CALL FOR APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER STUDENTS WISHING TO ENROL IN

THE DEGREE PROGRAM IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN ENGLISH AT

HUMANITAS UNIVERSITY

Application deadline: July 15th 2022

Foreword

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR EU AND NON-EU STUDENTS WHO WISH TO

TRANSFER TO THE 2ND, 3RD and 4th YEAR OF HUMANITAS UNIVERSITY (hereafter
referred to as HU) DEGREE PROGRAM IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY

Admittance to the Degree Program is subject to selection through the University

Transfer Procedure.

ART. 1 NUMBER OF PLACES AVAILABLE

Available places are:

 2nd year | 6 (six) places available

 3rd year | 8 (eight) places available

 4th year| 2 (two) places currently available

Additional places may become available if there are further withdrawals. HU will consider
transferring students to the 4th year only if:

 the study program closely matches the one of HU

 there is a good command of Italian language

 the essential professional skills required to go into the 4th year have been acquired.

Admissions to the 1st year are exclusively granted through the admission test.

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ART. 2 ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

2.1 Incoming degree course

HU will consider applications only if the incoming degree is in Medicine.

The incoming University and its Medical Program must be fully recognized in the Country where
the incoming University is legally established in order to be considered for the transfer.

2.2 Credits

The University will take into account credits of:

 the exams already passed;

 the exams that the candidate plans to take within the month of July

Starting from academic year 2021-2022 Humanitas University has partially redesigned the study
curriculum. Therefore students applying to 2nd year will follow the curriculum reported in Annex
1 while students applying to the 3rd and 4th year will follow the curriculum reported in Annex 2.

To be eligible to transfer to:

 the second year, students must have achieved at least 80% of the number of credits
corresponding to the disciplines of the first year of HU study plan with the exception of the
disciplines of the course “Being a Medical Doctor” (See Annex 1, table 1)

 the third year, students must have achieved all the credits of the first year (See Annex 2,
table 1) with the exception of the disciplines of the course “Being a Medical Doctor” and all
the credits of the disciplines of the second year ( See Annex 2, table 2) with the exception
of the disciplines included in the course “Mechanisms of Diseases”

 the fourth year, students must have achieved all the credits of the first year (see Annex 2,
table 1) with the exception of the disciplines of the course “Being a Medical Doctor”, all the
credits of the disciplines of the second year (See Annex 2, table 2) and at least 80% of the
of the number of credits corresponding to the disciplines of the third of HU study plan (see
See Annex 2, table 3). Also basic skills requirement (See Annex 2, Table 4) should be
acquired to access the 4th year.

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 2.3 Language Requirements
 A good command of English is required: a language assessment test will be
conducted by means of an interview.
 Non-Italian students m ust be able to speak Italian from the beginning of the third
year when the professionalizing activities begin; a language assessment test will be
conducted by means of an interview.

ART. 3 APPLICATIONS

Applications must be submitted, on penalty of exclusion, through Humanitas University

website | https://www.hunimed.eu/transfer-medicine

Candidates will be also required to upload the following documents:

1. ID or Passport

2. Curriculum Vitae

3. Credits evaluation Form 2nd for year and Credits evaluation form for 3 rd/4th year:

• By July 15th: with credits of the exams passed and credits of exams to be taken
by the end of July
• By August 10th: updated with the exams effectively taken by the end of July (send
only via email to [email protected])

4. Exam Transcript

• By July 15th
• By August 10th: if additional exams have been taken by the end of July (send only
via email to [email protected])

5. English Language Certificate (if any)

6. Italian Language Certificate (if any)

7. Syllabi of exams successfully completed or expected to be completed within July

8. Brief explanation of the evaluation system of the incoming University (i.e. describe the
scoring system) (not necessary for candidates from Italian universities)

The documents must be uploaded in the order specified above. Documents should be
correctly labeled.
Applications will be accepted only if compliant with the procedure stated in this paragraph.
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The file containing the Syllabi should be correctly labeled and easily identifiable.
Humanitas University will not consider any application missing of any of the
documents listed above.

Documents must be in Italian or in English. If documents are originally released in a

different language, the translation in English must be supplied by an official translator.

How to complete the Credits Evaluation Forms

The credit evaluation form should be completed as follows:

 Column A to H is where candidates should insert personal and incoming

University details.
 Column I to L describe Humanitas University courses and the modules of each
single course.
 Column M is where candidates should insert the corresponding course of the
incoming University. For example if a course of the incoming university,
denominated “Anatomy”, covers HU courses “Building Bodies: from Gametes to
Organs” and “Body Architecture” the table should be filled as follows:

NUMEB
R OF CORRISPONDI
COURSE MODULES CREDIT NG COURSE
NAME S NAME
(CFU)
Human Anatomy 5 Anatomy
1ST Building Bodies: from Gamets to Organs
YEAR Histology and 6 Anatomy
Embryology
COURS
ES Body Architecture Human Anatomy 9 Anatomy

The corresponding course name of the incoming University should be inserted in

correspondence of the Humanitas University course after having compared the
Syllabus of incoming University with the ones of Humanitas University, available on
the website https://www.hunimed.eu/course/medicine/program-structure/

 Column N is where candidates should mark with an X the passed exams;

 Column O is where candidates should mark with an X the exams planned for
the second half of the month of July;
 Column P is where candidates should insert the formative credits of the
course of the incoming University;
 Column Q is where candidates should insert the clock hours corresponding
to the course of the incoming University;
 Column R is where candidates should insert the score of the passed exams;
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  Column S is where candidates should insert achievable maximum score
according the scoring scale of the incoming University.

