Overview
- After Thursday’s formal ratification by the Consello for Clinical Teaching Coordination, the University of A Coruña’s governing council approved the pact on Friday with a unanimous vote.
- The plan shifts theoretical and practical instruction for years 4–6 to Vigo and A Coruña over three years, targeting full delivery by the 2028–2029 academic cycle.
- UDC expects to host about 100 students within roughly ten months at CHUAC, with mixed teaching units staffed 50% by UDC (or UVigo) and 50% by USC, and CHUAC remaining linked to UDC.
- The agreement creates a monitoring commission and includes a safeguard that allows UDC or UVigo to pursue their own Medicine degree if the decentralization timetable or terms are breached; UVigo is maintaining an internal ‘plan B’.
- Internal resistance persists at USC’s Faculty of Medicine, which meets Monday to debate the deal, and Vigo’s mayor publicly opposes the arrangement, while UVigo and USC governing council votes are still pending.