L’Università Castrense nella formazione dei medici militari (1916-1917). Nel centenario della Grande Guerra il ricordo di una singolare sperimentazione didattica

Abstract

The Italian Army, that had few doctors, on the 1916/1917, invented a medical school to teach to the military students that wanted begin doctors. Medical school was a true degree course; the teachers were teacher at Italian university and they were enlisted in the Italian Army. The school was situated in San Giorgio di Nogaro, near the trenches, where there were a lot of Italian Red Cross hospitals, on the 1917, the medical school became a branch of Padua University. Giuseppe Tusini, who was surgeon and teacher at Modena University, was the director of the school. At the school had take part 366 students.