healthcare-system courses sit inside our accredited university curriculum, so they carry university credit. The science survey is taught at university level by physicians and documented in full - but whether it transfers as credit is your home institution's call, and we will never pretend otherwise.

A typical week

Mornings in the classroom, hospital experiences as scheduled with the hosting institution.

Between classes, on campus. The week is full - it is not packed.

Students during a break on the Florence campus
Mon

Medical Italian · Healthcare System lecture

Tue

Foundations of the Health Professions · study session

Wed

Hospital experience, when scheduled by the hosting institution (small group, accompanied)

Thu

Medical Italian · Healthcare System seminar

Fri

Guided cultural program

Hospital hours, honestly. Guided hospital experiences total about 45 to 48 hours over the four weeks, three afternoons a week, in the settings each hospital's medical direction authorises. If a partner hospital opens more, yours grow - but we promise the floor, not the ceiling.

What you leave with

A Unicollege transcript

Your graded university coursework, issued in English.

A graded certificate with full syllabi

For the science survey: contact hours, assessment criteria, final grade - everything a registrar asks for.

Course-by-course details are in the program brief.

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