Statute of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
TITLE IV - External Relations
Art. 44 - Relations with the National Health Service and its Linking Structure
The collaboration between the University and the public health system, as well as with accredited private bodies operating in the health field, is coordinated by a connection structure called the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in which the Departments of the medical-surgical area and other educational facilities or relevant Departments are grouped. This collaboration is implemented through agreements, conventions and protocols that ensure the widest and most complete training of students in the Degree Programmes.
The University School referred to in paragraph 1, called Faculty, is the university structure of reference as regards relations with the National Health Service (SSN), referred to in Legislative Decree 21 December 1999, n. 517 and subsequent amendments and additions. It promotes and implements the system of functional and operational relations between the SSN facilities and the Departments connected in the School, ensuring the inseparability of the care functions of the professors of clinical subjects from those of teaching and research. To this end, it may manage the human, logistical, technological and financial resources possibly assigned by the Board of Directors and / or by the relevant Departments, to the extent of their respective competence, for the functions referred to in this article.
As part of the institutional relations with the SSN and with the Regional Health Service (SSR), the decision-making body of the Faculty referred to in paragraph 1 coordinates the didactic activities in relation to the assistance activity of university professors and researchers, taking into account the need to ensure the inseparability of welfare functions from teaching and research ones. In addition to the functions attributed to the Schools by art. 33 of this Statute, the decision-making body of the Faculty expresses a mandatory opinion on the establishment or suppression of complex facilities qualified as essential for the purposes of teaching and assistance programmes involving university professors.
The President of the Faculty referred to in paragraph 1 participates in the management of relations with the NHS, within the scope of the provisions of the legislation and specific agreements. The President of the Faculty, moreover, can be conferred powers by the Rector for specific functions that current provisions attribute to his figure.
The decision-making body of the University School referred to in paragraph 1, in compliance with the limits set out in art. 2, paragraph 2, letter f) is made up of:
a. the Directors of the Departments in the School;
b. nine representatives of the coordinators / presidents of degree and doctoral programmes, including the presidents of single-cycle degree programmes by right;
c. at least six representatives of the members of the Councils of the Departments linked in the School, of which at least three professors or researchers with assistance integration and at least three professors or researchers without contractual relationships with the Health Service;
d. an elective representation of students belonging to the School pursuant to art. 23 of this Statute;
e. three representatives of the Directors of Specialisation Schools (one from the medical area, one from the surgical area and one from the services area);
f. at least six representatives of the members of the councils of the Departments in the School, of which at least three professors or researchers with assistance integration and at least three professors or researchers without contractual relationships with the health service;
g. a representation of the administrative and technical staff assigned to the Departments of Medicine;
h. an elective representation of students belonging to the School, pursuant to art. 23 of this Statute.
The President of the Faculty referred to in paragraph 1 is elected by the members of the participating Department Councils and is appointed by Rector's Decree. The President remains in office for three years and is renewable consecutively only once.
