Personalizing the PJ

Basically, you have three models to choose from, according to which you can put together the prescribed tertials in surgery, internal medicine and an elective to suit your needs:

• The clinical internship year is in your hands and must be planned and organized by you! This is especially true for tertials that are completed outside of HHU. The staff from the area of study organization (Q3 / M3) in the Dean of Studies can support you with questions or problems.
• The actual design of your clinical internship year depends on the available places at the respective institutions.
• If you plan to complete the elective at a university hospital or an academic teaching hospital in Germany or abroad, but take the Third Section of the Medical Examination (M3) at HHU, you can only take an elective that is also offered at UKD. Otherwise, you cannot be examined and must repeat the tertial (in another elective).
• You must continue to be enrolled as a student in the state examination program in human medicine without any gaps until the end of your internship year, including the third section of the medical examination. As a rule, HHU remains your home university - regardless of how much time of the PJ you spent at external institutions in Germany or abroad.
• Each university has the right to organize the clinical internship year in its own way within the framework of the legal requirements. You should therefore find out at an early stage from the university at which you intend to spend tertial periods what the regulations there are and in what way it is possible for you to apply as an external student.
• The Third Section of the Medical Examination (M3) usually takes place at the hospital where you complete the elective. If the elective is completed outside HHU, it will take place at the UKD. The same applies if you have spent all three tertials at institutions in Germany or abroad, but are still enrolled at HHU.

The clinical internship year begins in mid-May (spring cohort) and mid-November (fall cohort). The exact start times are jointly determined by the dean's offices of the medical schools. Therefore, tertials cannot be started earlier or later. Currently, the following dates and tertial times have been decided: