Programs & Careers

UniSR's nephrology residency programme trains specialists in one of the least familiar disciplines among medical students, and one of the least visible in the public imagination. Perhaps because the kidney is seen as a “silent” organ, and because, during medical school, the subject can feel dense...

The Health Informatics master's degree, a joint programme between Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (UniSR) and Politecnico di Milano, was designed to address a specific, measurable problem. According to Politecnico di Milano's Digital Health Observatory, 61% of medical specialists already use...

In surgical micro-endodontics, the operating microscope has become an everyday working tool. Micro-endodontics is the branch of endodontics that uses optical magnification, through the operating microscope, to work on root canals: structures that are often narrow, curved or calcified, and difficult...

Crime communication has always had a place in the media landscape: specialised magazines, TV shows, podcasts and live events dedicated to true crime are nothing new. Criminology itself has studied the public's fascination with crime for decades, recognising its strong narrative potential. The...

In the daily practice of an emergency department, urgent and emergency cases come down to one thing above all: teamwork. At UniSR's Emergency Medicine Residency Programme, directed by Prof. Paola Maffi, the first skill residents need to learn is exactly that: working alongside other professionals,...

Emergency medicine has its own vocabulary: precise and functional. Every term describes a process, a structure or a skill that can affect the clinical outcome of a treatment. Triage, boarding, time-critical care, POCUS and so on name some of the most important tools in an emergency physician's...

Italian hospitals are looking for more emergency physicians than the system trains each year. In November and December 2025 alone, Italian public hospital authorities published dozens of permanent staff-physician posts in this discipline in the Gazzetta Ufficiale (Italy's Official Gazette, where...

Emergency medicine has the second-highest number of residency positions of any medical specialty in Italy, and the Ministry of Health classifies it as a priority specialty for the national healthcare system. Yet in the 2025 national exam, 45% of those positions went unfilled. Of 976 training...