Our university offers a 6 months practical training (staż) for our graduates.

Internship is placed in hospitals of Medical University of Silesia. 

To provide the best quality of training the trainees are divided into 2-person groups.

After the training, you receive a certificate of completion which should be send to the Ministry of Health within 3 months. A positive decision of the Minister is equivalent to the fulfillment of the postgraduate internship required in the procedure for obtaining the doctor’s license in Poland. 

The start date of the next edition is September 16, 2024 till March 30, 2025. The admission process starts on July 1, 2024. Please keep checking this website for updates: https://studiapodyplomowe.sum.edu.pl/staze/

 

Important dates for 2024:

  • July 1 – July 5: application process
  • Till July 10: notification of admission status
  • July 16: deadline for submitting all required documents
  • July 29: deadline for signing the contract
  • August 12: deadline for paying the fee (2 weeks from signing the contract)
  • Around September 9: details on your first meeting with internship coordinator will be sent to your email address
  • September 16: start date of the internship
  • December 8: deadline for choosing the subject of your last 4 weeks of the internship
  • December 24 – January 6: Christmas break
  • March 30: end date of the internship 

 

Here’s some more information on practical training:

  • Internship can be done within 2 years of graduating. Meaning, if you graduate in June 2024, you need to complete the whole internship no later than June 2026.
  • The practical training takes 6 months and 2 weeks to complete (due to 2 weeks of Christmas break).
  • The subject of the last 4 weeks of the internship can be chosen by the trainee (from the subjects included in the internship program). You should make your choice within 10 weeks of staż start date.
  • Limit of the number of participants is 20.
  • The fee for internship is 45,000 PLN.
  • The Recruitment Committee will create a ranking list. The order of placing candidates on the ranking list will be determined by the arithmetic average of grades obtained during their studies, and in the case of identical averages for two or more candidates, the date of completion of studies will take precedence, with priority given to those who completed their studies earlier.
  • Only those individuals from the ranking list who have no outstanding obligations, including financial obligations to the University, will be allowed to proceed to the second stage of the recruitment process.
  • The basis for taking up the internship is concluding a contract with SUM. In order for a contract to be prepared, the following requirements have to be fulfilled: obtaining a medical certificate issued by a doctor authorized to conduct preventive examinations that there are no health contradictions for the training, concluding a third party liability insurance and accident insurance for the duration of the training.
  • The payment needs to be made within 2 weeks of signing the contract, but at least 2 weeks before the starting date of the internship.