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Tutoring, orientation and support activities are carried out on four different, coordinated levels:

1. University Orientation and Tutoring Center;
2. PROMISE Department;
3. Degree Course in Nursing;
4. Different abilities (for students with DSA and disabilities).

 

 

1. University Orientation and Tutoring Center (COT)

It is a service aimed at students that supervises and manages all tutoring or orientation activities of the entire University of Palermo, of the departments and of the individual study courses, including that of Nursing. Represents

The COT's initiatives are aimed at:

Preparation for entrance tests;

• To carry out welcome interviews;
• To provide orientation and consultancy on the study path;
• To give support to foreign students;
• To give psychological support to those who request it.

Contacts

Orientation and Reception Service
Tel. 091 23863206 e-mail: orientation@unipa.it

Orientation and Reception Desk - Foreign Students
Tel. 091 23865505 e-mail:studentistranieri.cot@unipa.it

 

2. PROMISE Department

Our department adheres to and supports a series of orientation projects for 4th and 5th grade high school students, such as:

• the Open Day, as the day in which the degree courses of the health professions relating to the department itself are described.
• a series of Paths for Transversal Skills and Orientation (in short PCTO) (PNRR Orientation 2026), in accordance with the MUR directives (DM 934 of 08/03/2022) starting in the year 2022-2023 with the involvement of teachers of various degree courses, including Nursing and various upper secondary schools in Palermo and the province. In some cases the project also involved the Order of Nursing Professions of Palermo through its representatives. Other similar activities also involve the offices of Agrigento, Caltanissetta and Trapani, where there are branch offices in Palermo.

 

3. The Degree Course in Nursing

The tutoring activity is carried out by all I and II level professors, researchers and contract teachers of the Course. The CdS has joined, supports and implements various tutorial and orientation activities:

• Tutoring of Professionalising Activities. The course of studies includes a series of tutorial figures, for all three years of the course, aimed at orienting, guiding and supporting the student in the training path. The various tutorial figures are healthcare workers with a nurse profile, who have been trained and selected through a public tender, who in the locations where the professionalizing activities of a technical, relational, educational nature take place, accompany, support and influence the clinical learning of the Nursing students, both in real and simulated contexts. The tutorial figures are directed by the Director of Professionalising Activities and supported by the Professionalising Activities Manager of each location, and represent tutorial figures themselves, together with the clinical and teaching tutors.
• Validations and orientation of incoming careers. The Validation Commission supports and guides students in the validation, recognition, transfer and career shortening paths.
• Guidance for choosing your degree thesis. The degree thesis is governed by the Degree Thesis or Short Thesis Guidelines of the Degree Course. The student must submit an application to a Professor pertaining to the Degree Course, who assumes the role of supervisor, at the beginning of the last year of the course and in any case at least 4-6 months before the presumable graduation session. The supervisor of the short essay must be a teacher, including a contract one, belonging to the Council of the course of study in which the student is enrolled. The teacher has the faculty to identify the topic, the co-supervisor (not essential) and the nature/methodology of the paper (compilation or experimental). It is advisable that the student, before choosing the supervisor, has taken the exam or followed the course with the chosen teacher.
• Tutoring for the so-called "hard subjects" and Additional Educational Obligations (OFA). The School of Medicine and Surgery offers students of the health professions degree courses specific tutoring through teaching tutors to support students in difficulty in overcoming some so-called stumbling blocks of basic disciplines. It also organizes the educational activities necessary to complete the recovery of the OFA (online or in person) and the possibility of taking the related tests.

 

 

4. Different Skills

Information section on the different skills of the Promise Department.