The IMS-Milan’s English-language MD program educates top-level international researchers and clinicians, at one of Europe’s scientific powerhouse state universities.
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A Visit to the New English Med School in Turin
The universities of Turin, Bologna, and Florence are all in various stages of planning an English-language med school. Here’s a look at Turin.
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Student Xhorxhi Kaçi’s Welcome Speech at IMS Milan White Coat Day
“…that paragraph you skipped and weren’t asked at the exam? That knowledge might have made a patient’s life a little easier.”
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Why Tomorrow’s Pavia-Milan Football Match Matters
It’s not just about the rivalry. It’s about friendship.
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How to Find Housing in Milan
Here are easy steps to finding housing for students of IMS Milan — and perhaps also Naples, Bari, Rome, and Pavia.
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We Belong to the World
by João Victor Cornicelli “I am going to become a doctor, doing the best I can for the people that surround me.”
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How To Live Inexpensively — and Well — in Milan
Don’t believe the rumors that studying at IMS Milan is expensive. You can live very cheaply — and well — in this cosmopolitan, world-class city.
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Student Support Services at the University of Milan
A month and a half ago, my dad, across the ocean, was diagnosed with cancer. I needed someone to talk to about it — and the University of Milan came through.
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Meet the Professors: Chiarella Sforza
“Teaching is an interactive activity … where everyone plays a key role. If successful, all of this is extremely rewarding.”
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North Korean Contemporary Art, on Display in Milan
The art — and the story of how it got to Milan — is incredible.
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An Art Exhibition on Migration and Humanitarian Aid
We visited an emotionally-moving art exhibition, on human migration, co-sponsored by Emergency, similar to Doctors Without Borders, based near IMS-Milan.
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IMS-Milan Is Applying for California Accreditation
The International Medical School of the University of Milan is taking a major step toward attempting to ensure that its graduates will be able to do residencies throughout the entire United States. It is the first English-language med school in Italy to apply for... read more
Cycling Around the Milan Countryside
From Milan and the neighborhoods around IMS, there are beautiful bike trails to help you get your mind off medical studies, or reflect upon what you have learned.
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Scenes of Spring at IMS-Milan
Two decades ago, I spent the spring and summer in Italy, in Tuscany, on an archaeological dig. The thing that struck me back then about the country was how alive it was. I have since seen a lot of places — including the true tropics — but there is... read more
Can You Do a US Residency After English-Language Italian Med School?
The short answer to this question is: possibly. The long answer is… complicated, and perhaps interesting. Many of my fellow students — and potential applicants to the English-language medical schools in Italy — would like to have the option of doing... read more
Problem-Based Learning at IMS-Milan
During problem-based learning, medical students analyze, in teams, a real-life case scenario, step-by-step, as if they were seeing the patient themselves. How does this play out specifically in an international medical school? At IMS-Milan, this month, we began... read more
Inside the Anatomy Labs at the University of Milan
This week, we first-years at IMS-Milan went for our first field practical, to learn how to stain slides for clinical observation. Our professor took us to the university’s Department of Anatomy. What we found was a hundred years’ worth of very cool... read more
Our Furry Friend at IMS Milan
Many afternoons, a cute little creature greets us on our way home from school. Meet Charisse. A brook runs by LITA, the home of IMS-Milan. The brook is actually part of an artificial network of irrigation canals that traverses the municipality of Segrate, wherein LITA... read more
Milan to the Swiss Alps
Milan is only about a half-hour from the Swiss Alps, a great getaway for a busy med student. Let’s take a ride. You can actually see the Alps from IMS Milan. A ticket to the Swiss town of Chiasso, at their foot, is 5.50 €, and takes 33 minutes by direct train.... read more
IMS Milan Football Season Opener: 2nd-Years Win in Pouring Rain
In the inaugural match of IMS intramural football, the 2nd-years have beat the 1st-years 7-5 on a stormy Saturday in Milan-Lambrate. Fans and players then retired to my apartment for tea, supper, and party games. The tightly-fought victory by the second years was... read more
Our First Real Look at Disease
Until today, in the first-year class at IMS Milan, we have only spoken about disease. Today, under the microscope, we actually looked at it — and the experience was profound. Our professor semi-surprised us, this week, with real-life medicine. Last night, she... read more
A Surprising Night Out in Milan: East Market
On Sunday last week, my classmates came over to my place for a party, at my apartment. Afterwards, we all walked around the block — and could not believe what we found.
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How to Study Medicine in English in Italy [video]
A video primer on international MD programs at Italian public universities
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My First Exam at IMS Milan
We are getting an incredibly rigorous medical education. That is what I learned from my first exam.
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Milan Has, Possibly, the World’s Best English-Language Medical Bookstore
You would think that the world’s best medical bookstore would be in an English-speaking country, right? Actually, it very well might be in Italy.
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Italy’s Superb Health Care System
One surprisingly good reason to study medicine in Italy is the health care system itself.
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Why Studying Histology is Like Learning the Kanji
Shape is the expression of function — or meaning.
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The Amazing Embryo
The takeaway from my first full day of exam prep was the jaw-dropping wonder of the beginning of human development.
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Two Weeks to Exams
Our first microanatomy, embryology, and histology exam is in two weeks. Here is what it is like to be buried in the textbooks at a med school in English in Italy.
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Meet the Professors: Massimiliano Pagani
“I really love teaching at the International Medical School, because it is an amazing environment, with people from all over the world.”
