The Medicine degree provides, in the 3rd term of the 5th year, the possibility of taking 16 ECTS of elective credits. These credits can consist of:

  • The elective subjects offered by the degree itself.
  • The mobility with Bilateral Agreements (Erasmus and others) established by UPF.
  • External Research Internship managed by the students themselves.

This text establishes the basis of the last modality. External Research Internship participation implies the knowledge and the acceptance of these basis.

  • Read these basis.
  • Find a doctor outside Catalonia that wants to guide you.

  • Make sure that the hospital or health center where you will do the internship admits UPF students and that they will sign an internship agreement with the University. You will have to request contact information from the Teaching Department or equivalent of the hospital or health center to be able to ensure this point.

    Important.- The hospitals and health centers of Madrid and Andalusia do not admit students who are not enrolled in the reference university of the hospital or health center.

  • Send to [email protected] a motivation letter and an acceptance letter.
  • Apply and complement the knowledges acquired with academic training.
  • Bring the student closer to the reality in one of professional fields where he/she can carry out his/her activity when he/she has graduated.
  • Develop skills that favour their incorporation to the job market.
 Important: these internship don't replace or can be validated for the Rotatory practices of sixth of Medicine

Internships can be carried out at any medical center (outpacient facility or hospital) with recognized solvency (check the section about assessment), outside Catalonia, provided that hospital or health center of destination admits UPF students and can sign an internship agreement with the University. In particular, it is recommended to stay outside Spain. The stays organized by AECS will be recognized if the requirements detailed in these basis are achieved.

It is compulsory that you have formalized an agreement for external academic internship signed by all three parties (university, student and hospital/health centre) before starting the internship stay.

For more information, visit the website: https://www.upf.edu/web/carreres-professionals/students-internships

Stays in outpatients facilities or hospitals where the student's family members work will not be accepted. If this was the case, even if it was evident after the stay was authorized or completed, the credit would not be recognized.

The stays can be developed in two modalities:

  1. A single 5 week period at full time during any summer after completing the second year, that it could be valued with 8 credits ECTS, then you will have to complement it with 8 ECTS of elective subjects. 
  2. A 10 week period at full time that it take place partially or completely the third term of the fifth year. It will be equivalent to 16 ECTS. Please note that taking external clinical  internships is not a reason for changes in the dates of the resit exams. For the medicine students enrolled in the 2020 curriculum (who began their studis in the 2019-20 academic year), acording to the curriculum, it will be equivalent to 14 elective credits, but to get the Erasmus grant at least they must be enrolled of 15 credits ECTS at the host university.
Important: Credits will not be recognized for old stays that have not previously get the authorization of credit recognition.

So that the Mobility Coordination could verify that the conditions to recognize credits for a future stay are  achieved, the student must submit the following documentation to [email protected]:

  • Motivation letter, where the studient will explain the reasons why he/she choose the internship that he/she propose and what he/he expect to obtain.
  • Acceptance letter from Teaching or Administration Department of the health center, stating :

         - Tutor name and email

         - Student acceptance

         - Stay dates

         - The tasks that the student will carry out

- Commitment to sign an agreement for external academic internship

- Name, surname and e-mail address of the person in the Administration or Teaching Department of the health centre who will process the agreement

 

The Mobility Coordinator will assess if the acceptance letter contains the requires information and, if it is necessary, he will request its rectification.

If the stay is in Europe, it is admissible and practical that the student submit the Training Agreement(Training agreement BH / Training Agreement Medicina) as an acceptance letter, because it already contains the necessary information and also it is the document that allow to apply the Erasmus Internship grant (see the grant section below).

The Mobility Coordinator will assess if the external internship proposals match with the conditions that are fixed in these basis for academic recognition. The students can appeal the Coordinator decision contacting with the Faculty deanship ([email protected])

So that the student can start the internship stay, according to state regulations on external academic internships in companies and institutions, and internship agreement must be processed between the University, the host institution and the student, before leaving, through the Campus Treball application. If the student  obtains an Erasmus Internship grant, he/she doesn't need to formalize an internship agreement (it does not apply for France, where an internship agreement must also be processed).

The student must be enrolled in at least one subject of the current academic course.

More information and instructions on how to formalise the internship agreement in link 1 and link 2.

February 28 of the year in which 3rd was coursing (Human Biology) or 5th (Medicine). However, the grants deadlines that can be accessed must be taken into account (see below). So, the students who can apply for MOBINT and Internship Erasmus grants must have in mind the deadline of these grants (you can check the application timetable for the Erasmus+ traineeship grant at this link), respectively.  Moreover, to apply for these grants it is important to indicate if the stays have academic recognition. It is the student responsability check the deadlines and conditions of these grants, because it may vary from year to year.

The submissiom of a report is an essential requirement to evaluate the internship. The student will provide a report detailing the tasks and achievements carried out during the internship period. The report must be submit to [email protected] within 30 days after the end of the internship.

 The assessment consist of:

  • 70%:  grade given by the external tutor according to the assessment document (spa or eng). The student must submit this document to [email protected] at the end of the stay. The Coordination reserves the right to request to the tutor the appropiate clarifications.

If the overall grade given by the tutor is less than 5, the credits will not be recognized. In the same way, if the tutor reports that the student has behaved clearly worse than required, or if he/she has repeatedly not going (for any cause) to the provided activities of the internship, the credits will not be recognized.

  • 30%:  when the student have returned, he/she may optionally request an interview with and specialist appointed by the committee, who will evaluate the knowledge and the acquired experience by the student. This part will take into acount the training quality of the center where the internships have taken place. If the interview is not requested, the maximum possible grade is 7.

The students who go to European centers outside Spain can access to Erasmus Internships grants, as long as the duraton is longer than two months and they meet all the requirements of the call.

For destinations around the world, you can apply for MOBINT grants. In this case, the student must request his/her mobiity credential to OMA.

It is the student responsability check the deadlines and conditions of these grants, which may vary from year to year.

Any student who goes abroad has the responsability to have his/her own Medical and public liability coverage, which is mandatory.

If you travel in Europe, make sure that you also have the European Health Insurance Card and check your health coverage in your destination country.

You can look up, among others, Oncampus insurance with discounts for students.

In case of suspension due to force majeure of an internship already validated for academic recognition, the student may submit mobility alternatives that may have not meet all the requirements set out in these basis. The Coordination will assess its adequacy. It is understood as force majeure catastrophic situations (natural disasters, pandemics, violent conflicts, among others), and not personal circumstances of the student..