The opening of the 2023-2024 academic year of the Abat Oliba CEU University was pronounced this morning by the professor of physiology Arcadi Gual and his choice was not, as he himself explained, a coincidence but rather a causality. Gual is the new dean of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences that Abat Oliba has renamed based on the existing psychology studies and a master's degree in Dentistry, which are in the health branch. The objective of the San Pablo CEU Foundation is to integrate the degrees of Medicine, Nursing and Physiology, as well as the master's degrees, into this faculty.
The request to teach these studies is already on the table of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia (CIC), a body dependent on the Ministry of Research and Universities directed by Quim Nadal. However, the processing and the final offer to students can take several courses, especially those in Medicine that are linked to the approval of the Generalitat and the University Council. The degree is linked to certain internal medicine positions (MIR).
CEU, the non-profit university property, already has medical studies in Madrid and Valencia. A new university campus has recently opened in Seville.
This faculty would be the tenth that offers Medicine in Catalonia and, with the UIC, the second of an entirely private nature. The others are UB Clínic, UB Bellvitge, UAB, UPF, UdG, UdL and URV, in addition to the UVic and UOC, with a special economic regime.
The opening of the course – which was attended by Minister Quim Nadal, the president of the CEU group, Alfonso Bullón de Mendoza and the rector Rafael Rodríguez-Ponga – coincided with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of Abat Oliba as a university institution and the inauguration of a new 5,000 m2 building.
Councilor Quim Nadal and the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, attended the inauguration of the building this afternoon, accompanied by the deputy mayor, Mª Eugenia Gay.
The new construction is built next to the modernist headquarters of the university, located on Bellesguard Street and next to the Bellesguard Tower. It is adjacent to the Bonaesport club. It has 6 floors (3 underground) that will be used as classrooms, work and recreation rooms.
The initial project has undergone several changes with the impossibility of moving a century-old cedar tree to another location, which has modified the dimensions of the building, and the discovery of the archaeological remains of an oil mill dating from the 15th century that, according to the hypotheses of the archaeologists who have intervened, could belong to the agricultural property on which the royal quarters of Martí the Human were built between the years 1408 and 1410.
