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27/09/2022

GRADUATION DAY 👩‍🎓

After 6 years of medical school, passing 36 exams, living in Rome for 5 years and in Germany for 1 year, writing and defending my thesis, I can say that I am officially a Medical Doctor!

I received my MD degree (with Honors) on July 12th, after presenting and defending my thesis that day. My thesis topic was related to dermatology, my favorite specialty.

June was quite a busy month, since it was filled with studying for my last exams, finishing my thesis and celebrating the graduation of my fellow classmates.

In my next post I am planning to describe how graduation and the thesis defense work at my university.

07/04/2022

Recently I won a “Student-collaboration Scholarship” (Borsa di collaborazione). The activity is for students enrolled in years following the first. Awarded students work at university structures such as libraries, lecture rooms, information services, laboratories etc. The contract includes 150 hours, usually divided into maximum 4 hour shifts per day. The total payment amounts to 1295€ in the academic year 2021/2022. One may apply for maximum 8 calls per year, however the contract may be signed only for 1 scholarship. Students are selected based on their grade average and number of exams passed (credits).

I have just started this week and so far my responsibilities included organizing articles in the Scopus system (Elsevier’s abstract and citation database, similar to PubMed) for the Head of the Department, as well as working at the lecture room (study hall / library). From what I know, later we will also have to reorganize some of the books in the department.

18/02/2022

4 exams left until graduation! 📚👩‍🎓

In March I will start my internship at the General Practitioner’s office. It will take 5 weeks. In the meantime I should also receive some information about my UK Foundation Programme application 🇬🇧 So far I haven’t received any news regarding my SJT score nor any other updates. Hopefully I will also find out soon which city and department I have been assigned to in Brazil, where I am planning to spend all of August doing a practical internship from IFMSA (SISM) 🇧🇷

For now I am trying to enjoy my free moments in sunny Rome ☀️🇮🇹

01/02/2022

A skiing day trip is something I really needed. I have 5 exams left until graduation and I cannot wait to be done with the February exam session.

I have been less active here and in general on social media because I am trying to focus on studying. I hope everything will go well.

In March I will start my 3rd and last part of the obligatory TPVES internship - the 5-week-long rotation at the General Practicioner’s office. I am looking forward to it and hoping to learn a lot.

30/12/2021

Merry Christmas and a Happy upcoming New Year! 🎊

December 2021 was quite intense for me so I did not post much on social media and now am making the time to rest before the New Year starts.

This month I have officially finished my Surgical and Internal Medicine internships, however I still need to receive the Professors’ signatures. On top of my 2 medical school exams (Diseases of Sensory Organs - Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Pathology and Movement Disorders - Rheumatology) I also took the Situational Judgment Test (SJT) for the 2-year UK Foundation Programme (UKFP).

I have around half of a year left until the end of medical school. Exactly 6 exams to do until graduation and I also need to write and defend my master thesis. Ahead of me are also 5-week-long practicals in March at the General Practitioner’s office (GP) as part of the TPVES internships.

In the upcoming New Year I hope to post more on social media, however only time will tell 🙈

Currently I am also working on my IFMSA application to Brazil 🇧🇷 I am in the process of choosing the cities, one of which I will spend a month in doing practicals at the hospital as part of the SCOPE exchange program 😊

17/11/2021

This week I am doing a takeover for so make sure to check out their stories and mine! I even finally had the time to show some bits and pieces of the Policlinico Umberto I hospital in which we have practicals. The hospital tour and some other interesting stories are saved in my story highlights “Year 6” or “Daily Life 🇮🇹”, so in case you missed something you can always catch up or rewatch it!

This week I have started my Internal Medicine rotation, which is part of the obligatory TPVES internship (tirocinio abilitante). These three 5-week-long practicals, which amount to a minimum of 100 hours each, are required to be finished before graduation. The mandatory disciplines are Surgery, Internal Medicine and General Practice (GP). I managed to do the surgical part in Germany, however I still have to complete the latter two. We keep a diary log of the activities that we do each day in our dedicated booklets. In the mornings we go to the hospital for TPVES (in groups of max 5 people) and then in the afternoon we all meet in class in presence for lectures.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to express your thoughts below! ⬇️

10/10/2021

First week of university 🇮🇹

Keeping a healthy life-work balance, which so far is perfect, however I know it will be harder once we start practicals and once I start working on my thesis. On the right hand side of the collage are pictures I took this week at the university and on the left are the ones I took while enjoying some time off in the eternal city 😊

We are back to classes in presence, which feel like a huge change after 1.5 years of lectures online. So far we have only had Public Health during which we learned a bit about the organization of healthcare systems and we will learn more about economics in that context. We also reviewed some statistics, which in my opinion might be useful for our thesis preparation.

