Medicine and Surgery

Organization and responsibilities
The Quality Assurance (QA) System of Sapienza University is comprehensively described on the webpages of the Quality Team, available at the following address: https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina/team-qualita.
These webpages outline the ten-year process through which the University has developed the Sapienza Quality Assurance system, the organizational model adopted, the actors involved in QA processes (Quality Team, Monitoring Committees, Joint Committees of Faculty and Students, and Degree Programme Quality Committees), the active Working Groups, the main activities carried out, and the documentation prepared to support the management of Quality Assurance processes and activities in Teaching, Research, and Third Mission.
The webpages also serve as a communication platform and as a repository of reference data for periodic review activities, for the preparation of the reports of the Joint Committees of Faculty and Students and the Monitoring Committees, and for the completion of the SUA-Teaching and SUA-Research forms. Each Degree Programme and each Department may adapt the Sapienza Quality Assurance Model described on the Quality Team webpages to its own QA system, tailoring it to its specific organizational features while fully complying with the models and procedures established by ANVUR and the Sapienza Quality Team. Together with the SUA-Teaching and SUA-Research forms, the webpages of the Degree Programmes and Departments constitute the main communication tools through which the implementation of the Quality Assurance System at Degree Programme and Department level is presented.
The Quality Management Committee (Commissione di Gestione per la Qualità, CGQ) is composed of the Chair of the Degree Programme, additional faculty members, one member of the technical-administrative staff, one representative of the professional world, and one student representative.
As a rule, the CGQ meets quarterly and at the end of each academic year to carry out overall monitoring activities. It also convenes to address deadlines related to the SUA sections and whenever circumstances or needs arise, either at the request of its members or upon solicitation by students or faculty members.
Through the CGQ, the Degree Programme monitors the Review Reports, evaluates their outcomes, identifies the strengths that have emerged, highlights any critical issues, and determines the changes deemed necessary. It also verifies the adequacy and effectiveness of the management of the Degree Programme and, where appropriate, proposes corrective actions to be included in the subsequent Review Report. In addition, it reviews the contents of individual course syllabi and monitors the regular delivery of teaching activities.
Through its QA Management Group, the Degree Programme periodically monitors the corrective actions identified in the previous Review Report; evaluates the results of their implementation, highlighting strengths, critical issues, and any further changes considered necessary; verifies the adequacy and effectiveness of the management of the Degree Programme; and, where required, proposes corrective actions to be introduced in the following Review Report. The schedule of meetings is established once the University-level requirements have been completed.
In addition, the Degree Programme Faculty-Student Observatory carries out a detailed analysis of the OPIS questionnaires, including comments provided in the free-text sections, and meets with the lecturers of the courses showing the most significant critical issues. The Faculty-Student Observatory also liaises with the Faculty Joint Committee of Faculty and Students (CPDS). Lastly, the corrective actions identified in the Review Report, together with the analysis of the questionnaires, are presented periodically during the meetings of the Degree Programme Council.

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The Interfaculty Council of the university’s medical area has decided to establish a single Steering Committee (SC) for the Single-Cycle Degree Programs in Medicine and Surgery at Sapienza, aimed at the continuous updating of training profiles and the acquisition of transversal skills within the medical degree programs. It is a permanent consultative body that promotes the sharing of needs, knowledge, and competencies between the world of work, scientific and technological research, production and culture, and that of university education. The establishment of SCs stems from the need for universities to promote Degree Programs (CdS) consistent with the training demand identified by external stakeholders, in order to facilitate the alignment between educational supply and demand, by measuring and adapting the various curricula to the real cultural and productive needs of the territory.

The SC aims to identify the professional and employment opportunities expected for graduates and the training needs, in terms of learning outcomes, expressed by representative organizations from the world of production, services, and professions, with particular reference to those within the socio-economic and productive context relevant to the Degree Program, verifying the consistency between what is planned by the CdS and what is required by the labor market.

The activities of the SC are aimed at ensuring:
a) the expansion of relationships with stakeholders in the design, evaluation, and improvement of the educational offer of the Degree Programs;
b) periodic interaction with Stakeholders (PI);
c) collecting the opinions of Stakeholders (PI) on student training;
d) verifying the presence of needs for updating the training profiles of the Degree Program.

The first meeting of the SC focused on the establishment of the Committee and the evaluation of the teaching regulations of the Degree Programs in Medicine and Surgery recently restructured in accordance with the AVA3 directives, the comprehensive and unified evaluation cycle of teaching, scientific and technological research, and the third mission of Italian universities prepared by the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR) (minutes of 18/02/2025).

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Function: The Commission is competent to:

carry out monitoring activities of the educational offering and the quality of teaching, as well as the service activity to students by professors and researchers;
identify indicators for evaluating the results of the aforementioned activities;
formulate opinions on the activation and discontinuation of degree programs;
report malfunctions and put forward proposals in this regard.

