Overview

• The panel, led by UVigo rector Manuel Reigosa, meets Monday in A Coruña with nine representatives from the three universities, the regional health service and key hospital complexes.
• Mandated to refine the 2015 agreement, the group will focus on decentralizing Clinical Practice III across Galicia’s major hospitals.
• USC’s new dean, José Martín Carreira Villamor, has pledged to maintain a single medical faculty, warning that additional faculties or interuniversity degrees would weaken teaching quality.
• Health Minister Antonio Gómez Caamaño has endorsed Villamor’s role in the working group and expressed confidence he will serve as Galicia’s sole dean of Medicine this term.
• University and healthcare leaders face pressure to reconcile UDC and UVigo’s calls for expanded programs with the goal of preserving excellence and cohesion in Galician medical education.