Unip and Beneficence Portuguesa unite to offer undergraduate medicine

The Paulista University (Unip) and the Portuguese Beneficência de São Paulo prepare in silence the joint admission in the undergraduate medicine. A physical unit of the group would have already been chosen to shelter the new students. The course should be taught at the Unip unit in Vila Clementino, in São Paulo, where there is a currently underutilized building. Dividing the risk. The sum of efforts to offer medical course is an exit that universities have found to minimize the risk involved. At a high cost, the tuition fees for a bachelor's degree in private groups reach R $9000. Old Dream. The opening of a medical course at Unip is an ancient dream of the rector and founder of the University, João Carlos Di Gênio. After all, it was precisely the discipline that initially brought together the students Di Gênio and Drauzio Varella, in addition to doctors Roger Patti and Tadisi Itto, to found in 1965 the preparatory for vestibulands of medicine, an institution that was subsequently enlarged in other Creating a teaching conglomerate. At least since 2007, Unip has the authorization of the Ministry of Education to offer the course. Sought, Unip and Portuguese beneficence did not comment.