Type: Statutory Body

Composition: Faculty and students

Prof.ssa Esterina Pascale (Presidente)
Prof.ssa Maria Elisa Crestoni
Prof.ssa Roberta Chiaraluce
Prof.ssa Gabriella D’Ettorre
Prof. Domenico Raimondo
Prof. Alberto Macone
Sig.ra Safaa Aouina (rappresentante degli studenti)
Sig.ra Letizia Boccabella (rappresentante degli studenti)
Sig. Cristian Emanuele Minzera (rappresentante degli studenti)
Sig.ra Yole Ruffino (rappresentante degli studenti)
Sig.ra Ludovica De Marchis (rappresentante degli studenti)
Sig. Alessio Battimo (rappresentante degli studenti)

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Consultations with stakeholders were carried out in two distinct settings:
1.on 16 June 2008, within the Technical Working Group for the Planning of Degree Programmes with Restricted Access, established by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), with the participation of the President of the Conference of Faculty Deans, the National Federation of the Orders of Physicians and Dentists (FNOMCEO), and the Ministry of Health;
2.on 13 and 14 June 2008, during the Permanent Conference of Presidents of Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Programmes in Medicine and Surgery, held in Verona, and on 25 June 2008, during the Permanent Conference of Deans of Medicine and Surgery, held in Rome.
At the final meeting of the consultation process at University level, held on 19 January 2009, and taking into account the results of the online consultation that had preceded it, the participating organizations expressed a favourable opinion on the rationalization of Sapienza’s Educational Offer. This process was aimed not only at reducing the number of degree programmes, but also at diversifying them within those degree classes showing high attractiveness and for which teaching staff coverage was more than adequate. Furthermore, after having examined in detail the Educational Offer of the Faculties, the same organizations expressed a favourable opinion on the establishment of the individual degree programmes.

On 18 February 2025, at 2:00 p.m., the inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee of Sapienza’s Medical Faculties was held online for the purpose of presenting the academic regulations of the Degree Programmes in Medicine and Surgery and in Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics.
The following attended the meeting as representatives of the Faculties and Degree Programmes:
the Dean of Medicine and Dentistry, the Vice-Dean of Medicine and Psychology, the Dean of Pharmacy and Medicine, the Deputy Rector for Education, the Student Ombudsperson, the Chairs of the Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Programmes in Medicine and Surgery A, B, C, D, E, F, the Coordinator of the Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Programme in Medicine and Surgery HT, the Chair of the Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Programme in Medicine and Surgery S. Andrea, the Chair of the Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Programme in Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics, the Chair of the Degree Programme in Dental Hygiene, the Chair of the Degree Programmes in Gastronomic Sciences, the Contact Person for Health Professions Class IV, the Contact Person for Health Professions Class I and Coordinator of the Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Programme in Medicine and Surgery G, the Contact Person for Health Professions Class II, the Contact Person for Health Professions Class III, the Coordinator of the Medical Area Specialization Schools, and the Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Pathophysiology and Imaging.
The following attended as representatives of external stakeholders:
IRBM, OPI Rome, TSRM and PSTRP Physiotherapists, the Dentistry Councillor at the Order of Physicians, OFI Lazio, the CNR Director of the Institute of Complex Systems, the President of the National Observatory for Specialist Health Training, the Secretary of General Practitioners of the Lazio Region, a Lecturer in Clinical Education from the University of Newcastle, the Extraordinary Commissioner of the ASL of Rieti, the President of the Provincial Order of Physicians and Dentists of Latina, the President of the Order of Physicians of Rome, the Association for Childhood and Adolescent Diabetes of Lazio (ADIG Lazio), the Legal Representative of PFIC Italia Network, the Director General of the AOU Policlinico Umberto I (or delegate), the President of Aiop Lazio, the President of the Lazio Health Department of Confcommercio, Farmindustria, and the Head of Medical Affairs of Alfasigma.
The following attended as student representatives:
the Representative of PhD Students in the Medical Area, the Representative of Medical Residents, the Student Representatives of the Board of Medicine and Dentistry, the Student Representatives of the Board of Pharmacy and Medicine, and the Student Representatives of the Board of Medicine and Psychology.
Summary of the outcome of the stakeholder consultation
At the opening of the meeting, the Deans of Sapienza’s Medical Faculties and the Deputy Rector for Education specified that the establishment of the Steering Committee stemmed from the need for universities to promote Degree Programmes consistent with the training demand identified by external stakeholders (representative organizations from the world of production, services, and the professions), in order to foster alignment between educational demand and educational provision. This should be achieved by assessing and adapting the various curricula, including in terms of learning outcomes, to the actual cultural and productive needs of the local area, for example by identifying the professional and employment opportunities envisaged for graduates, also in light of the new AVA 3 model.
The academic regulations of the Degree Programmes in Medicine and Surgery and in Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics were presented in accordance with the new ministerial decrees relating to Degree Classes (Ministerial Decree no. 1648 of 19 December 2023) and to Master’s Degree Classes and Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Classes (Ministerial Decree no. 1649 of 19 December 2023).
The results of the questionnaire sent to the members of the Steering Committee in order to gather opinions and suggestions were also presented.
Based on the contributions made by the participants, the following proposals and/or observations emerged:
• the development of training pathways specifically dedicated to research methodology;
• the implementation of pedagogical methods aimed at improving and facilitating student learning and well-being, with a view to training a better medical profession;
• the monitoring of students’ workload;
• the assessment of the needs of the healthcare and industrial systems;
• the need to strengthen teamwork between physicians and healthcare professionals in order to ensure an efficient healthcare system.
For consultation of the full minutes, please refer to the following link: https://farmed.web.uniroma1.it/it/documentazione-cds-20252026

• Annual Monitoring Form (AMF) (PDF)
• Cyclic Review Report (CPR) (PDF)
• Opis Results Analysis Document (Opis-RAD) (PDF)