Medicine and Surgery

For the 2025-2026 academic year, the Ministry has provided for an entry test with identical content in all locations (Ministerial Decree no. 599 dated August 7, 2025). 

The test consists of sixty questions with 5 (five) answer options, from which the candidate must select only one, discarding any incorrect, arbitrary or less probable conclusions, on the following subjects: reading comprehension and knowledge acquired during studies; logical reasoning and problem-solving; biology; chemistry; physics and mathematics. 

On the basis of the syllabuses in Annex A, which constitutes an integral part of Ministerial Decree no. 599/2025, the following questions shall be prepared:

• four (4) questions on reading comprehension and knowledge acquired during studies;
• five (5) on logical reasoning and problem-solving;
• twenty-three (23) on biology;
• fifteen (15) on chemistry;
• thirteen (13) on physics and mathematics.

Registration for the test will start on August 26, 2025, and close without exception at 3:00 p.m. (GMT+2) on September 9, 2025, according to the procedures set out in the "Test enrollment" section (not yet available) of this page.

The admission test will be held on September 17, 2025 at the Italian universities as well as at the foreign venues indicated in Table A annexed to Ministerial Decree no. 599/2025, which constitutes an integral part thereof. 

The number of available seats, for admission to the single-cycle master's degree program in Medicine and Surgery for A.Y. 2025/2026 is 75 for Italian citizens, citizens of the European Union and non-EU citizens treated as such and 45 for non-EU citizens living abroad.
The quotas are established by Table B annexed to Ministerial Decree no. 599/2025.

A single national ranking will be drawn up for the contingent of Italian citizens, EU citizens and Non-EU citizens treated as such under article 26 of Law no. 189/2002, according to the procedures in Annex 2. For Non-EU candidates living abroad, the ranking list is drawn up by the University at local level. 

Information about the Medicine and Surgery course (regulations, admission requirements, teaching plan, educational objectives, information and contacts, etc.) is available on the course website (https://corsi.unipr.it/en/cdlm-ms)

Venue of the admission test, for A.Y.2025-2026, will be the classrooms of the “Moruzzi” Building, of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, located inside the “Maggiore” hospital in Via Gramsci in Parma » directions via Google Maps https://goo.gl/maps/Lxf4P7vmq8CL7LCv5

The test is scheduled on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at the Italian universities as well as at the foreign venues indicated in Table A annexed to Ministerial Decree no.599/2025, which constitutes an integral part thereof, and will begin at 11:00 a.m. (Italian time) with adjustment of the aforementioned time to time zones in foreign countries where the admission test is held, as per Table A annexed to the Ministerial Decree 599/2025. 100 minutes are allotted for running the test.

Applicants are summoned at 8:30 a.m., to go through the individual recognition and test procedures, at “Moruzzi” Building entrance.

Please remember to have with you the following documents:

• ID card or equivalent identification document with photograph (valid);
• proof of payment of the admission fee.

Please note: Applicants whose admission fee payment has not been received and those who show up after the end time of the recognition procedures (10:30 a.m.) will not be allowed entry to the test venue.

The most recent updates regarding the venue and any possible changes in the convocation time, in consideration of the expected number of test applicants, will be posted on this page by September 12, 2025.