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Visiting Student Electives And Erasmus Exchanges

Electives for Visiting Students and Erasmus Exchanges at UCL Medical School

UCL Medical School is pleased to offer a visiting student electives programme to international undergraduate medical students and those from other UK medical schools who have completed a minimum of 3 years of a medical degree programme excluding an IBSc and including 12 months of clinical study.  These attachments are spent within the academic clinical divisions of the School of Life and Medical Sciences and in clinical units within the associated teaching hospitals: University College London Hospitals (WC1); The Royal Free Hospital (NW3); and The Whittington Hospital (N19).

Electives are offered for a minimum of 4 weeks and a maximum of 8 weeks during 6 x 8 week blocks starting on the 1st Monday in August and running throughout the year.  One elective period only may be spent at UCL.

All administration and correspondence is by email to: j.baburina@ucl.ac.uk.

Please note the deadline for Block 2a applications is 26th May 2012.Please note that there are currently no places available for January Block and only a few places left for November. Please could you check before sending your application form.

Please note that there are currently no places available for January Block and only a few places left for November. Please could you check before sending your application form.

• Administration and contacts
• Fees
• Dates and availability of electives
• Application process and timing
• Conditions
• Taking up your place
• Certification of satisfactory completion
• Self-organised electives and electives arranged through NHS Trusts
• Electives organised through UCL Faculty of Biomedical Sciences Divisions and Institutes
• Student Selected Components
• Application Form Section 1 - Personal details and electives choices Aug 2012 - July 2013
• Application Form Section 2 - Academic verification
• Application Form Section 3 - Health and Immunisation verification
• Elective Report Form

Please note that visiting electives in Neurology are not offered through the Medical School programme and are organised separately through the Education Unit at the Institute of Neurology. Students seeking an elective in Neurology are asked to email: j.reynolds@ion.ucl.ac.uk or call +44 20 3456 7890 for information.

A small number of UCL students either choose or are required by the Medical School to take their elective at a Trust affiliated with the Medical School.  To avoid confusion with Visiting Electives, UCL students are asked to contact a Consultant or Departmental Administrator directly themselves. Once the student has established whether they have been accepted, they should then email details to Yr5electives@ucl.ac.uk to ensure that their arrangements will satisfy MBBS course requirements to enter finals.

Erasmus Exchanges

We regret that UCL Medical School is unable to enter into Erasmus Exchange agreements as the Erasmus Scheme is based on reciprocal exchanges for a minimum period of 12 weeks.  In the undergraduate medical degree programme at UCL, students may only spend a maximum period of 8 weeks studying abroad and are not, therefore, able to partipate in Erasmus exchanges.

The School has one long-standing Erasmus exchange with La Salpetriere, Paris, France, but cannot offer more.  The agreement with La Salpetriere allows one student per academic session to join either Year 3 or Year 4 of the MBBS degree programme. Applicants must have completed 3 years of an undergraduate medical degree programme excluding an IBSc and including a minimum of 12 months’ clinical study.

Students who wish to apply should first seek advice from La Salpetriere and then read the "UCL Medical School guidelines" and return the completed application forms with all required documentation and documentary evidence in a single submission.

Incomplete applications cannot be considered.