Overview

• After meeting the Pontevedra medical college, Conselleiro Antonio Gómez Caamaño reiterated the Xunta’s goal of a single Santiago degree with practical teaching in Vigo and A Coruña delivered by units shared by the three universities.
• The Pontevedra college’s president now prioritizes keeping one degree and extending clinical training across fourth to sixth year, framing earlier calls for a Vigo faculty as a maximalist position if talks fail.
• Vigo’s health area says it has facilities and accredited teachers to host the second cycle but lacks roughly 18 permanent university-linked professor posts, proposing an initial launch using associated clinicians if needed.
• Sanidade confirmed this year’s sixth-year placements are capped by area — Vigo and A Coruña 100 each, Santiago 80, Lugo 30, Pontevedra 30, Ourense 20 and Ferrol 15 — a distribution that drew local criticism in Vigo.
• USC’s dean defended the current program’s quality, citing high completion rates and existing sixth-year rotations across Galicia, as the UVigo rector warned he will present unilateral options in October if no agreement is reached.