Medicine, profile Global Health

How do you deal with the cultural diversity of patients and colleagues when you are a general practitioner in Amsterdam (160 different nationalities)? How do you adapt treatment and prevention programmes to the specific target groups? How do global epidemics influence your work? In the Global Health learning community, we focus on the major factors that influence the health of individuals and populations worldwide. Their needs cannot be solved via Medicine alone. Therefore, the programme also includes an introduction to Finance, Law, Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Geopolitics and the work of the United Nations, and others. The student group will include many nationalities. The language in this community is English. You will have to prove your proficiency in Dutch during the Bachelor phase and might need to learn Dutch, before you can enter the Master in Medicine programme. Most clinical rotations in the Master phase are in the Netherlands. Yet research placements and some clinical rotations can be performed outside the Netherlands. We prepare our medical students for work as medical specialists, researchers or health policy makers anywhere in the world.

Instruction modes

case study, literature study, oral presentation, computer exercise, research, research project, research proposal, tutorial, lecture, working group, group assignment, portfolio, workshop, group discussion, poster presentation, self evaluation, individual assignment, practicum, self study, project, laboratory work

Accreditation: NVAO

Erasmus Mundus program: This is an Erasmus Mundus program.

Admission requirements

Admission will include a decentralized selection procedure (not a ballot). For information about the decentralized selection please check the following site: http://www.rug.nl/umcg/education/medicine/decentrale-selectie-geneeskunde Information about requirements and deficiencies: http://www.rug.nl/umcg/education/medicine/selection_-admission-requirements-and-deficiencies

Other requirements

1. minimum kennis (ISPAC: overige vereisten) Admission will include a decentralized selection procedure (not a ballot). For information about the decentralized selection please check the following site: http://www.rug.nl/umcg/education/medicine/decentrale-selectie-geneeskunde Information about requirements and deficiencies: http://www.rug.nl/umcg/education/medicine/selection_-admission-requirements-and-deficiencies
2. vooropleiding (ISPAC: vereiste vooropleiding) For international students to be eligible to the program you must have attained the necessary qualifications for admittance into a Bachelor's in Medicine program in your own country; your secondary education must be comparable to Dutch VWO diploma and include qualifications in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics + English. For more information send an e-mail to admission@rug.nl