Before
Steps for Incoming Students
1. Nomination from your Home university
2. Check the subjects offered for Incoming students
3. Check the study guides
4. Check the teaching semester
5. Check the clinical internship schedule (Medicine)
6. Complete the online "Application"
7. Fill in the "Application for subjects" (Medicine)
Exchange stays can be for 1st semester, 2nd semester or full year (depending on the agreement).
During the stay at UAB, incoming students are going to be in the Hospital Teaching Units (not at the Bellaterra Campus).
It is not allowed to take the clinical internships during the summer, out of the calendar period. The assigned Hospital Teaching Unit will contact the student to specify the clinical internship specific schedule.
Degree in Medicine
Incoming students can take theoretical courses (in 3rd, 4th, 5th year) and/or clinical rotations/internship. The rotations are exclusive for last year students. Students can enrol up to 42 ECTS credits, for one semester stay, or up to 78 ECTS credits if they come the whole academic course.
IMPORTANT: 6th year's Clinical internships are exclusive for last year students of the Medicine degree
These clinical internships have a special schedule and the duration may vary depending on each one.
Language requirements
To follow studies at Faculty of Medicine at UAB it is required :
- B2 in Catalan or Spanish, if the student wants to take internships from Clinical Practice.
- B1 in Catalan or Spanish, for the rest of the subjects.
Accepted certifications: Official certificates, certificates issued by the Language Services of the home university or certificates issued by the home university.
If the student does not attach it during the application period, he/she will be provisionally accepted until the presentation of the document, by July at the latest.
Our study programme is based on a big practical charge, where our students are in contact with patients who usually speak in Spanish or Catalan. In consequence, no classes are given in English, so a good level of Spanish or Catalan is necessary to receive a good medical education.
The courses are taught in Spanish or Catalan, upon the professors, and it is informed in the study guides.
UAB can also offer to our incoming students the possibility of complementing their Spanish knowledge by entering some Spanish or Catalan course at our Language School.
During the stay at UAB the exchange students are going to be in the Hospital Teaching Units (not at the Bellaterra Campus).
Degree in Medicine
The Hospital Teaching Units of UAB for the degree in Medicine are:
- Teaching Unit Sant Pau
- Teaching Unit Vall d’Hebron
- Teaching Unit Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol
- Teaching Unit Parc Tauli
Students can express their preferences (in the Application for subjects), but the assignment to a Hospital Teaching Unit will be done by the Coordination.
Criteria for the hospital assignment:
- Course offer. It will be taken into account the courses in the application of the student to make sure that students can make as much subjects as possible.
- Order of preference.
- In the event of a tie, the student's average grade will be considered. The student must submit their transcript or a certificate of grades that includes this average.
- Students with any type of disability that disrupt and/or restrain mobility must submit the relevant documentation, which will be considered to determine the most suitable Teaching Unit for their needs.
The final assignment will be notified to the student at the same time as their program of studies is accepted. This communication will be made by email.Subsequently the Hospital Teaching Unit will contact students, in the case of the Clinical internship, to inform them of the schedule.
Degree in Nursing
Nursing students do their subjects and practices in the following hospitals:
- Teaching Unit Vall d’Hebron
- Teaching Unit Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol
- Teaching Unit Parc Tauli
The the assignment to a Hospital Teaching Unit will be done by the Exchange Coordinator during the admission and course selection process.
Degree in Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy students taking 2nd and 3rd year courses are assigned to Sant Pau Teaching Unit during their stay at the UAB, and students assigned to 4th year courses are assigned to Vall Hebron Teaching Unit. There they will study both theory and practice of the subjects in which they are enrolled.
Combining both options is not advisable since courses are taugh in different hospitals. Please contact us if should you have any query about the process.
Some elective subjects may be given in other hospital Teaching Units, which are indicated in the annual planning.The assignation of clinical practices will be individually closed.
Academic course offering
| Planned subjects | Medicine |
| Nursing | |
| Physiotherapy |
MEDICINE:
Clinical internship Schedule 26/27
Subjects and Exams schedules 26/27
The schedules will be published before the enrollment period.
The final registration of elective subjects will be conditioned to the existence of available places at UAB when the student does his/her registration at the Exchange Office.Without these documents and the on-line application it is not possible to accept your study program at UAB neither your assignment to our Hospital Teaching Unit. Invitation to UAB will be done once accepted your study program.
Application for subjects (only Medicine degree)
There is only one period to apply, no matter the kind of stay you are going to do.You can check all deadlines below:
| Application for subjects | International students: from 1st to 31st May |
| Application for subjects (and attach Certificate of Language in Catalan or Spanish and Academic Transcript of Records) | |
| Sicue students (Spain): from 1st May to 15th June | |
| Application for subjects(and attach Academic Transcript of Records) | |
| Resolution to the application | 30th June |
| Learning agreement |
Send by e-mail to: intercanvis.medicina@uab.cat If it is signed before the resolution (30/06) it will be done as provisional Resolution: 27th of July. |
| Registration | 1st semester: From the 1st to 7th of September, 2026 |
| Learning agreement modifications | 1st semester and annual: before 25th of September, 2026 |
| 2nd semester: before 26th of February, 2027 |
Nursing and Physiotherapy students
Nursing and Physiotherapy students must send their Learning Agreement to: intercanvis.medicina@uab.cat
| Academic Calendar* | 1st semester: 9th September 2025* – February 6th 2026 |
| * Start of the academic course, 9th September. Once accepted in the program, each student will receive instructions from the assigned Hospital Unit regarding the start date | |
| 2nd semester: 9th February 2026 – July 3rd 2026 | |
| (!) The rotations calendar works independently from the academic calendar. |
The Exchange Office at the Faculty of Medicine (Bellaterra Campus) will complete your enrollment before the start of your stay will provide you with a copy.
At the time of enrollment, a medical and civil liability insurance with coverage in Spain will be included. The insurance fee for the 26/27 academic year will be €4.02.
When you receive the email with your enrollment, you must make the insurance payment through Online services and formalities: Log in with your NIU and password at the following link: TPV payment.
Compulsory documents for enrollment:
- Valid identity document (scan/photo).
- Academic agreement / Learning Agreement
- Postal address where you will be residing during your stay and contact telephone number
Enrolment will be processed in order of receipt of the complete documentation from the student (to be taken into account in the case of optional subjects) and we will send you your receipt once it has been formalised.