Study Medicine in Italy

Now that we’ve looked at what cities have medicine and surgery in English and go over the hurdles you must overcome to be accepted into med school in Italy, let’s see how the degree programs work.

So, after spending years questioning your future career path, you have finally decided to become a doctor.

Preparing for IMAT is extremely time and energy-consuming. Once you get in, things can become pretty frantic: you have a few weeks to complete your matriculation, hop on a train/bus/plane, find a house and actually start attending your lectures.

When comparing Italy to other European countries that offer medical courses in English , it becomes clear that the tuition fees in the public Italian medical schools (400-4000€/year) are nowhere near the 9000+ € that one would pay in eastern European schools  (Hungary, Slovakia, etc.) — or even more, in UK or US medical schools.

What makes one med course different from the others?

One of the things I am really proud of, is the fact that I was able to finish my 6 years of medical studies in Pavia without asking my parents for money nor without getting any loans. In this post I will tell you how I was able to pull it off and give you several feasible and practical income streams that you can start building right away, even if you don’t have any special skills.

Hello again, dear readers and future doctors! I am Ivet Tagareva and today I address you as a second year medical student in BEMC- even more eager to relate my incredible experience studying in Bari! That’s why I will get back to a topic relevant to the first year of my studies and I hope you will enjoy it!

In February of this year, I made a YouTube video called “ How to Study Medicine in English in Italy “. Since then, this video has been watched about 2,400 times — 2,397, to be precise. Now, some of those views are the same person watching more than once, and some are robots rather than people. However, the sample size is large enough now that we can probably discount those multiple and non-human watchers, and get some sense of who, exactly, is interested in the video… and try to extrapolate from that what demographic, around the world, is curious about studying medicine in English in Italy. YouTube, in partnership with Google, makes excellent analytics available for videos. So, let us take a little look at my video’s statistics, and see what we can learn about interest in our international med schools, which, as I have said over and over, are a pioneering phenomenon in medical education. My video, by the way, is just under four minutes long and subtitled in English, so it is accessible to a wide range of people around the planet, regardless of their patience, or ability to understand my funny Connecticut accent.

One surprisingly good reason to study medicine in Italy is the Italian healthcare system itself.

LITA Segrate

When I finished high school and had other obligations, I wanted to start studying Medicine as early as I could. Doing it in my home country would require me to spend 2-3 years just on preparations and improvements.