UniCamillus Admission Test 2027: Complete Preparation Guide

• Constraint satisfaction: scheduling, seating and assignment grids, elimination tables
• Decision rules and procedures: executing a flowchart, protocol or eligibility criteria in stated order
• Propositional logic: necessary conclusions, conditionals and contrapositives, necessary vs. sufficient conditions
• Short reading comprehension: main idea, author's stance, inference limited to the passage
• Quantitative reasoning: ratios, percentages, rates and unit conversion used as decision tools

• The chemistry of living things: water, organic macromolecules, enzymes
• The cell as the basis of life: prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, membrane transport, mitosis and meiosis
• Bioenergetics: ATP, redox reactions, photosynthesis, glycolysis, respiration, fermentation
• Reproduction and heredity: Mendel's laws, DNA structure and protein synthesis, inheritance patterns, recombinant DNA
• Heredity and environment: mutations, natural and artificial selection, evolutionary theory
• Anatomy and physiology: tissues, organ systems and their interactions, homeostasis

• Matter and atomic structure: states of matter, perfect gas laws, atomic and mass number, electron configuration
• The periodic table and chemical bonding: periodic trends, ionic/covalent/metallic bonds, nomenclature of oxides, hydroxides, acids and salts
• Chemical reactions and stoichiometry: the mole concept, balancing equations, reaction types
• Solutions, kinetics and equilibrium: concentration, dilution, aqueous equilibrium, catalysis
• Acids, bases and redox: pH, hydrolysis, buffers, oxidation number, balancing redox reactions
• Organic chemistry: isomerism, hydrocarbons, functional groups, basic nomenclature

• Measurements and units: SI and CGS systems, fundamental and derived quantities
• Kinematics: uniform and accelerated motion, free fall, circular and harmonic motion
• Dynamics, work and energy: Newton's laws, momentum, kinetic and potential energy, conservation of energy
• Fluid mechanics: pressure, Stevin's law, Pascal's principle, Archimedes' principle
• Thermology and thermodynamics: calorimetry, changes of state, the laws of thermodynamics
• Electrostatics and electrodynamics: Coulomb's law, circuits, Ohm's law, electromagnetic induction

Non-specialist knowledge at the level of an informed newspaper reader, not clinical detail.

• Water, sanitation and disease: the global water crisis, waterborne epidemics, hygiene as a health determinant
• Major infectious diseases: tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, child malnutrition
• Humanitarian organisations: the WHO and UN agencies, the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement, Médecins Sans Frontières
• Health systems and global goals: universal health coverage, primary health care, the health-related Sustainable Development Goals
• Conflict, displacement and climate: forced displacement, food insecurity, the links between climate, conflict and hunger
• Eminent figures in global health: historical and contemporary contributors to humanitarian medicine
• The UniCamillus mission and values: Camillo de Lellis and the university's founding commitment to training doctors for underserved regions

It's the test Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences (UniCamillus) uses to select candidates for its English-taught Medicine and Surgery degree in Rome: 60 multiple-choice questions across five sections, in one continuous 60-minute sitting.

No. The IMAT is the national test used by Italian public universities; UniCamillus sets and administers its own test under its own Rector's Decree, with a different structure, option count and scoring.

Online, from home, remotely proctored by Selexi using a Chrome browser plugin plus a phone or tablet camera. No calculator is permitted, though two sheets of blank paper and a pen are allowed.

A 5-question section unique to UniCamillus, covering global health, humanitarian organisations (the WHO, UNICEF, the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières) and the university's own founding mission. It's also the first tiebreaker used when two candidates' total scores are equal, ahead of age, so it carries more weight than its size suggests.

+1.5 points for a correct answer, −0.25 for an incorrect one, 0 for a blank, out of a maximum 90. A genuinely random guess works out to a small positive expected value (+0.1 points) rather than being exactly neutral, but eliminating even one implausible option before answering raises that further, and it's never better than actually knowing the answer.

Yes: two separate thresholds. Score below 9 points overall and you're not eligible for a place at all, regardless of rank. Separately, score below 9 out of 15 in Biology, Chemistry or Physics individually, and you're assigned an additional learning requirement in that subject after enrolling, even if your overall score is strong.

