It ruined my life, thank goodness I’m motivated to graduate because otherwise I would have already run away. I study Medicine and Surgery and the internships are carried out badly, there is no desire to teach students but only to exercise an abuse of power against them.

Overall,UNIPA is a good university; the teaching is excellent, and the professors and doctors are outstanding. It offers a good scholarship for international students that includes housing, food and a stipend. Regarding my degree course (neuroscience), the department is well organized and have good research in this field. But it lacks a few things i.e, there are very few courses for international students. Due to the lack of organization within the secretariat, hospital placements are not properly managed.

I attend the second year, namely the course of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Palermo. From my experience up to now I believe that university professors are very prepared, skilled in teaching, available, in particular I think there is a great deal of attention on the theory, but references to clinical practice and biomedical research are never lacking since first years . Overall, therefore, I feel satisfied with the teaching. I believe instead that the organization on the bureaucratic level of the traineeships is inappropriate, as they are not spread throughout the year, sometimes they are concentrated precisely in the period of the exams and also once the collocations are organized and the other information is given with very little notice . More bureaucratic organization would be needed, but the teachers’ explanations are clear, interesting, current and in-depth.

Unipa is an acceptable university on the whole, teaching is excellent, professors and doctors really good. The defect lies in the lack of organization of the secretariat, so that hospital placements are not managed optimally.

I am a student of the degree course in Medicine and Surgery, 4 years. All in all, my personal approach has been positive. The teachers are very prepared, in fact from the didactic point of view I cannot absolutely complain. What I can talk about are the organization of lessons, exams and training. This university is still behind other universities, but I notice a certain desire for evolution, change and improvement. But it is not an immediate process, but a gradual one. Some figures are emerging as those of intermediaries between students and managers. But from an infrastructure point of view there is a lot to be reviewed. It is a topic too big and difficult to be realized immediately. I hope that in 5 years time there will be a clear improvement to guarantee to all the people who work for the university, to all the students to better enjoy this life experience that will make each of us a professional worker.