A semester abroad at LMU Faculty of Medicine

I. Courses & Lectures

Our curriculum is based on one module per semester (except for Module 23: extends over two semesters). All modules are offered every semester.

Course Selection Process

When choosing courses, please select a module according to your personal priority. If you do not need the complete module for credit purposes, you may also select only individual course blocks from it, but not single courses.
The details you provide are binding, subsequent changes in the portal cannot be taken into consideration. After admission, please look at the information for medical students in the application portal.

• General note: Attendance is required for most courses - they show up red in your curriculum.
• Note on Module 23: In any one semester, only complete blocks from Part 1 or Part 2 can be taken. The Interdisciplinary Courses, classes to deepen expertise and interests across organ blocks, are not dependent on the part taken.
• Note on Practical training block in Internal medicine & Surgery (M23/o): The practical training blocks are only suitable for students spending a full year at LMU and take place in spring in the period between terms. Please sign up for the course chosen for the Summer Semester.
• Note on Module 5 – Compulsory Elective Seminar: Outpatient medicine & Elective Clinical Study Section: If you wish to sign up for this, please first check the box by the courses 7M3410/7M3604 & 7M1625 in the list of course selections. After you have been enrolled and have been given access to the Campusportal, you will be able to book one or more electives online, provided that there are places available.
• Note on History Taking (3 ECTS, Summer Semester): The offer includes interactive lectures, case studies for practicing comprehensive History Taking skills under the direction of experts, and an opportunity to go into the content in greater depth and have discussions with fellow students. It is a virtual course held in English for medical students and students of health professions, which has been developed jointly by lecturers from Munich, Bari and St. Louis. The course runs parallel to the LMU summer semester.

Requesting several modules in one semester:
According to the MeCuM logic, it is only possible to take one module per semester without any clashes and without any loss of points.
In the past, requests to combine different modules in one semester were only successful in a few cases. It is unfortunately not possible to say in advance whether individual subjects from different modules can be combined in any particular semester. This depends on whether suitable places are available after regular places have been allocated.
Should you still want to combine two or more modules: Please indicate the subject (or group of subjects in descending order) which is most important for you to take and prioritize in your application form. The first priority determines the structure of your timetable, all following priorities will be booked as long as there are no time conflicts. It is essential to state a subject as your priority. Otherwise, your application cannot be considered.
Please also bear in mind: It is not possible to change your choice of courses retroactively, i.e. in the event of conflicts (overlapping times or courses already fully booked) you will need to amend your Learning Agreement During Mobility.
We therefore strongly recommend that you commit to one particular module in order to make the planning process more secure. LMU cannot guarantee that you will be able to take part in all selected courses should you decide to combine modules.

II. Clinical Internships

In principle, exchange students at LMU can be assigned for full-time clinical internships, provided that they do not sign up for any courses/lectures in the semester concerned and that they have completed a minimum of 3 years of a medical degree program.
There are two types of internship, which depend on the level of training reached; proof of language skills has to be submitted with the application:

• MeCuM Elective:
  This internship is intended for students who already have sound competences in clinical practice and, wherever possible, also have theoretical knowledge in the discipline concerned. It involves clinical rotations and some tuition. A German Level of B2 is required.
• PY Elective:
  This internship is reserved for students in the final year of their medical studies. Further requirements are a knowledge of German on the C1 level, sound competences in clinical practice and evidence of theoretical knowledge in the discipline concerned. In addition to clinical rotations, students attend the courses and lectures intended for the Practical Year (PY).

• Please note that applicants are accepted by the academic clinical divisions of the LMU University Hospital Munich on a limited basis.
• You can apply either for the MeCuM Elective or for the PY Elective – depending on the level of training you have reached.
• The earliest possible starting date for clinical internships is the first day of lectures in a semester. For information on lecture times at the Medical Faculty see "Vorlesungszeiten". The latest finishing date is the last day of the semester, i.e. 31st March or 30th September.
• The minimum duration for a subject is 4 weeks.
• The following subjects can be selected:

