(Sixth Estate) – Ravenna – 23 May 2024 – “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. The importance of having brought to Romagna lies within this axiomin Ravenna and Forlì, the degree course in Medicine and Surgery, which saw the inauguration of the new spaces on Saturday 11 May, over 1,200 square meters in the former physiotherapy premises of the Santa Maria delle Croce hospital.
Among the protagonists of the project is the Flaminia Foundation, the body that “supports the needs and needs of all 19 degree courses” of the Ravenna campus of the Alma Mater of Bologna. And the president Mirella Falconi at the Dire agency does not hide her satisfaction.
The activation of Medicine in the city dates back to 2020 thanks to the contribution of Municipality of Ravennafrom the Savings Bank Foundation of Ravenna and Flaminia that together with Monte di Bologna Foundation, Ior, Villa Maria group supported the project financially, while ASL Romagna made the spaces available.
“From the beginning,” he explains Falconi to the Dire agency – we tried to identify a space for students inside the hospital from the first year of the course” and first of all the educational 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 timenine months, adds the president, thanks to the “perfect synergy” with the healthcare company and the university.
The presence of Medicine in Ravenna, Falconi reiterates to the Dire agency, “improves research, because if hospital workers also 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 update 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”: it is accessible on foot and by bicycle, continues the president of Flaminia, offers a lively social life and is close to the sea.
Elected in February 2021, Falconi will end her mandate as president in the first months of 2025 and the experience traces a first budgetwas “more than positive”, thanks to what was “sown” by his 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, Mirella Falconi does not 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, it will be possible to achieve the objectives“. And it will be done, he concludes, also 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.
