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| Professional Exchange : Exchange Conditions of IFMSA-The Netherlands(The Netherlands) | |
| Level of studies | Students in the clinical phase of their study, at least third year students |
| Type of Clerkship | Clinical |
| Languages | The main language is Dutch. Communication with the patients is in Dutch, but the doctors try to take you in to account as much as they can by talking in English to the students. |
| Duration of Clerkship | 4 weeks |
| Working Conditions | 8 hours a day, 5 days a week
The clerkship lasts 4 weeks. Shorter attendance without asking for permission to the Local Exchange Officers AND National Exchange Officer will result in not receiving a certificate and can even lead to expulsion. (depending on the reason) If you want to stay 3 weeks instead of 4, write this already on your AF and notify the NEO, we will see if we can still consider your application. |
| Disciplines | All common clinical fields are available, except psychiatry and alternative medicine.
Check the wikipage to see which departments are generally available in which city. AF's with less than 4 chosen departments will not be accepted! We try to place students in one of their desired departments but there's no guarantee. The same goes for the choice of cities, fill out all three desired places. We still cannot give you guarantee. |
| Periods & Towns | Please note that we cannot accept all students in July and August, so be soon to submit your application if you want to be there. We have around 100 places and only ACCEPT 50% OF THE STUDENTS IN JULY AND AUGUST.
Please be aware that we cannot always put everybody in the city and department of choice, due to the amount of places we have! Especially in July and August this is hard. Estimated available places per University/ City: AMSTERDAM; University of Amsterdam: 12 places AMSTERDAM; Free University: 11 places GRONINGEN; University of Groningen: 13 places LEIDEN; Leiden University: 15 places NIJMEGEN; Radboud University Nijmegen: 13 places ROTTERDAM; Erasmus University Rotterdam: 15 places UTRECHT; University of Utrecht: 10 places |
| Application documents & deadline | Unfortunately we can only accept students who have a passport from a country within the European Union! (except Bulgaria and Romenia). Because of governmental problems we cannot except other students.
We can only accept students who aren't graduated yet. According to Dutch law, only students can do an exchange in the Netherlands. To check this we require a certificate of enrollment. Af's should be send 3 MONTHS before the exchange. Otherwise it is impossible to arrange the exchange for the students. AF's that are send after the deadline will be returned. Each application includes - 1 Application Form - 1 Passport copies - 2 Passport photos - 1 Health insurance certificate - 1 Liability insurance certificate - 1 Travel insurance certificate - 1 English language certificate - 1 Curriculum Vitae (CV) - 1 University document which states that the student is in fact a medical student and in which year he/she is in. - 4 Motivationletters, 1 for each department! (VERY IMPORTANT, short letters and letters that don't state anything about the department will be returned to the student) - Vaccination and screening documents - Heb B: antibody count and vaccination dates - TBC: mantoux or X-ray if BCG vaccinated in childhood - MRSA: nose and throat swab. This is a test to make sure you don't carry this bacteria. The MRSA test needs to be done 2 weeks in advance to the exchange. ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE IN ENGLISH AND AS RECENT AS POSSIBLE. THE DOCUMENTS HAVE TO BE SEND BEFORE THE EXCHANGE STARTS!!!!! Exchanges canceled after the CA is send, will be considered as a used contract. Only a substitution in the same period and department is possible. |
| Digital documents required | - 1 Application Form
- 1 Passport copies - 1 Health insurance certificate - 1 Liability insurance certificate - 1 Travel insurance certificate - 1 English language certificate - 1 Curriculum Vitae (CV) - 1 University document which states that the student is in fact a medical student and in which year he/she is in. - 4 Motivationletters, 1 for each department! (VERY IMPORTANT, short letters and letters that don't state anything about the department will be returned to the student) - Vaccination and screening documents - Heb B: antibody count and vaccination dates - TBC: mantoux or X-ray if BCG vaccinated in childhood - MRSA: nose and throat swab. This is a test to make sure you don't carry this bacteria. The MRSA test needs to be done 2 weeks in advance to the exchange. We require original passportphotos. |
| Card of Acceptance deadline (weeks in advance) |
8 |
| Card of Confirmation deadline (weeks in advance) |
4 |
| Insurance | Students MUST have:
- Health Insurance - Liability Insurance (Third Party Insurance) - travel insurance Students can arrange a insurance package at: http://www.ips-lippmann.com The insurance will cost you around 40 euros and will cover all three insurances for 4 weeks. (cheaper if the student has an european health card) |
| Pocket Money | Yes, unless arranged otherwise; to be used for food or as the student pleases. |
| Board & Lodging | Students will stay in either a student room, or a hostel. Depending on the LC they are going to. |
| Social Program | Local Social Program: Throughout the year.
National Social Program: July and August, mostly in weekends. We ask the students to bring their own sleeping bag! Information will be provided upon arrival. |
| Substitutions | The substitute must accept the same department and period and is preferably from the same gender. All changes must be reported to the NEO.
If a student is late, his/her clerkship may be cancelled if the student has not informed IFMSA-NL about the delay of arrival. The NEO must be informed about the reasons for arriving late, at least three weeks in advance of the clerkship! Emergencies can be an exception, consult the NEO-incoming. |
| Cancellations | Please do inform us as soon as possible!!! We prefer substitutes to cancellations.
If the student cancels the exchange after the CA is send, the contract will be considered as a used contract. Substitution is possible. |
| Visas | IMPORTANT!!
Due to governmental problems we can only accept students who have a passport from a country within the European Union (except Bulgaria and Romenia) |
| Special remarks | 1. MRSA tests will mostly be done again upon arrivel in the hospital in the Netherlands. It is important though to test yourself in your homecountry as well. Because otherwise you cannot start your exchange in time. So please do the test in your own country and send the results as soon as you have them (2 weeks before the exchange)
2. Exchange students work under the same conditions as Dutch students, and must obey all regulations at the hospital. Exchange students who don't show up without letting the department or LEO know, run the risk of not getting their certificate. Students have to be in time and participate actively!! 3. Students arriving with friends, family or pets, without informing the LEOs and NEO-incoming first will immediately send back. 4. Every student should fill out an evaluation form after finishing the clerkship, but before leaving the Netherlands. 5. Students not showing up at the arranged date cause a lot of trouble and will loose accommodation and/or position at the hospital after three days without any announcement. |
| More info Link | www.ifmsa.nl AND www.minbuza.nl |
| These Exchange Conditions are valid until: |
01-03-2012 |
| Last update of data (GMT) | 25/07/2010 |