ART. 4 CANDIDATE EVALUATION

Based on the evaluation of admission requirements, a ranking list will be generated. The
ranking list will take into account:
1. the curriculum;

2. the number and type of incoming credits of the candidates and the content match
of their curriculum with Humanitas University study program;
3. the correspondence of the clock hours of the courses;

4. the grades of the exams taken.

On the basis of criteria 1 to 4 a shortlist of students will be generated.

The final ranking will be generated also following the evaluation of the interview with the
Dean of the Medical School.
A slight credit/clock hour deficit may be accepted if the study programs closely match in
content. In such cases, once the student is admitted, an additional evaluation may be
requested for a limited number of subjects in order to be granted access to the specific
examinations of the admission year.

ART. 5 - APPLICATION FEE

Application fee is set at € 150 and must be paid online on completing the application form.

ART. 6 – PUBLICATION OF THE ADMISSION LIST

The admission results will be published on Humanitas University website by September 17th,
2022.

During the selection procedures candidates will be attributed a numeric code to identify their
positionin the ranking.
Should other places become available after September 17th, further admissions will be
granted following the admission results list.

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ANNEX 1 – ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS APPLYING TO SECOND YEAR
Students applying to the third year should comply with exams reported in table 1.

Table 1 (First Year HU Study Plan – 2021/2022)

COURSE TEACHING CFU MODULES CFU

PRINCIPLES OF THE LIVING Medical Physics 3
9
MATTER (1ST SEMESTER) Chemistry 6
Histology 6
BUILDING BODIES (1ST 12 Anatomy 5
SEMESTER)
Citology 1
History of Medicine 1
BEING A MEDICAL DOCTOR (1ST 3 Bioethics 1
SEMESTER)
Pedagogy 1
THE CELL: MOLECULES AND
6 Applied biology 6
PROCESSES (2ND SEMESTER)
Biochemistry 6
THE CELL: FUNCTIONS AND
9
CONTROL (2ND SEMESTER)
Human Physiology 3

BODY ARCHITECTURE (2ND Anatomy 10

11
SEMESTER) Radiology 1
Pedagogy 1
BEING A MEDICAL DOCTOR General Psychology 1
3
(2ND SEMESTER)
Clinical Psychology 1
Total 53

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ANNEX 2 – ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS APPLYING TO THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR
Students applying to the third year should comply with exams reported in table 1 and table 2.

Students applying to the Fourth year should comply with exams reported in table 1, 2, and 3

Table 1 (First Year HU Study Plan – 2020/2021)

COURSE TEACHING CFU MODULES CFU

PRINCIPLES OF THE LIVING Medical Physics 3
9
MATTER (1ST SEMESTER) Chemistry 6
BUILDING BODIES (1ST Histology and Embryology 6
SEMESTER) 11 Human Anatomy 5

BEING A MEDICAL History of Medicine 1

DOCTOR (1ST SEMESTER) 4 Bioethics 1
General pedagogy 2
Biochemistry 5
THE CELL: MOLECULES 19 Applied biology 6
AND PROCESSES (ANNUAL) Cytology 1
Molecular biology 5
Genetics 2
BODY ARCHITECTURE (2ND
SEMESTER) 9 Human anatomy 9

TOTAL 52

Table 2 (Second Year HU Study Plan – 2020/2021)

COURSE TEACHING CFU MODULES CFU

Human physiology 7
BODY AT WORK 1 (1ST 14 Biochemistry 2
SEMESTER) Neuroanatomy 3
Medical physics 2
General pathology and
14
MECHANISM OF DISEASES (ANNUAL) Immunology
22 Microbiology 6
Genetics 2
Human physiology 9
BODY AT WORK 2 (2ND 15 Biochemistry 4
SEMESTER) Human anatomy 1
Medical physics 1
TOTAL 51

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Table 3 (Third Year HU Study Plan – 2020/2021)

COURSE TEACHING CFU MODULE CFU

Clinical biochemistry 2
FOUNDATIONS FOR SYSTEM
7 Pharmacology 3
DISEASES (1ST SEMESTER)
Pathology 1
Radiology 1
Cardiovascular diseases 5
Nephrology 4
Pharmacology 2
SYSTEM DISEASES 1 (1ST 17 Pathology 2
SEMESTER) Internal medicine 1
General surgery 1
Radiology 1
Urology 1
General psychology 2
COMMUNICATION
4 Clinical psychology 1
SKILLS(ANNUAL)
Internal medicine 1
Pharmacology 1
SYSTEM DISEASES 1 (2ND Radiology 1
SEMESTER) 13 Blood diseases 4
Pathology 1
Internal medicine 1
General surgery 1
Respiratory diseases 4
Otorhinolaryngological diseases
2
HEAD AND NECK 8 Odontostomatological diseases 2
(2NDSEMESTER) Opthalmological diseases 2
Human anatomy 1
Human physiology 1
ND
BIOSTATISTICS (2
4 Biostatistics 4
SEMESTER)
TOTAL 53

Table 4. Professional skills required to have access to the 4th year

Basic skills in traditional history taking and in writing a medical report with a
specific focus on nephrological, cardiological, pneumological and haematological patient

Basic level of confidence in performing the basic steps of clinical examination of urinary,
cardiovascular, pulmonary and haematological system, of the ear, nose,
throat and mouth, of the breast and lymph nodes
Interpretation of EEG with a basic level of confidence
Perform and interpret blood gas analysis with a basic level of confidence

Propaedeutics: exams required exams to access the 3rd year

In order to be enrolled and admitted to the 3rd year the following exams must have been
passed:
 Building Bodies: from gametes to organs Body architecture
 The cell: molecules and processes Principles of the living matter
 Body at Work 1
 Body at Work 2