{"id":4864,"date":"2022-01-13T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatstudent.flowragency.be\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:33:35","slug":"healthcare-studies-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/etudes-de-sante-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare studies: what opportunities are there in Europe to become a doctor or vet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Healthcare studies in Europe: training abroad to become a doctor or vet.<\/h2>\n<h3>You wish to become a doctor or veterinarian and are wondering about university training options recognised within Europe.<br \/>\nExpat Student brings you answers.<\/h3>\n<p>Outside of France and Belgium, an increasing number of French students are turning to <b>reputable training courses<\/b> exempted<b> in English <\/b>or<b> in French <\/b>at universities in Spain, Malta, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>Why are health studies so appealing?<\/h2>\n<p>Here are some of the reasons given by our students who choose to study abroad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>selection<\/strong> is done<strong> at the entrance<\/strong> of the training and not as in France at the end of the first year of medicine or two years of vet prep school<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">The training courses are <b>more practice-oriented<\/b> from the early years<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">The <b>staff<\/b> are<b> more restricted<\/b> and the less competitive atmosphere<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">The possibility of\u2019<b>learn a new language<\/b>, that of the country \u2013 For certain courses, the final years are taught in this language, and for all of them, students must be able to communicate with locals during clinical placements<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">The desire for a <b>international student experience<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A wide choice, a few examples\u2026.<\/h2>\n<p>In Spain, the renowned universities of <b>Valencia <\/b>and of <b>Navarre <\/b>offer medical and veterinary training taught in English for the first few years. The veterinary training is also available in French. They continue in Spanish from the 3rd year onwards.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious English university <b><i>Queen Mary University<\/i><\/b> offers on its campus to <strong>Malta<\/strong> the same five years of medical training as those taught on its London campus, albeit with a separate admissions process and its own tuition fees.<\/p>\n<p>Two universities in the city of <b>Cluj-Napoca <\/b>in Romania offer medical and veterinary training with teaching in English or French for the first few years, accompanied by intensive Romanian language courses to be able to carry out clinical placements in subsequent years in the language of the country. To give you some figures, there are currently in medicine more than <b>500 students following the French-language curriculum there<\/b> and near to <b>1,000 students on the English-medium course<\/b>. The presence of all these foreign students helps make Cluj a vibrant city with a very international atmosphere.<\/p>\n<h2>The cost of healthcare studies in Europe by country<\/h2>\n<p>Tuition fees vary by country and university, ranging from \u20ac9,000 a year in Romania to \u20ac35,000 a year in Malta, with opportunities for merit-based scholarships for certain courses.<\/p>\n<h2>And after these studies?<\/h2>\n<p>The training courses of <b>vet<\/b>\u00a0that we offer you are all <b>accredited <\/b>by the EAEVE (European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education), which allows students, once they have graduated, to practise their veterinary profession anywhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Following the studies of <b>medicine <\/b>in a university course recognised in Europe which we help you to select, students can access postgraduate studies and do their <b>intern in France. <\/b>\u00a0For this purpose, they sit the same competitive entrance examinations as those who studied in France.<\/p>\n<h2>When to contact us to get support with carrying out your healthcare studies outside of France?<\/h2>\n<p><b>Right now! <\/b>Whether you are in your final year of high school, your first year of medicine, or a prep class for veterinary school, you are still in time to apply to certain foreign universities for the upcoming academic year. We will help you select the courses and prepare your application file to apply on time.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in Year 12, we can already give you information <a href=\"https:\/\/expatstudent.flowragency.be\/candidature-de-votre-enfant-au-royaume-uni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to help you prepare well in advance and to <b>optimise your application<\/b> application<\/a> through work experience or exam preparation depending on the target courses.<\/p>\n<p>****************<\/p>\n<p>Expat Student supports you in all your international study projects by offering individual and bespoke guidance.<\/p>\n<p>We help you apply<i> stress-free<\/i> at prestigious universities in the UK, Europe and Canada on courses as diverse as <i>International Business Management, Engineering, English Literature, History, International Relations and Politics, International Law, Medicine, Veterinary Studies.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Get a free remote consultation by contacting us <a href=\"\/en\/contact@expatstudent.fr\/\">by email <\/a>\u00a0or by phone on + 33 (1) 34 84 70 94<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/expatstudent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wish to become a doctor or veterinarian and are wondering about university training options recognised within Europe.<br \/>\nExpat Student brings you answers.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-francais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatstudent.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"WP","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}