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Abstract: THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN ROMA IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY Institutional relations between the Medical Collage of the University of Rome, the Roman hospitals and the city’s assistance organizations were consolidated between the last decades of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century. These changes brought professional figures with different types of training, into contact with each other. They included graduate philosopher-doctors, trustees of medical knowledge without experience and surgeons, who had a wealth of practical knowledge, but had no traditional cultural education or social recognition. In the Roman context, the papal Archiater played a very important political and scientific role. He directed the policy of the government which was often against the ideas of the University Medical College and the autonomous tendency of the hospitals. The increasingly frequent interactions of these entities brought to the delineation of a new scientific medical profession based on auctoritas and esperientia.