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Q & A: MR AND MRS MEDICINE

Following up on our previous post, we thought that it would be a good idea to get a little bit of background information on who exactly we are. So Angelo and I agreed to do a little Question and Answer "session". We got these questions from friends and family who were...

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Scenes of Spring at IMS-Milan

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 something unique...

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Problem-Based Learning at IMS-Milan

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...

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A Visit to Humanitas

A Visit to Humanitas

Besides the six state universities that offer English-language MD programs in Italy, there are three private universities that do the same. (Or, to be specific, there are two private pariochial Roman Catholic universities -- the Cattolica in Rome and San Raffaele in...

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Our Furry Friend at IMS Milan

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...

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Milan to the Swiss Alps

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. On...

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Our First Real Look at Disease

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 gave us...

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Milan → New York → Milan

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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Studying the Heart

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

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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Milan IMS Convocation 2015

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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Costs and Fees in Pavia

Costs and Fees in Pavia

Pavia is relatively inexpensive northern city, with rent prices way below bigger neighboring cities like Milan, other costs of living are also moderate. The tuition fees are also relatively low and are kept the same for Italian, European and non-European students and...

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All About Textbooks

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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How We Learn Italian

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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First year students in Pavia – interview

First year students in Pavia – interview

An interview with four first-year students at the University of Pavia Camila Archela from Brazil, course: medicine in English Elena mitsulova from Bulgaria, course: biotechnology in Italian Raz Friedman from Israel, course: medicine in English Shay Davidovich from...

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A Look Inside LITA

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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On Language

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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Where We Study, and Eat

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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The Promise of Milan

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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Rome – Tor Vergata

Rome – Tor Vergata

The University of Rome II also known as University of Rome Tor Vergata is a public research university located in Rome, Italy, on of the most historical and beautiful cities of the western civilization. It was established in 1981 with the goal of providing high...

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Napoli – SUN

The Second University of Naples was established on May 12, 1989 after a ruling by the Presidente of the Council of Ministers to downsize the "Federico II" University of Naples. Its first Academic Year (in Italian) started on 1 November 1992. The English Language...

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Ask the Students Project

When looking for a University we usually rely on University Ranks or info on their websites which both give a poor picture of how our life there will look like. Why not ask the students themselves those important questions about their experience? In this project we...

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Milan – MIMED

Note: The info below was written by a student before Humanitas seperated from MIMED and became a private University in 2014. Now Humanitas University holds it's own IMAT exam for it's private medschool on a diffrent date than the national IMAT. They also have a...

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Rome – La Sapienza

Sapienza – Università di Roma was founded in 1303. Sapienza is present in all major international university rankings and among the best Italian universities. We are around 40 students in class. (officially, there are 43 places: while 33 are for Europeans and 10...

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First post of our blog

Dear current and prospective medstudents, My Name is Alex and I am a Foreign Medstudent in Pavia University in Italy, currently in my 5th year. Being involved in this field of English Medical studies from the day of its birth, here in Italy, I got asked a lot of...

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Admissions exam IMAT 2013

IMAT – which stands for “International Medical Admission Test”, or mistakenly called by some “Italian Medical Admission Test” is the (only) official exam you will need to pass on your way to studying medicine in English in Italy.

NEWS: The 2013 IMAT exam will be held in April 15 (Italian source: MIUR)

It is a multiple choice test in English which can be taken once a year at a fixed date. The Score of the exam will be used to rank the candidates and the best ranked are admitted to the course. The number of accepted candidates is limited by the number of places allocated to each Medical school.

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MEDschool Webinar Slide 1

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MEDschool Webinar Slide 1

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