Dental Hygiene

The opening of the ballot boxes containing the personal data forms of the candidates for the admission test to the Degree Courses in Health Professions, both in Italian and English, is scheduled for Thursday, September 12, 2024, in Room 'BLUE' 'C' of the Biotechnological Building, Via Volturno 39, Parma.

The ballot boxes will remain closed and sealed until that time.

The procedure will include verifying the seals, opening the ballot boxes, counting the forms contained in each box, and checking their accuracy.

For the 2024-2025 academic year, the Ministry has provided for an entry test (see Ministerial Decree No. 1116/2024 and annexed documents).

The test consists of 60 (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 in 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. 1116/2024, the following questions shall be prepared:

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

The test is scheduled for September 9, 2024 and it will begin at 11 a.m. (Italian time). 100 minutes are allotted for running the test.

The number of available seats, for admission to the degree program in Dental Hygiene for A.Y. 2024/2025 is 12 for Italian citizens, citizens of the European Union and non-EU citizens treated as such and 8 for non-EU citizens living abroad.
The quotas are established by Ministerial Decree No. 1119/2024.

University draws up two separate rankings: one for candidates from EU countries and non-EU countries (art. 39 Legislative Decree No. 286/1998), and the other reserved for candidates from non-EU countries residing abroad.

Information about the Dental Hygiene course (regulations, admission requirements, teaching plan, educational objectives, information and contacts, etc.) is available on the course website (https://corsi.unipr.it/en/cdl-dh)

Applications for the admission test must be submitted exclusively through the online procedure. Applications sent by any other way (e.g., by regular mail or certified e-mail) will not be accepted.

Registration for the test will start at 12:00 p.m. (noon) on August 6, 2024, and close without exception at 12:00 p.m. (noon) (GMT+2) on August 27, 2024.
The application will be considered valid only if the test application fee is submitted by August 27, 2024.
The test application fee will not be refunded for any reason.
If the above payment is not submitted, the applicant will not be allowed to take the test.

In order to apply, you must first register at the ESSE3 website on the University portal and then enroll for the test via your private area (see Notice of Admission, page 4, "Iscrizione alla prova di ammissione").

While enrolling for the test, there will be two competitions available for admission to the health professions: one reserved for Italian citizens, EU citizens and students with non-EU citizenship who are equated (according to Legislative Decree No. 286/1998, Art.39); the other reserved for foreigners living abroad or otherwise not equated. The candidate should ascertain which contingent he/she belongs to and proceed to register for the corresponding competition (see Notice of Admission, page 6, "Determinazione del contingente di appartenenza").

All those enrolled in the Dental Hygiene admission test must provide, ahead of the test, a certification of English language proficiency of B2 CEFR level or higher. 

For this purpose, Italian or EU candidates may also use the Invalsi certificate. 

The certification should be sent by 2024, Sept. 02 to segreteria.medicina@unipr.it

Venue of the admission test, for A.Y.2024-2025, will be classroom #5 in 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 will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 9, 2024, and a time of 100 minutes is allotted for its completion, except for those who are entitled to additional time (Ministerial Decree no. 1116/2024).

Applicants are summoned at 8:00 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 2, 2024.

Thirty (30) minutes before the start of the test, the Classroom Committee will give out to the applicants an information sheet on how to fill out the answer form.

Each applicant will receive an envelope, containing the test questions, a personal information form and an answer form. In addition, participants will be given a pen provided by the University for filling out the answer form.

Applicants should mark their chosen answer by placing an X mark in the corresponding box (drawing it in the answer square). It is allowed to change once and only once the answer, if any, already given to a question, by completely blacking out the box previously marked with an X sign and choosing another one. Please note, there must be an X mark in only one of the five boxes for the corresponding score to be awarded.

At the end of the test, each applicant should go to the designated space, equipped with the appropriate pen, where he/she will find a box for inserting the personal information form (on one side of the ballot box there's its facsimile), and a several pairs of barcode stickers. Each applicant will have to choose a pair of identical sticky labels.

Applicant should apply one sticky label on the answer form and one on the personal information form. He/she should check that the label codes of the chosen pair are the same on the answer form and on the personal information form. Then he/she will insert the personal information form into the aforesaid ballot box.

After this step, the applicant should go to the committee's station where he/she will insert the answer form into the ballot box provided there, being sure that the side of the form showing the given answers, is face down.

The applicant's erroneous insertion of the answer form into the personal information forms ballot box will result in the impossibility of its subsequent correction, resulting in the candidate's final exclusion from the ranking list.

Any applicant's test will be nullified in the event of:

1. holding of the test in a classroom other than the one in whose classroom lists the candidate is enrolled, unless the change has been authorized by the Examination Board and so noted in the official record;
2. introduction as well as use by the applicant of mobile phones, PDAs, smartphones, smartwatch tablets, earphones, webcams or other similar devices, as well as manuals, textbooks, handwritten notes and reference supplies;
3. signature or markings of the applicant or a member of the Board on the answer form (both front and back);
4. interaction between applicants and/or attempts to copy and/or exchange any materials, in the possession of the applicants, including personal information form and/or answer forms.
5. use by applicants of pens, pencils or any other suitable writing tool in order to make changes, additions and/or corrections to the answer form during the operations of inserting the personal information form and/or the answer form inside the ballot boxes used for those purposes.

The nullification of the test is decided by the Board. In all the above cases, the nullified test will not be evaluated.