In Ravenna the “healthcare improves” with the Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery

Once fully operational, over 700 future doctors are expected. To better welcome them, the new spaces of the course at the Santa Maria delle Croci hospital were inaugurated. Flaminia Foundation among the promoters of the project

RAVENNA – “Where there is research there is better healthcare”. And among the three missions of the University, in addition to teaching and assistance, there is research. Within this axiom is the importance of having brought the degree course in Medicine and Surgery to Romagna, Ravenna and Forlì, which saw the inauguration of the new spaces, over 1,200 meters, on Saturday 11 May. squares in the former physiotherapy premises of the Santa Maria delle Croci hospital.
Among the protagonists of the project is theFlaminia Foundation, the body that “supports the needs and requirements of all 19 courses degree” from the Ravenna campus of the Alma Mater of Bologna. And the president Mirella Falconi of the Dire agency does not hide her satisfaction. The activation of Medicine in the city dates back to 2020 thanks to the contribution of the Municipality of Ravenna, of the Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna Foundation and of Flaminia which together with Fondazione del Monte di Bologna, Ior, Villa Maria group financially supported the project, while Ausl Romagna made the spaces available.

“SPACES INSIDE THE HOSPITAL FROM THE FIRST YEAR OF THE COURSE”
“From the beginning – explains Falconi – we tried to identify a space for students inside the hospital from the first course year” and first of all the teaching laboratories were created, which are fundamental for the first two years of study. Subsequently “we concentrated on a structure”, inaugurated on Saturday 11 May, to “welcome students with sufficient classrooms for all six years of the course”. In more detail, two classrooms with over 100 seats and two with around 50 seats, which together with the current Triossi lecture hall complete the offer of spaces for face-to-face lessons. Furthermore, three study rooms, large offices for teachers, rooms for administrative services and refreshments. In addition to the educational laboratories of approximately 500 square meters already in service for a few years. A construction site opened and closed in record time, nine months, adds the president, thanks to the “perfect synergy” with the healthcare company and the University.

“OVER 700 STUDENTS OFFERED, A ‘MANAGEABLE’ NUMBER AND ADVANTAGES FOR THE CITY”
The presence of Medicine in Ravenna, Falconi reiterates, “improves research, because if the hospital workers also they do it – he reasons – it is among the missions of the University”. Furthermore, “where young people attend internships, and have been welcomed with great enthusiasm by hospital doctors – the president comments – there is more incentive to keep up to date and train”. Precisely from an educational point of view, the “manageable” number of members allows us to follow the students with particular care and with a constant relationship. The benefits for the city and the community then extend to the economic side: when fully operational there will be over 700 students with compulsory attendance who will enliven the social life of Ravenna. Which in turn offers “a very large hospital where it is possible to choose all the specializations and the right size”: in fact it can be used on foot and by bicycle, continues the president of Flaminia, it offers a lively social life and is close to the sea.< /p>

“LONGER TIMES BUT MUCH AHEAD FOR STUDENTS ON SAN GIOVANNI ISLAND”

Elected in February 2021, Falconi will end her mandate as president in the first months of 2025 and the experience, according to an initial assessment, was “more than positive”, thanks to what was “sown” by her predecessor Lanfranco Gualtieri, “a great fortune”. The Foundation, he confirms, supports the needs of all Ravenna courses, “stimulating” the bodies responsible for satisfying them. Of course, he doesn’t hide, “there are problems but the reality of the facts, and the latest inauguration confirms this, is that if there is everyone’s commitment and will, we can achieve the objectives”. And it will also be done, he concludes, for the student residence on Isola San Giovanni in front of the station. In this case “the process is longer” and clashes with ministerial bureaucracies, but “we are getting closer to the operational phase”, while the Foundation’s commitment to tackling the bed emergency continues.