General conditions

• Bilateral agreement: a valid inter-institutional Erasmus+ agreement between your home university and the University of Antwerp or between your Faculty and ours is required. 
• Academic career: you should at least be in your third year of medical studies.  
• Language skills: you must have a good command of English, oral as well as written. Intensive Dutch language courses are strongly recommended if you wish to take courses that are taught in Dutch.
• Duration: one semester or a full academic year.

Study programme

We do not offer an English programme. Only a handful of courses of our Bachelor and Master programme are taught in English to accommodate international students ('green courses'). Besides these courses in English, we also offer courses with facilities for exchange students ('yellow courses'). These courses are taught in Dutch, but the lecturers provide facilities in English (e.g. study material, handbook, exam, …).

Have a look at the curriculum for exchange students. Read the guidelines carefully and use this curriculum to draft your study programme.

Mobility programme

Erasmus Student Mobility for Studies (SMS).  

Application procedure

All general information regarding the application procedure for exchange students is available on the webpages of our International Relations Office.

We have included here a simplified scheme of the application procedure (pdf – 108 kB) for incoming medical students who wish to take courses as part of the Erasmus Study programme.

Attention: As per the guidelines of the Erasmus programme, we don't accept paper or PDF versions of the Learning Agreement any more, but only work with the new Digital Learning Agreements. Find out more on how to prepare this Digital Learning Agreement.

Deadlines

• Nominations: 15 April 2024 (1st semester/full year) & 15 October 2024 (2nd semester)
• Applications: 15 May 2024 (1st semester/full year) & 1 November 2024 (2nd semester)

Need more information?  

Check our Frequently Asked Questions.

General conditions

• Academic career: you should at least be in your fourth year of medical studies.
• Language skills: you must have a good command of English, oral as well as written, and a thorough knowledge of medical English. English supervision can be provided, but contact with patients will be in Dutch most of the time. A basic knowledge of Dutch is therefore highly recommended. 
• Duration: a clinical traineeship always lasts minimum 4 weeks and is full-time (3 ECTS). The maximum duration is 12 weeks, consisting of 4 weeks in 3 different departments/disciplines. 

Mobility Programme

• Erasmus Student Mobility for Studies (SMS)
  • a valid inter-institutional Erasmus+ agreement between your home university and the University of Antwerp, or between your Faculty and ours is required. 
  • this option is only available if you combine a clinical traineeship with theoretical courses.  
• Erasmus Student Mobility for Placement (SMP) 
  • ​We do accept students from non-partner universities, but priority is always given to students from Erasmus+ partners. 
  • ≥ 2 months and maximum 3 months.

Due to limited amount of clinical traineeship positions we only process applications within the Erasmus programme. Applications of 'free movers' will not be processed. 

Application procedure

All general information regarding the application procedure for exchange students is available on the webpages of our International Relations Office. 

• Erasmus Student Mobility for Studies (SMS)
  • Same application procedure as described above for SMS, but note that there is only one deadline per year to apply for clinical traineeships. This deadline is applicable to students who come for the spring semester as well.    
  • In your Digital Learning Agreement you add the traineeship (e.g. "Traineeship Period 2 - April - InternalMedicine- 3 ECTS") as a separate course. 
• Erasmus Student Mobility for Placement (SMP) 
  • Please send following documents in 1 PDF file to international.office.medhealth@uantwerp.be before 30 April: 
    • CV; 
    • motivation letter with clear indication of preferred disciplines and periods (see Frequently Asked Questions for disciplines we offer and the periods); 
    • transcript of records
      
  • Have a look at the simplified application procedure (pdf - 140 kB) and note that there is only one deadline per academic year! 
  • Example of a Learning Agreement for Traineeships (pdf - 409 kB)
    

Deadlines

There is only one deadline per year to apply for clinical traineeships! 

• Nominations (SMS): 15 April (for traineeship during 1st semester/full year/2nd semester)
• Sending documents (SMP+SMS combination study and traineeship): 30 April (for traineeship during 1st semester/full year/2nd semester)
• Applications (SMP+SMS combination study and traineeship): 15 May (for traineeship during 1st semester/full year/2nd semester)

Before your arrival in Antwerp

Before you arrive in Antwerp you need to:

• Complete the Mensura questionnaire (.docx – 84 kB) and the UZA registration document (.docx – 56 kB).
• Send us your vaccination certificate with indication of the three dates of Hepatitis B vaccination, proof of full COVID-19 vaccination, the results of a recent Intradermo test (Mantoux or Quantiferon; can also be a RX Thorax; preferably less than 1 year old) and the definition of the titer Hep Bs Al >10 IU/L taken at minimum one month after the latest vaccination.
• We make an appointment with the internal occupational physician related to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences for a confirmation of your health. This medical screening is usually scheduled in the week before the start of your traineeship. Please take this into consideration when planning your arrival. Note that you will not be able to start your traineeship if you have not had your medical screening. 

Need more information? 

Check our Frequently Asked Questions. 

If you want to do a clinical traineeship in combination with your study programme, please contact our Internationalisation Officer well in advance and do not contact the hospital directly. When planning your study programme remember that traineeships are full-time (ca. 40 hours/week) and thus not compatible with theoretical courses (this includes Dutch courses as well). Only when there is a gap in your study programme you are allowed to do a traineeship.  

The combination of courses and a traineeship is only possible when you come via the Erasmus Student Mobility for Studies (SMS) programme. This means that there is a valid bilateral Erasmus+ agreement between your university and the UAntwerp and that you stay for minimum one semester.  

There is only one deadline for applications for clinical traineeships and that is 15 May.