Strategie per far fronte al ritardo studentesco nel CLM in Medicina

The Presidents of the Italian Undergraduate Curricula in Medicine have faced the problem of remediation in a workshop held in Udine on the 22nd September 2017. Presidents have been subdivided into small groups, have been given detailed data about a hypothetic undergraduate curriculum and have been asked to devise remediation strategies adequate to the case study proposed. Data included general information about the School of Medicine, its structure and scientific excellences, and amount and composition of teaching staff. Information has been given also on the region where the School is placed, its population and social-economical parameters, and on the number and origin of medical students. Entity of students’ graduation delay has been detailed. Undergraduate curriculum has been illustrated giving detailed information about the examinations: their number, weight in credits, deployment through the curriculum, and number of students passing them in due time, with minimum, maximum and average score. Rules for students entry blocks for the following year and information about the consistency of tutoringcounselling services and of teachers continuous education strategies have been finally given. The Presidents of Undergraduate Curricula in Medicine have reached the conclusions that they should obtain the necessary detailed information about entity and causes of their students’ graduation delay. Remediation strategies should include active and peer-to-peer tutoring and forms of flexibility in assessment design and curriculum re-modelling.