Course program
As provided by the art. 3 of the Ministerial Decree 9 May 2018 n. 58, the internship:
1. is aimed at ascertaining the student's abilities relating to "know-how" and knowing "how to be" a doctor, which consists in applying biomedical and clinical knowledge to medical practice, in resolving issues of professional ethics and medical ethics, in demonstrating the ability to resolve clinical problems relating to the areas of medicine and surgery and related specialties, laboratory and instrumental diagnostics and public health; to apply the principles of effective communication;
2. involves a total of three months and is completed no earlier than the fifth year of the course and provided that all the fundamental exams relating to the first four years of the course have been satisfactorily passed, and is organized according to what is established by the administration and regulations of each course of study;
3. takes place for a number of hours corresponding to at least 5 CFU for each month (each CFU reserved for the internship must correspond to at least 20 hours of professional teaching activity and no more than 5 hours of individual study) and is divided into the following (not necessarily consecutives) timeframes: one month in the surgical area, one month in the medical area, one month in the specific field of general medicine, the latter to be carried out no earlier than the sixth year of the course, at the clinic of a general practitioner;
4. the certification of attendance and the evaluation of the internship periods take place under the direct responsibility and care of the university professor or medical director, responsible for the facility attended by the intern, and the general practitioner, who issue formal certification of attendance and express , after evaluating the results relating to the skills demonstrated, if positive, a judgment of suitability, on this booklet-diary, which is divided into a descriptive part of the activities carried out and an evaluation part of the demonstrated skills;
5. it is considered passed only if the suitability assessment is obtained for each of the three periods.
Prerequisites
In order to access the INTERNSHIP FOR THE STATE EXAM, students must have passed all the required exams in the first 4 years of the Course.
Books
Internal Medicine and General Surgery textbooks made available by the University Libraries.
https://www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/sapienza-library-system
Frequency
The certification of attendance and the evaluation of the internship periods take place under the direct responsibility and care of the university professor or the medical director, responsible for the facility attended by the intern, and the general practitioner, who issue formal certification of attendance and express, after having evaluated the results relating to the skills demonstrated, if positive, a judgment of suitability, in this booklet-diary, which is divided into a descriptive part of the activities carried out and an evaluation part of the skills demonstrated.
The practical-evaluative internship can also be carried out using the months in which teaching activities are not normally carried out (generally January, February, June, July, August, September) to reach the 100 certifiable hours for the purposes of the Ministerial Decree.
Exam mode
The certification of attendance and the evaluation of the internship periods take place under the direct responsibility and care of the university professor or the medical director, responsible for the facility attended by the intern, and the general practitioner, who issue formal certification of attendance and express, after having evaluated the results relating to the skills demonstrated, if positive, a judgment of suitability, in this booklet-diary, which is divided into a descriptive part of the activities carried out and an evaluation part of the skills demonstrated;
It is considered passed only if the suitability assessment is obtained for each of the three periods.