Curricular internship activities, carried out by the Students in accordance with the provisions of the Study Plan, are compulsory and practical training activities that are an integral and necessary part of the Study Plan and encourage an initial encounter with the world of the profession. These activities may be carried out by the Students in the University laboratories, in the University Hospital and in the other Companies and Hospitals affiliated to the University of Cagliari. Part of these activities may be carried out by telematic means.

During clinical teaching, the Student is required to acquire specific skills in the field of internal medicine, general surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, as well as medical and surgical specialities. To this end, the student must carry out professional training activities by attending the healthcare facilities identified by the BoD and during the periods defined by the same, for a total number of at least 60 CFU.

Curricular traineeship activities constitute a form of tutorial teaching activity that involves the student in performing practical activities with a large degree of autonomy, simulating the activity performed at a professional level. At each stage of the placement the student is required to work through direct contact with a tutor-teacher. The teaching functions of the tutor-teacher to whom the students who carry out the curricular work placement activities are entrusted are the same as those envisaged for the tutorial teaching carried out as part of the teaching courses.

The clinical competence acquired through the curricular work placement activities is assessed as part of the mark for the final examination of the teaching course to which the respective work placement activities relate.

From A.Y. 2020-21, the Practical Appraisal Traineeships (pursuant to Ministerial Decree no. 58 of 9 May 2018 and subsequent Prime Ministerial and Ministerial Decrees) are included in the sixth year of the course in the second semester. They envisage 3 periods of attendance, by students supervised by one or more tutors, to be carried out in the Medical area, in the Surgical area and in the area of General Medicine (5 CFU/100 hours of attendance and 25 hours of individual reflection each).

The Practical Evaluative Traineeships (PTV) will lead the student to graduate with the professionalisation part carried out prior to graduation, thus shortening the habilitation pathway. The Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery allows, through the suitability achieved in the TPVs, the Licensing to practice as a Medical Surgeon (with consequent Registration with the Order of Surgeons and Dentists) and necessary for subsequent enrolment in a School of Specialisation or the Specific Training Course in General Medicine.