Test di Medicina
Italy's national entrance test for medicine, dentistry and veterinary degrees. These are numero programmato (numerus clausus) courses: the state fixes how many places exist each year and only the top of the national ranking get in.
- Who sits it
- Students in Italy who want to study medicine, dentistry or veterinary science, all capped by numero programmato nazionale.
- When it happens
- After the diploma di maturità, usually sat in spring or autumn.
- Preparation time
- 6 to 12 months, often with a preparation course.
- How often
- Once or twice a year.
- Cost
- Registration around 100 EUR.
What the exam is like
Multiple-choice test on reading, logic, biology, chemistry, physics and maths.
Stage by stage
1
Register on the ministry portal
2
Sit the national test
3
National ranking published
4
Places assigned by ranking and university preference
How the mark is used
A single national ranking assigns every place; your score decides the city as well as the course.
Careers that need it
Dentist
Dentistry in Italy shares the numero programmato test with medicine.
RequiredGeneral Practitioner
Entry to the Italian medicine degree runs through this capped national test.
RequiredMedical Doctor
In Italy the medicine degree is numero programmato: the national test decides who gets a place.
RequiredSurgeon
Same capped entry test as every Italian medicine student, years before you specialise.
RequiredVeterinarian
Veterinary medicine is also numero programmato in Italy.