Welcome International Students!
Information for visiting students/clinical electives
Please consider the following before applying:
- Electives have to be 4 weeks per department minimum
- Electives are always subject to availability, no guarantees can be given
- Electives can only be organized for students from partner institutions
- Electives will not be graded and there will be no exams. We can only provide you with a confirmation of stay.
- German language skills have to be fluent enough to communicate with patients and staff, so the daily routines on the wards are not disrupted.
Note: The departments are free to refuse applicants upon arrival if German language skills prove not to be sufficient! - We cannot organize accommodation unless specified in a bilateral agreement.
- For information about the possibility of working as clinical elective at the University Medical Centre Freiburg, please contact the respective department directly at the University Medical Centre Freiburg. All departments can be found at www.uniklinik-freiburg.de.
- Infosheet clinical electives
International Relations Office of the Faculty of Medicine
International Office of the university of Freiburg
Your contact to the teaching coordination team for surgery, orthopaedics/trauma surgery and urology:

For general questions or if you do not know a specific contact person, please use the e-mail address below. We will endeavor to answer you as quickly as possible!
Please do not send your request to the functional address and also to a contact person in order to avoid duplication. Thank you very much!