Through the undertaking of residencies in national and foreign centres as part of the Biomedical Research Placements activity, which is aimed at attaining results that can be used for the master’s degree final project (TFM). Roughly 80% of the students on the Master undertake experience-based projects as external placements in centres outside of our university (national or foreign). In these cases there is not a constant supply of research groups that accept students, and the external groups that the students can join vary from one year to the next.

Collaborating centres or laboratories

Throughout the years the Master in BIOMED has been running, agreements have been reached with numerous institutions, including other Spanish institutions like CRG, the IMIM, the CMRB, the IRB, the Bellvitge Research Institute (IDIBELL, Barcelona), Hospital Clínico in Barcelona, the Global Health Institute of Barcelona (ISGlobal), or the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and various foreign centres like the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), various centres in the United Kingdom (Imperial College London, University of Oxford, University College London), and research institutions in the US (the Scripps Institute, the Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology).

In all cases, regardless of the centre where the placement is undertaken, the supervision and tutorial procedures by the student supervisors (external and DCEXS tutor) follow a common set of regulations for all students. The rules for the writing, format and size of the TFM are also common to all students, following the guidelines for the BIOMED master of which students are informed, and the presentation, defence and assessment of the TFM is carried out in the DCEXS.

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Rules