UAH Faculty of Medicine leading the way in internship hours

Universidad de Alcalá Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences offers many more practical credits than the other centers evaluated by the CYD ranking.

The seventh edition of the ranking prepared by the CYD Foundation has evaluated several Spanish universities, in particular 76, according to 37 different indicators, among which is the one of practical credits. Universidad de Alcalá has been classified in this division as 'high performance' for offering its students a high number of hours of internship. In Medicine and Health Sciences degrees at UAH practices begin from the first grade level, unlike other schools, where students must wait for the second year to begin.

Other measures such as the number of places available to practice in hospitals and student-teacher ratios have also been taken into account for the evaluation. The last one indicates the proportion of number of pupils per teacher.

CYD Ranking is a tool that provides a vision of the diversity of university profiles. It allows to compare the quality of teaching and learning, to detect the strengths and weaknesses of each university. It also identifies the most efficient centers and those with the greatest potential for improvement. With their system of performance group indicators, CYD ranking make a multifaceted approach to the Spanish university system.

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