In the "Lucio Parenzan" Auditorium, the "Taste of the Future" event to celebrate the first 17 graduates of the English-language master's and inter-university degree program, created through a collaboration between the University of Milan-Bicocca, the University of Bergamo, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital and the English University of Surrey. Altruism, caring for others, the role of the physician as a mediator between illness and healing, the medical profession as community work and as a profession that seeks to reconnect patients with their wholeness, the values testified by the new physicians in front of many authorities.
Bergamo celebrates its first medical graduates with an event held at the "Lucio Parenzan" Auditorium of Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital entitled "Taste of the Future." The protagonists were the 17 young surgeons from the international, inter-university, English-language Medicine and Surgery Master's degree program, a joint degree between the University of Milan-Bicocca and the University of Bergamo, trained not only in medical disciplines but also in bioengineering and technology disciplines.
After presenting and discussing their dissertations, all in clinical research, at the University of Milano-Bicocca on July 3, the first seventeen graduates were celebrated in Bergamo by academics, families and fellow students in a ceremony attended by many dignitaries.
The Medicine and Surgery Master's Degree course represents a challenge in the field of education for many reasons: because it aims to train physicians who immediately develop an approach "of doing" and in the field, innovatively enhancing the teaching role of one of the leading regional hospitals, which is the Pope John XXIII. The early contact with patients (already from the second year of the course), the interactive learning method to develop the ability to solve critical situations, the approach to prevention and territorial medicine, the sensitivity to ethical aspects, but also to the economic impact of care, as well as the strong international vocation (with a course entirely in English, a gateway to a research career as well) are just some of the strengths of the training proposal.
A point of great innovation is the presence in the Curriculum of a large part of training in technologies developed and applied to health care: only in this way can the physicians of the future be active agents of new perspectives and not passive users of the existing.
The numbers confirm the international vocation of SMS: there are a total of 206 students in the Medicine and Surgery course, divided between 92 males and 114 females. Of these 106 students are Italian and 100 foreign (20 from European Union countries and 80 from non-EU countries). In all, there are 33 countries of origin. There are 42 places available to enter the course of study this year, 26 for EU citizens or residents in Italy and 16 reserved for non-EU students applying for visas.