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Practical year
In your final year of study, the practical year, you will apply the medical knowledge and skills you have previously learnt in everyday clinical practice. The practical year consists of 16 weeks of clinical training in the fields of surgery, internal medicine and your preferred elective subject. As a practical year student, you will be able to carry out many medical tasks independently or under the supervision of a supervising physician, including e.g. patient admission and diagnostics. At the Faculty of Medicine in Heidelberg, you have a wide range of different teaching hospitals and electives to choose from and receive excellent support from the respective practical year officers.
The choice of your training location during the final year influences the course of your practical training. The University Hospital offers you many structured teaching programmes as well as the opportunity to observe rare or serious diseases and interventions. At the academic teaching hospitals, on the other, you will receive basic training under a more personal supervision. Finally, completing parts of the practical year abroad not only provides you with practical training, but also allows you to further develop your intercultural and language skills.
The practical year can be completed at Heidelberg University Hospital or at one our many academic teaching hospitals. The practical year representatives (also known as PJ officers) at the departments of Heidelberg University Hospital and the academic teaching hospitals are the contact persons for students in their practical year. You can find them on the respective websites of the clinics and teaching hospitals.
The subjects at Heidelberg University Hospital
Compulsory subjects:
- Internal medicine
- Surgery
Electives:
- General medicine
- Anaesthesia
- Ophthalmology
- Dermatology
- Geriatrics
- Gynaecology
- Cardiac surgery
- ENT
- Clinical Immunology, Infection Diagnostics and Tropical Medicine
- Infectious diseases and tropical medicine
- Interdisciplinary oncology
- Paediatric surgery
- Paediatric and adolescent psychiatry
- Clinical Genetics
- Clinical pharmacology
List of academic teaching hospitals
Baden-Baden/Klinikum Mittelbaden Baden-Baden Balg
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology, paediatrics, neurology, radiology
Baden-Baden, Acuraklinik Rheumazentrum
Offered subjects: internal medicine, psychosomatics
Bad Rappenau, Vulpiusklinik
Offered subjects: Orthopaedics
Bad Friedrichshall, Klinikum am Plattenwald
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology, urology
Bietigheim, Kliniken Innere Medizin
Offered subjects: surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology, radiology
Bretten, Rechbergklinik
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia
Bruchsal, Fürst-Stirum-Klinik
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology, urology
Buchen, Neckar-Odenwald-Kliniken
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology
Eberbach, GRN-Klinik
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery
Heidelberg, Bethanienkrankenhaus
Offered subjects: Internal Medicine, Geriatrics
Heidelberg, Kliniken Schmieder
Offered subjects: Neurology
Heidelberg, SRH Kurpfalzkrankenhaus
Offered subjects: Internal Medicine, Neurology
Heidelberg, St Vincentius Hospital
Offered subjects: Internal Medicine
Heidelberg, Salem Hospital, Evangelical City Mission
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, urology, anaesthesia, gynaecology
Heidelberg, Thoraxklinik
Offered subjects: internal medicine, pneumology, thoracic surgery
Heilbronn, Klinikum am Gesundbrunnen
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, ophthalmology, dermatology, gynaecology, ENT medicine, paediatrics, radiology, urology, neurology
Heppenheim, Bergstrasse District Hospital
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology, orthopaedics, anaesthesia
Karlsbad, SRH Klinikum
Offered subjects: psychiatry, internal medicine, anaesthesia, neurology, orthopaedics/trauma surgery, radiology
Ludwigsburg, Klinikum
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology, neurology, paediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, urology, neurosurgery
Ludwigshafen, BG Accident Clinic
Offered subjects: plastic surgery, trauma surgery
Maulbronn, Children's Centre
Offered subjects: Paediatrics
Mosbach, Neckar-Odenwald-Kliniken
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology
Pforzheim, Helioskliniken
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, ophthalmology, gynaecology, neurology, paediatrics, urology
Pforzheim, Siloah St. Trudpert Klinikum
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, ENT medicine, gynaecology, psychosomatics, radiology, urology
Schwäbisch-Hall, Diakonie-Klinikum
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology, neurology, paediatrics, psychosomatics, radiology
Schwetzingen, GRN Clinic
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology
Sinsheim, GRN Clinic
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology, neurology, orthopaedics/trauma surgery
Weinheim, GRN Clinic
Offered subjects: internal medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, gynaecology, orthopaedics
Weinsberg, Klinikum am Weissenhof
Offered subjects: Psychiatry, KJP
Wiesloch, Psychiatric Centre Nordbaden
Offered subjects: Psychiatry
