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Galician bodies oppose UDC’s bid for a new Medicine degree

Authorization of any new Medicine degree is exclusively the prerogative of the Xunta de Galicia’s university quality agency; local universities and councils have already voiced firm resistance.

Facultad de Medicina de Santiago.
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La facultad de Medicina de la USC, en una imagen de archivo

Overview

  • The Santiago City Council passed a unanimous declaration rejecting a new Medicine degree in the Galician university system and urged revision of the 2015 pact that granted USC exclusive authority.
  • UDC rector Ricardo Cao has indicated plans to seek a Medicine faculty, though the university has not yet submitted a formal proposal.
  • The Xunta de Galicia and its Agency for University Quality (Acsug) hold binding power to approve any new medical programme based on resources, labour demand and curricular overlap.
  • Universidad Intercontinental de la Empresa (UIE) confirmed it will not offer a Medicine degree and is instead focusing on Nursing, Biomedicine, Physiotherapy and related health sciences.
  • USC dean José Carreira Villamor highlighted that more than 70% of clinical teaching is already decentralized and current enrolment of 403 medical students meets projected needs.