Pre-health · Summer 2028 pilot · Florence, Italy

Learn medicine where medicine was born.

A pre-health program run directly by an accredited Italian university: real university coursework, guided hospital experiences, and a named Italian physician as your mentor.

Start your application → How it works

Our campus, Florence

Why it works

Most Italy programs put you in a corner of a ward. We enrol you in a university.

Medical schools do not admit hours of passive observation. They admit a story: academic substance, sustained mentorship, and evidence you can work inside another healthcare culture.

70%

Academic core

Medical Italian and the Italian healthcare system for university credit, plus a graded anatomy and pharmacology survey taught by physicians - with the full syllabus your home institution needs for credit review.

20%

Guided hospital experiences

Small-group visits arranged with each partner hospital - from simulation centres and teaching facilities to structured observation, and ward observation where the hospital's medical direction authorises it.

10%

Physician mentorship

A named Italian MD follows you for the whole program: regular one-to-one meetings, CV review, and eligibility for a personal letter of recommendation.

Students at the entrance of the Unicollege Florence campus — The Florence campus entrance. You are not placed by a broker - you enrol here.

Study in Italy

Real classrooms, real credit - in a Renaissance city.

You are enrolled at a Ministry-recognised Italian university, not placed by a broker. Coursework, transcript and a named mentor: a semester that reads as substance on a medical-school application.

How it compares

University-direct, not broker-packaged.

	Typical shadowing program	Medical Immersion Italy
Who runs it	A third-party broker placing you in hospitals	An accredited Italian university with its own campuses
Academic record	Certificate of participation	University transcript, plus graded course syllabi for your credit review
Physician contact	Rotating host physicians, different every week	One named MD mentor for the full program
Letter of recommendation	Generic, if any	Personal letter from your mentor, earned over weeks
Your application story	"I watched procedures abroad"	"I studied medicine at an Italian university, with an Italian physician as my mentor"

Hospitals & mentors

Hospital experiences, done properly.

Every hospital component is agreed formally with the hosting institution and follows Italian patient-privacy and medical-direction rules. That is not a limitation - it is the reason a hospital can welcome you at all, and the reason your experience holds up in an interview.

Inside the hospital, in a white coat.

Small groups, always accompanied, in the settings each hosting hospital authorises:

Simulation centres, where you can put your hands on advanced manikins
Teaching facilities, clinical rounds and ward observation where the hospital agrees to it
A named Italian physician as your mentor for the whole program
Full insurance cover - infortuni, RC and health - arranged by the university

A note on honesty. We publish no inflated shadowing-hours claims and no stock-photo testimonials - the students you see are ours. Program details, including the exact shape of hospital experiences at each partner institution, are confirmed in writing before you pay anything.

Built for your application

Designed around the competencies medical schools assess.

Cultural awareness, communication across a language barrier, graded scientific coursework with full syllabi for your credit review: every part of the program maps to the AAMC premed competencies - interview material, not a gap in your story.

How applying works

Four steps. Everything in writing before you pay.

Request the brief

One email. You get the 2-page program brief, dates and fees.

Talk to us

A 20-minute call with the program team - not a salesperson.

Written offer

Your program, hospital component, mentor, fees, payment schedule and cancellation terms - confirmed in writing.

Confirm your place

Deposit via Flywire or bank transfer. Nothing is due before this step.

Locations & dates

Founding cohort, Summer 2028

Deliberately small. The first cohort gets the most mentor time and shapes the program with us.

Summer 2028

Florence · 4 weeks

Founding cohort, up to 4 students. Applications reviewed individually, housing in our own student residence included.

From 2029

Florence, with Milan as a second site

Wider intake as partnerships grow. Priority to partner-university applicants.

Unicollege students on the Florence campus — Unicollege students in Florence. The founding cohort studies alongside them, on the same campus.

Program fee. Founding-cohort places are deliberately affordable and all-inclusive except flights and meals. The full fee is stated in the program brief - together with a fixed payment schedule and the cancellation terms, before you commit.

For pre-health advisors and partner institutions.

We built this program to be verified, not just believed. Before your students commit, you get everything your credit-review and vetting process needs:

Full syllabi, contact hours and grading criteria for every course
Written confirmation of the hospital component, as agreed with each hosting institution
Founding-cohort terms in writing: fees, payment schedule, cancellation policy
A named program contact who answers within one business day

Unicollege presentation of partner universities in the USA and Canada — Presenting our North American university partnerships on campus.

Advisor partnership

A 20-minute call is enough to see whether this fits your pre-health pathway.

Talk to the program team →

Ready when you are

Request the 2-page program brief.

Leave your details and we reply with the full brief, dates and fees - within one business day.

Thank you - your request is in. The program brief is on its way: we reply within one business day.