Overview
- The USC Faculty of Medicine reversed its earlier rejection and approved the pact by 64–21 (4 blank), and the USC governing council ratified the agreement along with a roadmap to be overseen by a monitoring commission starting Jan. 21.
- The plan decentralizes the second cycle so students receive theoretical and practical teaching in Santiago, A Coruña and Vigo through new teaching units while the USC faculty retains control of curriculum, quality and assessment.
- The agreement preserves a 50–50 staffing rule in the new units, protects current students from being forced to change campus, and keeps a unified teaching and evaluation framework across locations, with completion targeted for 2028–29.
- UDC has already approved the pact, UVigo convened an extraordinary governing council for Dec. 23 to vote, and final sign‑offs by the Galician education and health consellerías are still pending.
- UVigo says it will continue preparing a formal request for its own Medicine degree and maintains a withdrawal clause, while Vigo’s hospital reports 14 additional physicians accredited as university professors, bringing the total to 35 to support the rollout.