Medical Practice & Policy

The Medical Practice & Policy program is designed for students with a serious, documented interest in medicine and have the required science background. The core course and study tours offer you a unique clinical course for pre-med students, not available in the US, valuable hands-on medical experience such as patient cases and clinical lab exercises, and insight into clinical practices and health provision in countries other than the US.

Core Course

Introduction to the most important human diseases, their diagnosis and treatment, and to the clinical working methods of physicians as practiced at a Danish university hospital. Medical policy in the Danish welfare state.

Prerequisites

One year of biology and one year of chemistry at the university level.

Study Tours

The study tours, which are covered by the DIS tuition, form an integral part of the core course. They expose you to medical practice and health care systems of both northern (Denmark plus Sweden or Germany) and eastern European (Poland or Estonia) countries.

Elective Courses

In addition to the required core course, you are free to select any combination of courses from the DIS curriculum. Please click here for a full course overview. If you want to take some of your electives in the field of health care and medicine, check out courses listed under Pre-Medicine, Public Health, Biotechnology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology.

Brochure of Science & Health Programs at DIS


what's special?

Hospital is your classroom

  • The ‘Human Health and Disease’ core course is different from anything you could get back home.  It is taught by medical doctors at the National University Hospital (Rigshospitalet) and Copenhagen University Hospitals (Frederiksberg, Amager, Roskilde, and Hvidovre).  You will try your hand at patient history recording, theoretical and patient clinical cases, and perform physical examinations and procedures on phantoms, such as blood drawing, I.V. entry, and suturing, in the Lab for Clinical Skills.
  • Please be aware that the core class does not provide medical school training and does not include shadowing of doctors or physical examination of patients. 
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Program Brochure

Click here to download the Science & Health programs brochure.

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