Education

Outgoing students

The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) believes in giving all her students the opportunity to go abroad. There are several options during the bachelor or master phase.

Bachelor

Biomedical Sciences

  • Year 2, semester 1 or 2; courses at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
  • Year 3, semester 1; half minors (Cuba, UK, Indonesia, France and Scotland) or find something yourself 
  • Research internship year 3;  16 weeks: student research project in Leuven, Belgium or Stockholm, Sweden for example

Medicine

  • Half minors in year 3; (Cuba, UK, Indonesia, France, Scotland and Finland) or find something yourself 

Bachelor

Biomedical Sciences

  • Year 2, semester 1 or 2; courses at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
  • Year 3, semester 1; half minors (Cuba, UK, Indonesia, France and Scotland) or find something yourself 
  • Research internship year 3;  16 weeks: student research project in Leuven, Belgium or Stockholm, Sweden for example

Medicine

  • Half minors in year 3; (Cuba, UK, Indonesia, France, Scotland and Finland) or find something yourself 

Master

Biomedical Sciences

  • Frontiers of Science (FOS) courses at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and Heidelberg University, Germany
  • Research: Junior Research Project I or II; 6 to 9 months

Medicine 

  • Research: internship (Dutch: wetenschapsstage) 18 to 28 weeks in year 1 or 3 of the master
  • Clinical Rotations
  • Elective area year 6 (10 weeks)

Health, Ageing and Society

  • Research: internship (10 weeks)

Pharmacy

  • Elective area (10 weeks)
  • Research: internship (21 weeks)

Technical Medicine

  • Elective area
  • Research: internship

More information for outgoing students

Read more about the opportunities for LUMC students to do their studies or part of their studies abroad.