Overview
- The Consello para a Coordinación da Docencia Clínica meets Thursday at 9:00 in Santiago to consider ratifying the decentralization of Medicine’s clinical cycle, a step sources expect to be straightforward.
- If endorsed, the pact moves to the governing councils of the three universities, with USC’s vote viewed as the least certain due to internal objections from its Medicine faculty.
- UVigo has withdrawn its formal bid for its own Medicine degree after the pact but will keep an internal commission, led by professor África González, working on a contingency proposal.
- UDC will continue processing its separate Medicine degree as a safeguard, with rector Ricardo Cao citing a 2029 horizon and the possibility of private-sector entry as reasons to be prepared.
- Debate centers on assigning hospital complexes to the university of their territory and on a rule allowing UVigo and UDC to fill up to 59% of local Medicine teaching posts, while Vigo’s mayor calls the agreement harmful to the city.