1. Anesthesia
2. Dermatology
3. ENT
4. Forensic medicine
5. General medicine
6. General surgery: In the field of surgery, rotations in the various sub-disciplines are possible (visceral, trauma, transplantation, thoracic, vascular, cardiac surgery)
7. Gynecology
8. Internal medicine: The Internal medicine disciplines are grouped into three sectors.
   Block I: Cardiology, Nephrology, Angiology
   Block II: Gastroenterology, Endocrinology/Diabetology, Internal intensive care and Respiratory medicine, Infectiology
   Block III: Pneumology, Hematology and oncology, Rheumatology, Geriatric medicine
9. Laboratory medicine
10. Neurology
11. Neuropathology
12. Neurosurgery
13. Nuclear medicine
14. Occupational and environmental medicine
15. Ophthalmology
16. Oral and maxillofacial surgery
17. Orthopedics
18. Pathology
19. Pediatric and adolescent psychiatry
20. Pediatric surgery
21. Pediatrics
22. Physical medicine
23. Plastic surgery
24. Psychiatry
25. Psychosomatic medicine
26. Radiology
27. Radiotherapy/Radiation oncology
28. Urology

In order to improve your chances of a full allocation of time at LMU, please indicate for each subject requested not only the duration, time frame and learning objectives, but also alternative subjects (e.g. Child psychiatry instead of Pediatrics). For assignment in General surgery and Internal medicine, please specify the sub-discipline/s.

• In order to ensure that your work is credited at your home university, please show in the "learning objectives" box what clinical activities are to be performed in the course of the internship and what skills are to be learned.
• For both types of internship, the grade and ECTS points are, where necessary, awarded by the hospital concerned. With regard to ECTS, there is no fixed number of points for clinical internships at LMU. 25–30 internship hours will usually correspond to 1 ECTS point.

After being accepted for clinical internships at LMU, you will receive further information from the hospitals involved directly, or you will be advised to contact the person responsible (PDF, 330 KB). Please note that you are assigned differently from the regular PY dates, and that there can be delays in the planning as a result.
MeCuM & PY Elective students receive meal tickets for the LMU hospital canteen for the whole period of the internship.

Clinical electives ("Famulatur")
In addition to MeCuM courses and lectures, clinical internships can be taken in the form of clinical electives. These must be agreed with the hospital concerned by the exchange students themselves. For a list of teaching hospitals see: PJ-Einrichtungen. If you are staying for 2 semesters, we recommend taking clinical electives in the vacation period, like LMU students. If you should take a clinical elective during semester time, please wait until you have your timetable/MeCuM course assignment for the coming semester in order to identify gaps, so that you can then ask the hospital directly about a clinical elective ("Famulatur"), see Contact persons. Regarding grades and ECTS points, the same guidelines apply to clinical electives as to MeCuM & PY Elective.

In order to have all the clinical internships certified in the Transcript of Records, please ensure that the Certificate of completion form for your internship is confirmed by the hospital concerned: Certificate of completion of a clinical internship (PDF, 905 KB) (please fill out the first drop down menue with either MeCum-Elective OR PY Elective OR Clinical Elective)

III. Registration Process for Courses & Lectures and Clinical Internships

• You need to be nominated at LMU by your home university.
• The deadline for the complete LMU exchange applications is 15th May or 15th November, for the following semester in each case.
• That includes submitting both online applications for an exchange visit in Medicine at the Erasmus-Incoming office at LMU and at the Faculty of Medicine.

Once your list of course choices has been received and your placement has been approved, the Dean’s Office will prepare your timetable for the coming semester.

Please note the following:

• German proficiency at at least B2 level is required at time of application. For clinical internships, official evidence of language skills (Goethe-Zertifikat, TestDaF, etc.) is required; the LMU Confirmation of Language Skills form is not sufficient as evidence.
• The course/internship choices you make are binding.
• The final assignment is the sole responsibility of the Dean’s Office. Please do not contact the modules or teachers for course assignment.
• If you wish to cancel a course/internship, please contact the International Office and the Dean's Office.
• Certificates will only be issued for tuition assigned by the Dean’s office. (Exception: clinical electives arranged on your own initiative, see "Famulatur")
• You study in accordance with the LMU examination and study regulations.
• The relevant examinations are held at the end of the courses, up to two weeks after the end of lectures. To sign up for examinations, please consult the departmental representative after the beginning of lectures.
• The results of the examinations are certified in the transcript of records accordingly (grade and ECTS credits).
• Please make sure to hand in the log books to the corresponding module after completion of your courses.

For Courses & Lectures: Your timetable can only be activated in the Campusportal after you have enrolled at LMU. Activation takes a few days. Approximately one week before lectures start you can then see the timetable and the courses to which you have been assigned. Information on lecture times can be found at: "Vorlesungszeiten"

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