TRANS-EUROPEAN MEDICAL-EDUCATION - EXPERIENCE OF THE FACULTY-OF-MEDICINE-OF-OVIEDO

The European Community has played a key role in organizing student mob ility programmes and in emphasizing the need for a European medical cu lture. The need for a common core of medical principles and efforts to strengthen inter-European cooperation nurture the philosophy of these exchanges. The Faculty of Medicine of Oviedo has been working on stud ent mobility programmes for the last 7 years. As a result of this acti vity, about four hundred medical students have participated in various exchanges. This experience is highly positive both for the students a nd for the institutions taking part in it. The students have the chanc e to become acquainted with a different country, language, culture and medical training system. Meanwhile, the institutions benefit from the ir students' experience as well as having the opportunity of starting further cooperative programmes.