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Milan → New York → Milan
One of the many reasons I chose Milan to study medicine is that it has the most numerous, and least expensive, transit connections to and from Italy. To illustrate, here is a chronicle of my wonderful trip home in New York for the holidays.
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List of Countries Represented in Our Class
I have spoken individually with (almost) all 46 of my amazing classmates in the first year at the IMS Milan, and asked them what country, or countries, they represent. There are 21 countries in total.
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The Elegant Milan Tram
The Milan tram system — the city’s above-ground streetcar network — is an elegant form of public transit, little-known to the rest of the world. Let us take a ride.
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Meet the Professors: Roberto Cerbino
“Always think. Be curious and positively critical. Try to change your angle. Take your time to understand, because understanding is forever.”
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Studying the Heart
I was scared to study the heart (literally, not metaphorically). However, doing so has turned out to be a pleasure. How? 1) I have been systematically making doodles based on Gray’s Anatomy for Students, and 2) I got to play with a ceramic heart model. In the process, I have learned important lessons both about how to study, and about overcoming the fear of failure in med school.
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Three Fascinating Things We Learned in the First Month
We are in the middle of a two-day vacation for the Italian and Milanese holidays of the Festa di Sant’Ambrogio and Immacolata, here at the International Medical School at the University of Milan. We have finished just over one month of studies, and within this time, learned some amazing concepts. Here are three examples.
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More Shops around IMS Milan
Today during lunch, we went out again for a short walk around LITA, home of IMS Milan. There is some good shopping — particularly, eating — within five minutes by foot.
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You Can See the Mountains from IMS Milan!
This afternoon, as I was biking to school, I looked at the horizon and saw something I had not yet seen from Milan: the Alps. It was quite a surprise.
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Milan IMS Convocation 2015
On Friday, the International Medical School at the University of Milan held its convocation, or what it calls Welcome Day, at LITA, our laboratory-learning facility. An assembly, with speakers, was followed by a cheerful reception.
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Meet the Professors: Nicoletta Gagliano
“Continuous curiosity, and the desire to learn, should represent the fuel of a great medical student.”
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A Study System
Studying medicine in Italy, in English, has some unique implications for note-taking. Here is a system I have devised.
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All About Textbooks
It is nearly impossible to master the discipline of medicine without textbooks. At the IMS at the University of Milan, we have considerable choice about the textbooks we use, and a number of different ways of acquiring them.
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Our Study of Histology
Histology, the study of biological tissues, is a fun subject in the first year at the IMS Milan. We observe — literally — the human body at tiny scales.
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The Neighborhood Around IMS Milan
Yesterday, I was craving pizza for lunch. So I went out searching for it, in the neighborhood around the building where our classes are held, here at the IMS at the University of Milan. What I found was a pleasant surprise.
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How We Learn Italian
The non-fluent speakers of Italian at the IMS, University of Milan, had our first language courses today. Here is how the program’s system works of teaching Italian to second-language students.
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A Look Inside LITA
The International Medical School of the University of Milan has its first and second-year courses at LITA, Italy’s Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Tecnologie Avanzate (Advanced Technology Interdisciplinary Laboratory). The facility permits us to have direct contact with international-level researchers in biomedical sciences.
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Biking to School (and Other Transport)
Among big Italian cities, Milan is particularly well-suited to biking. This is because Milan is flat, and has, relatively, orderly driving, and a high number of bike lanes. Sidewalk bicycling is also tolerated. So, I bike to school.
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On Language
One interesting feature of the international medical schools in Italy is that you have professors teaching, and students learning, in for what most of them is a second language: English. What is this like — at least here at the IMS at the University of Milan?
It is magnificent.
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Types of Teaching
Here at the International Medical School at the University of Milan, professors have different styles of teaching, all of which are suited to different subject areas.
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Where We Study, and Eat
The first and second-year students at the International Medical School at the University of Milan have classes and labs in a building called LITA, which stands for Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Tecnologie Avanzate (“Advanced Interdisciplinary Technology Laboratory”).
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How Exams Work
We learned today a bit about the structure of our exams, here at the International Medical School at the University of Milan.
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The Promise of Milan
The English-language international medical schools at the Italian public universities — and particularly, the University of Milan, the country’s largest research institution — are offering something revolutionary in medical education. They are making it possible for students from anywhere in the world, regardless of income, to attend a Western European-quality medical school, in the language in which most international research is conducted -– that is, English.
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IMS – Milan
Number of students 50/year
Percent international ~50%
Faculty:student ratio 4.5:1
Tuition (all students) 693 to 3,938 €/year
University of Milan
QS World University Ranking, clinical medicine #1 in Italy, #79 worldwide
European partner universities Amsterdam, Barcelona, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Geneva, Heidelberg, Helsinki, Leiden, KU Leuven, Imperial College London, University College London, Lund, Ludwig-Maximilian Munich, Oxford, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris-Sud, Strasbourg, Utrecht, Zurich
Number of students 61,000
Number of campuses 7
Number of teaching hospitals 9
Number of libraries 113
Year of foundation of main teaching hospital 1456
Milan’s Nobel Prize Winners
Ricardo Giacconi, Physics 2002 • Dario Fo, Economics 1997 • Renato Dulbecco, Physiology and Medicine 1975 • Eugenio Montale, Economics 1975 • Giuilo Natta, Chemistry 1963 • Salvatore Quasimodo, Economics 1959 • Ernesto Moneta, Peace 1907
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