One of my classmates proposed organizing a class aperitivo that took place on Friday. It was a great beginning of the new academic year and the new semester. I was glad to meet everyone and have a chat on various topics ☺️

Let’s hope the upcoming week will be as good as my first week of 6th year!

06/10/2021

IMAT 2021 rankings are out! 🇮🇹🩺

Today officially both EU and non-EU candidates could find out if they have been admitted to Medical School in Italy!

has put together a table (link in their bio) to show all the minimum scores of EU students so far. New rankings will come out each week, so the minimal scores will change.

For non-EU students - there are lists of students published for each University. Since non-EU applicants only have one choice they can find out all the information on the website of the University of their choice.

If you have any questions then feel free to comment down below! ⬇️

Hope to see many of you on October 25th (start of classes for first year students at )! 😊

05/10/2021

My last “first day” of medical school was yesterday! 🩺

My journey in the International Medical School is slowly coming to an end. As the saying goes “it’s the beginning of the end”. I hope this year will bring fruitful work, it will be full of personal growth and development, a wonderful ending of my final moments as a university student.

We have received our schedule and for now we are covering all the lectures of Public Health. Yesterday we learned a bit about health systems in the world and today we had a lesson on quantitative methods (measures of frequency and association). We have a “block” of lectures in that subject for now, so we will finish it by November 11th. Other students will also follow classes in gynecology, pediatrics, internal medicine and surgery, however I will have to catch up with 5th year subjects (due to Erasmus) in the meantime.

Next week we will also start TPVES (tirocinio abilitante), which is an obligatory internship each student has to do in order to graduate. It includes three 5-week-long rotations in surgery, internal medicine and at the general practitioner. I did the surgical practicals in Bonn, so I should only have to do surgery and GP internships.

One more important task for this year is getting my thesis done, which is another requirement for graduation. I am trying to get an approval from my supervisor as quickly as possible.

For residency applications my goals are Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the UK. For Germany and Switzerland the first step I am taking is getting the B2 German language certificate (Goethe Zertifikat). For Italy - in November I will start my preparatory course for the residency entrance exam. For the UK - I am applying for the F1 year of the Foundation Programme and so far I have received Eligibility to apply, chosen my preferences of the deaneries (regions) and booked the Situational Judgment Test (SJT) exam for December.

My Erasmus documents are still being processed and I am waiting for recognition. I am planning to prepare a post as soon as I am done with all the paperwork.

That’s a brief summary of what is going on at the moment 😊

6th year - here I come! ✨

03/10/2021

6th year of medical school starts tomorrow!

My last year of medical school will start tomorrow (October 4th) and I am excited but also a bit stressed. This mix of emotions will most probably keep me company throughout the entire academic year. If everything goes according to plan then in one year I will be a fully licensed doctor. This means making my dream come true but also a lot of responsibility.

I am planning to use this year for gaining more clinical experience and my goal is to try to be as prepared for the job as possible. Hopefully I will keep learning foreign languages in the meantime.

More updates coming soon and I hope all of you will enjoy this journey with me!🎢

02/09/2021

IMAT is just 1 week away!

The test is just around the corner. IMAT 2021 is going to take place on September 9th 2021. Since the exam is so soon, I decided to share some of my last minute tips! Here are my top 10 😊 Hope you all will enjoy this post and good luck to all the candidates🍀

Are you ready for the IMAT? 📚l

17/07/2021

How to choose the right University? 🇮🇹

There are still a few days left until the IMAT 2021 registration closes, so I wanted to share a few of my tips on how to choose the right University in Italy for studying medicine in English.

First of all, my advice is to choose a city that you would enjoy living in for the next 6 years. Let’s face it - 6 years is not a short amount if time (even though it’s flying by for me). Think of whether there are things to do that you enjoy, whether it is connected well to your home city/country. Think of the costs of fees, costs of living.

Second of all, I suggest trying to connect with students at the preferred universities and getting inside information about the course itself. Also, keep in mind that it is worth taking into consideration extracurricular opportunities, for example my university has the .eu program, some universities in the northern part of Italy have the , so it might be worth taking those opportunities into consideration.

My next piece of advice would be not to really look at rankings too closely, as the factors taken into ranking lists often do not represent the particular course. Even if they are specifically focused on medicine - they tend to show the situation both in the Italian and English courses together and not separately.

Lastly, if you are an EU candidate, then I suggest not putting universities on the top of the list just because they showed lower IMAT score thresholds in the previous years. If anything - do the opposite. If you get into the university of your 1st choice then the other choices automatically become unavailable, so you lose your other possibilities.

Choose wisely and good luck to all!🍀

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