Overview
- UDC’s Governing Council approved the updated agreement unanimously, endorsing the rectors’ plan with the Xunta to decentralize the Medicine degree.
- Final approval now depends on consello de goberno votes at UVigo on 28 November and at USC next week, the bodies with authority to ratify the deal.
- The roadmap keeps years 1–3 in Santiago and phases in years 4–6 across hospitals in A Coruña (Chuac) and Vigo (CHUVI) from 2026 to 2029, with about half of each cohort in USC and a quarter in each city.
- The agreement preserves safeguard clauses allowing UDC and UVigo to resume procedures for their own Medicine degree if timelines or conditions fail, or if favorable reports for private programs shift the landscape, according to UDC’s rector.
- USC’s Faculty of Medicine and student representatives oppose the document over representation, evaluation and student allocation, and Rector Antonio López met them seeking a position before the university’s vote.