Overview

• UDC’s governing council has formally begun the internal approval process to establish a standalone Medicine degree for the 2027/28 academic year
• The programme is designed to start with around 50–60 students, according to Rector Ricardo Cao’s presentation on July 17
• Xunta de Galicia’s Education and Health ministries have condemned UDC’s unilateral move and insist on maintaining a single, decentralized medical faculty
• A working group of USC, UDC, UVigo and Sergas remains in talks to decentralize clinical training under the existing faculty framework
• Mayors of A Coruña and Vigo have publicly backed independent medical faculties and urged their universities to submit formal requests, while UVigo’s rector says he would seek a Vigo campus if degree authorizations reopen