What are additional learning requirements and how are they satisfied?

For students enrolled in the 2021/22 academic year the deadline to satisfy the Additional Learning Requirements is postponed to 15 June 2023 (DR 07/03/22, Rep n. 316/2023, Prot n. 62200).

What are Additional Learning Requirements?

In order to enrol for the degree programme it is important that you have certain basic knowledge. The check of basic knowledge, detailed in the “How to enrol” page, seeks to ensure that you do not have significant weaknesses in particular subjects for which appropriate preparation is required in order to tackle the first/single-cycle degree programme successfully.

Even if the check identifies weaknesses in one or more areas, you can still enrol, but you will have to do some supplementary activities known as Additional Learning Requirements.

This restricted access degree programme checks the above requirements as part of the admission test. Accordingly, you might achieve the minimum score required for admission to the degree programme, but not achieve the minimum score required to demonstrate the necessary basic knowledge and, consequently, you will acquire some Additional Learning Requirements.

Additional Learning Requirements and Enrolment in years other than the first

If you have been assigned Additional Learning Requirements, in the year subsequent to matriculation you will be enrolled in:

the second year of the degree programme if you have already satisfied the Additional Learning Requirements;
the second year on a conditional basis until you have satisfied the Additional Learning Requirements and, in any case, until 31 March*: as soon as you have satisfied the Additional Learning Requirements, your enrolment will change from second year on a conditional basis to second year, but if you do not satisfy them by 31 March* you will be registered as a repeater of the first year.

Deadlines

The deadline for satisfying the Additional Learning Requirements is 31 March* of each year, which coincides with the end of the exam session for the academic year of matriculation.

*see note at the top of the page for a.y. 2021/22 deadlines.

How to satisfy the Additional Learning Requirements

The Additional Learning Requirement (ALR) for this Degree Programme is “Basic knowledge of chemistry and biochemistry, cellular molecular biology and genetics, medical physics”.
The ALR is regarded as being completed upon passing the following exams by the date set annually by the governing bodies of the University:
• CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY (I.C.);
• CELLULAR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS (I.C.);
• MEDICAL PHYSICS.
Students will be considered to have satisfied ALR requirements if all compulsory learning activities of Year 1 are passed. Year 1 optional learning activities do not count towards completion of the ALR.
Students who fail to complete their ALR by the date set annually by the governing bodies of the University* and published on the University website must enrol again in Year 1 as repeat students.

*see note at the top of the page for a.y. 2021/22 deadlines.