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USC Medical Faculty Rejects Medicine Decentralization Deal, Putting Pact at Risk

Key votes at USC and UVigo now determine whether the decentralization pact survives.

José Tomé Roca, presidente de la Diputación de Lugo
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Imagen del Consello de Goberno de la UVigo celebrado ayer en el campus.
La fachada de la Facultad de Medicina de la USC, en una imagen de archivo

Overview

  • The USC Faculty of Medicine voted to oppose the preagreement, demanding a substantial rewrite across 13 points including the 50% staffing formula for Vigo and A Coruña and an explicit safeguard against creating new faculties without external evaluation.
  • The governing councils are next: USC will take up the deal on Friday and UVigo plans an extraordinary session Friday or Monday, after prior endorsements by the Clinical Teaching Council and ratification by UDC.
  • The draft sets full relocation of the second cycle to Vigo and A Coruña by the 2028–2029 academic year and delays any decision on new standalone faculties until 2029.
  • USC rector Antonio López voiced deep frustration over what he called a lost opportunity, as Galicia’s education chief Román Rodríguez urged heighted perspective and pointed to a monitoring commission to resolve technical issues.
  • Political pressure grew on multiple fronts, with Vigo’s plenary rejecting the pact and the Lugo provincial council formally requesting that HULA and the Lugo campus be included as a clinical teaching site.