Overview
- Leaders of the three Galician universities announced a pre-agreement that will be sent to a working group within a week and later requires approval by each university’s governing council.
- Under the plan, the Universidade de Santiago keeps the sole Faculty of Medicine, while second-cycle teaching in A Coruña and Vigo will be delivered at least 50% by faculty from those universities.
- The agreement foresees creating teaching units in A Coruña and Vigo and establishing a monitoring commission to ensure compliance.
- Implementation is slated to roll out over three years beginning next academic year, expanding both theoretical and clinical instruction outside Santiago.
- The Universidade da Coruña previously delayed its Medicine verification dossier until 2027 to seek consensus, as A Coruña’s mayor presses for an independent faculty and Santiago’s mayor backs the single-faculty model with decentralized teaching.