Exchange students - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Courses for Exchange Students in Medicine and Health Sciences
NTNU is part of numerous student exchange and placement programmes. The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences participates in the Erasmus+ programme and NORDPLUS. There are also exchange agreements with universities in many other countries.
Courses taught in English
Course |
Credits |
Semester |
---|---|---|
MD4041 Medicine semester IID for International Students ('English Semester') |
30.0 |
Autumn or Spring |
3.0 | Autumn or Spring | |
6.0 | Autumn or Spring | |
12.0 | Autumn or Spring | |
18.0 | Autumn or Spring | |
24.0 | Autumn or Spring |
The 7th semester (4th year) of the Medical Doctor Programme is taught in English, and is open for qualified exchange students.
Please note that no incoming exchange students will be given admission to courses held in the autumn of 2021 and spring 2022.
The main clinical subjects of this semester will be obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics,infectious medicine, endocrinology, kidneys and urinary system. The subjects are taught primarily through three types of learning activities:
Lectures
The first week will consist of introductory lectures in all subjects. Each subsequent week will cover separate subjects with corresponding lectures. There will be lectures in the following subjects; endocrinology, breast- and endocrine surgery, radiology/imaging, urology, paediatrics, gynaecology, obstetrics, nephrology, pharmacology, global health and infectious medicine. In addition to this, the students will have macroscopic (organ) pathology and histopathology of the breast, male genital tract, endocrine system, kidney, gynaecological cancer, in addition to placental, foetal- and perinatal pathology. There will also be organ demonstrations and a laboratory course in microbiological diagnosis of urinary tract infection and methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
Lectures are optional.
Clinical clerkship
Every week, each PBL group will be assigned to a department for 'clinical clerkship'. In the clerkship students accompany doctors for in- and out-patient visits, physical examination, tutorials and case-studies. The elements of the clerkship vary between departments.
Clerkship | Duration |
---|---|
Endocrinology |
2 weeks |
Radiology / Imaging |
1 week |
Urology |
2 weeks |
Paediatrics |
4 weeks |
Gynaecology |
2 weeks |
Obstetrics |
2 weeks |
Infectious medicine |
1 week |
Nephrology |
2 weeks |
In addition to the organised clerkship, students may join doctors on call at any time.
Attendance in clinical clerkship is mandatory.
PBL Sessions
Students are assigned to groups consisting of 6 to 8 members who work together in PBL (Problem Based Learning) and attend the same clinical clerkships. The groups meet for a weekly 3 hour PBL session, fascilitated by a clinician from their current clinical clerkship. The PBL work centres on given case studies relevant to the field of medicine covered in the lectures and clinica clerkships.
All PBL-sessions are mandatory.
Exam
At the end of the semester there will be a written and an oral exam. The written exam is 4 hours and consist of 100-120 multiple choice questions. The oral exam is OSCE-based (Objective Structured Clinical Examination).
These exams covers all subjects from the semester. Students will need to attend the regular exam at the end of the semester regardless of what they have taken previously (at their home university) if they wish to obtain the 30 ECTS credits for their stay at NTNU.
Students must pass both exams (written and oral) to pass the semester and achieve the ECTS credits.
Please note that we only give one grade for the whole course, and we do not give separate grades to all the subjects in this course.
NB! From autumn 2020 the subject “Child and adolescent psychiatry” is replaced with the subject “Infectious medicine”. Spring 2020 is the last term where “Child and adolescent psychiatry” is taught in the course MD4041 – Medicine semester IID – for foreign student.
Please note that no incoming exchange students will be given admission to courses held in the autumn of 2021 and spring 2022.
The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has a close collaboration with St. Olav's University Hospital. Every semester, medical exchange students come to Trondheim to do clinical rotations at St. Olav's.
All clinical rotations are organized through The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and students apply to NTNU as regular exchange students.
Students are not allowed to contact St. Olav's University Hospital in Trondheim to organize clinical rotations on their own.
All students must register for one or more courses each semester to be considered an active student at NTNU.
Who can apply?
Only students from partner institutions can apply for clinical rotations at NTNU/St. Olav's University Hospital.
Due to limited capacity, NTNU/St. Olav's University Hospital do no longer accept Praktische Jahre students.
Application deadline
Autumn semester: April 1st
Spring semester: October 1st
All applications are processed after the application deadline.
Semester dates
Autumn semester: September 1st to mid-December
Spring semester: Beginning of January to mid-June
Course certificate
At the end of their stay, students can order a Transcript of record for the passed course(s). This is done through Søknadsweb. On request, students may get documentation of which clinic(s) they have attended and the duration of their clinical rotation(s). Further documentation is not offered.
