Medicine, MD, University of Tartu

Estonia

Study options for this course

The award	How you will study	Study duration	Course start	Domestic course fees	International course fees
MD	Full-time	6 years	September	-	EUR 13200 per year

About Medicine, MD - at University of Tartu

6-year programme in Medicine is designed to teach students the core competencies required to become highly skilled doctors. The general objective of the programme is to train physicians who:

are able to provide medical assistance of high quality corresponding to recent achievements in medicine and high ethical standards;
enhance the awareness of society of the importance of measures of health promotion and disease prevention;
wish to contribute by their activities to the development of medicine as a field as well as medical science;
are willing to engage in self-education during their entire professional career.

After graduation students can pursue a wide variety of careers internationally. Students have an opportunity to continue their education in a residency programme in Estonia or abroad and become doctor-specialists; study medicine at doctoral level, or have a job requiring a medical degree.

Why study medicine at the University of Tartu?

You will work with real patients in the largest provider of medical care in Estonia, Tartu University Hospital.
The university belongs to the top 1% of the world'smost-cited universities and scientific institutions inClinical Medicine (ESI 2020)
You will learn the Estonian language to work in local hospitals.
After graduation, you can work as a doctor, enter postgraduate specialist medical training or a PhD programme in Medicine.
UT is in the TOP 1% of the world’s most-cited universities and scientific institutions in the field of Clinical Medicine.
99% of Estonian doctors have graduated from the University of Tartu.