What is it?
The Medical Clinical Placement Programme (MCPP) offers undergraduate medical students from participating U21 HSG member institutions a range of international clinical placement opportunities waived from administration fees. Typically participating universities offer between 5 and 10 placements on an annual basis.
What are the benefits?
Take a step closer to globalising your medical education and gaining a competitive edge
Offers a distinctive experience and resource that will prepare you for life and work across borders, boundaries and cultures
Learn about a different healthcare system
Increase awareness of cultural and socio-economic factors as well as clinical and language communication
Gain better cultural understanding of medical care
Encourages practicing medicine among under-served and multicultural populations.
Who is it aimed at?
The MCPP is aimed at undergraduate medical students in their final year of study. Students must be fluent in English to undertake a placement.
How does it typically run?
To be considered for one of the clinical placements, students should complete the application form stating the university they wish to undertake the placement with.
Students must pay particular attention to the deadline for application in each institution.
Students must also ensure that the application form has been validated by the named representative from their university.
Status for 2024 (as of 14 Feb 2024):
Placements at the Lund University, University of Edinburgh and the University of Queensland are closed for the rest of 2024 (they are all full for U21 HSG partners).
For placements at the University of Hong Kong, you need to consider to apply a minimum of 6 months before the placement period.
For placements at Korea University, you need to consider to apply a minimum of 4 months before the placement period.
For placements at Fudan University, thete are still 4 more opportunities available.
For placements at the University of Glasgow, there may be opportunities available for August 2024 and after.
Which member institutions are currently participating?
Current member institutions that offer clinical placements as part of the programme include the below.
If you are interested in an opportunity, please contact the international office of your home institution. You can click into the links of the respective institution (home or away) to find out who the contact person is.