The courses have no exam, only attendance is required. The courses are graded as pass or fail.
Departments that offer clinical rotations to exchange students:
- Surgery
- Internal medicine
- Orthopedics
- Neurology
- ENT (ear, nose and throat)
- Opthalmology
- Oncology
- Rheumatology
- Paediatrics
Students participate in the daily work at the department. There will be no lectures/seminars/exam.
Additional information about clinical rotations
- Clinical rotations are arranged individually for each student outside the regular medical curriculum. The number of available places depends on the capacity in the departments.
- Each student is offered clinical rotations in maximum three (3) departments per semester.
- Clinical rotations must take place within the semester dates. We do not accept any students for clinical rotations during the summer (mid-June to mid-August) or Christmas holidays.
- All clinical rotations must start on a Monday.
- It is preferable that students speak a Scandinavian language. However, English is usually accepted for all departments but Paediatrics. No place is guaranteed until the Faculty coordinator has made all the necessary arrangements with the department. There is limited capacity, and it is not always possible to accommodate all applicants. If you are not accepted one semester, NTNU encourages you to apply again for another semester.
Application form
Apply for Clinical rotation courses
How to fill out your Learning Agreement
In your Learning Agreement, you fill in the course code, subject and preferred start date
Example:
Course code | Clinic | Start date |
---|---|---|
MD3008 |
8 weeks surgery |
February 1 |
MD3008 |
4 weeks surgery, 4 weeks internal medicine |
February 1 |
MD3008 MD3002 |
10 weeks surgery |
September 1 |
MD3016 |
8 weeks surgery, 8 weeks internal medicine |
September 1 |
Course |
Credits |
Semester |
---|---|---|
BEV2008 Fitness and Performance Assessment | 15.0 | Spring |
5.0 | Autumn | |
MFEL1010 Introduction to Medicine for Non-Medical Students (self-tuition) |
7.5 |
Autumn or Spring |
15.0 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 |
Autumn |
* Admission to the course is limited to students from specific partner institutions.
Course |
Credits |
Semester |
---|---|---|
7.5 | Spring | |
30 | Autumn or spring | |
KLH3101 Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Consequences |
7.5 | Autumn |
7.5 | Autumn | |
KLH3108 Obesity Treatment 2: Surgery and Behavioural Treatment |
7.5 | Spring |
MFEL3010 Medicine for Students of Natural Sciences and Technology |
7.5 | Autumn |
7.5 | Spring | |
MH3004 Qualitative Research Methods in Medicine and Health Sciences |
7.5 | Autumn |
7.5 | Autumn | |
7.5 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 |
Spring |
|
7.5 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 |
Spring |
|
7.5 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 |
Spring |
|
7.5 | Spring | |
7.5 | Spring | |
7.5 | Spring | |
7.5 | Spring | |
7.5 | Spring | |
7.5 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 | Autumn | |
7.5 |
Spring |
|
7.5 |
Spring |
|
PAH3009 Occupational Performance in Active Meaningful Living | 7.5 | Spring |
PAH3010 Movement Control and Change | 7.5 | Spring |
5 | Autumn and spring | |
7.5 | Spring | |
RAT3001 Introduction to Medical Imaging Technologies | 7.5 | Autumn |
RAT3101 Introduction to MRI | 7.5 | Autumn |
Course |
Credits |
Semester |
---|---|---|
4.0 |
Spring |
|
7.5 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 |
Spring |
|
5.0 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 |
Autumn |
|
7.5 |
Autumn or Spring |
|
5.0 |
Spring |
|
7.5 |
Autumn |
|
4.0 |
Autumn |
|
4.5 |
Autumn |
|
9.0 |
Autumn |
|
MOL8003 Microarray Technology and Data Analysis - with Laboratory Training |
7.5 |
Spring |
MOL8004 Microarray Technology and Data Analysis - without Laboratory Training |
4.5 |
Spring |
10.0 |
Spring |
|
5.0 |
Autumn or Spring |
|
7.5 |
Autumn |
Please note that some of these courses may be cancelled if too few students register for examination.
The normal workload per semester is 30 credits.
Questions?
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about courses or degree programmes at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences or about studying at NTNU and living in Trondheim.
For information about application procedures and admission, please contact the Office of International Relations.
For information about the content and structure of courses and degree programmes, please contact The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Section of Student and Academic Affairs:
Email: studier@mh.ntnu.no, Phone: + 47 72 82 07 00
The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences offers several courses that are open for exchange students. Below you find lists of such courses taught in English.