[Medical students in the II Polish Corps 1941-1947]

After the end of the war in Italy on the 5th. May 1945, a number of Military Students Centres was established in Rome, Turin, Milan and Bologna, so that those with appropriate academic background who served in the II Polish Corps could continue with their higher education. The Medical Faculty of the University of Bologna offered places in 1946 to those who began medical studies before the war and those who wanted to start them. The author, a first year medical student, describes the year he spent in Bologna and subsequent difficulties in securing a place at a Medical School in England after demobilization there in 1947.