Yes. The English course is taught only in Rome; the Italian course is taught at Venice Mestre, Rome and Cefalù, and its candidates sit the same test, in Italian, and are ranked for the campuses they chose when they registered. Format, syllabus, scoring and dates here hold for both courses; where places or fees differ, the guide says which course it means.

For 2026/27 the English course's first call offered 425 places to Italian and EU candidates, and the Italian course's 560 (320 at Venice Mestre, 160 in Rome, 80 in Cefalù); each later round offered what was left, and the November round has 66 and 334. Non-EU candidates resident abroad are admitted to the English course under a separate call with a written reasoning test and an online oral. UniCamillus doesn't publish an official acceptance rate or applicant numbers.

Within the EU, yes: automatically, as a standard Italian medical degree (LM-41). Italy's medical schools, UniCamillus included, became eligible for ECFMG certification once the national system gained WFME accreditation in 2024, opening the standard USMLE/ECFMG path toward US practice. For the UK, the Medical Act 1983 (sections 21B and 21C, as in force on 12 October 2026) spares holders of an Italian medical degree the knowledge test other international graduates take through PLAB/UKMLA, but the UK's list pairs the laurea with the Diploma di abilitazione all'esercizio della medicina e chirurgia, which Italy stopped issuing in March 2020, when the practical training moved inside the degree. The GMC's Italy page therefore offers graduates since then provisional registration on the laurea, for a UK Foundation Year 1 post, and asks for evidence of supervised practice, such as a 12-month internship, for full registration. Evidence of English is still required, and the rule is UK policy that can change.

Yes. The IvyTest simulator runs UniCamillus-format practice (60 questions, five options, the real +1.5/−0.25/0 scoring) in timed, tutor and review modes, with a free demo of the simulator available without payment.

No. UniCamillus publishes no past papers and no official sample test, in PDF or otherwise. What it does publish is the call itself, a PDF free to download from the Admission Calls page on www.unicamillus.org, whose Annex A is the official syllabus for each section. The practice questions on this page and IvyTest's simulator are IvyTest's own, written to that syllabus and the real format.

The next sitting is on 19 November 2026, at home: the last round for a 2026/27 place, with 66 places left. Registration closes at 13:00 on 16 November 2026, results are on the university's website by 25 November and admitted candidates enrol by 2 December. The 2027/28 calls are not out yet; in 2026/27 the first test was on 19 March 2026.

Medicine and Surgery in English costs €21,000 a year for 2026/27, in both the EU and the non-EU calls. Candidates admitted in the November round pay €2,000 and €6,000 at enrolment, then €6,500 by 15 January 2027 and €6,500 by 28 February 2027. Applying costs €180. The Italian-taught programme costs €16,500 in the first year and €18,000 a year from the second year, and each campus's tuition fees regulations are on the Annual Tuition Fees page.

Medicine and Surgery is a six-year programme, and its study plan for each year of enrolment is on the course page, with every course's syllabus linked from it. Year 1 covers chemistry and introductory biochemistry, biology and genetics, physics and statistics, histology and embryology, and human anatomy. Laboratory Medicine is a 7-credit course in year 3. Internships total 60 credits, and the degree ends with a State examination built on a dissertation.

For first-year students, first-semester lectures run from 2 November 2026 to 31 January 2027, and the second semester from 1 March to 31 May 2027. Exam sessions run 1 to 27 February 2027 and 1 June to 31 July 2027, with extraordinary sessions in April, September and December. Christmas break is 23 December 2026 to 6 January 2027.

Yes, under a separate call: Medicine and Surgery in Italian, at the Venice Mestre, Rome and Cefalù campuses, has its own admission test (the test d'ingresso), with the same 60 questions in 60 minutes, sections and scoring, set in Italian. Its November round (Rector's Decree No. 640) has 334 places (213 at Venice Mestre, 115 in Rome, 6 in Cefalù) and the same 19 November 2026 test date. This guide and its practice paper cover it too; the practice paper's Italian page sets the questions in Italian.

Yes: r/unicamillus, where UniCamillus University applicants ask each other about the UniCamillus Admission Test and share how their preparation is going. It is run by the IvyTest team. Dates, rules and results come only from the university's own pages, listed under Official sources on this page.

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