Rules and procedures to register for and to attend hospital-based curricular clinical clerkships
Registration for hospital-based clinical clerkships can be accessed only by students who:
Attention! Students who carry out internship activities through International Mobility Programs promoted by Unibo (Erasmus+, Overseas, study grants for international learning experiences abroad and study grants awarded by the degree program) must NOT book these internships through the Studenti Online platform. These must only be listed in mobility documents and on Alma RM and will be registered through the normal recognition procedure.
Check this page for information on how to register for hospital-based clinical clerkships and how to manage your registrations.
Registration for curricular clinical clerkships follow a calendar defined annually, published in the clinical clerkship registration calendar page.
Registration for hospital-based clinical clerkships is available on ‘Studenti Online’ and opens on 09:00h (Italian time) of the scheduled registration start date (see calendar page).
On Studenti Online > Internships Medicine, details of the start/end dates for each clinical clerkship period are available.
PLEASE NOTE: students who have yet to undergo their preliminary medical check are kindly invited to consider the compatibility between the date of their medical check appointment at the Occupational Medicine service and the dates of the first hospital-based clinical clerkship for which they will register (see 'How to register and have clinical clerkships recorded' section below).
Clinical clerkships usually take place from 8:00h to 13:00h from Monday to Friday.
Attendance to clinical clerkship activities is compulsory; to meet the attendance requirement, students must attend at least 75% of the scheduled activities.
Clinical clerkships of students who do not meet the minimum attendance requirement will be assessed as ‘failed’ (‘non idoneo’); in this case, a new clinical clerkship period must be booked following the procedure described on this page.
Registration for hospital-based clinical clerkships is available only on ‘Studenti Online’ according to the dates planned in the clinical clerkship registration calendar, by selecting the ‘Medicine Internship’ icon and choosing the period and hospital ward where you intend to carry out the clinical clerkship.
Attention! Students who carry out internship activities through International Mobility Programs promoted by Unibo (Erasmus+, Overseas, study grants for international learning experiences abroad and study grants awarded by the degree program) must NOT book these internships through the Studenti Online platform. These must only be listed in mobility documents and on Alma RM and will be registered through the normal recognition procedure.
Log in on ‘Studenti Online’, select the ‘Medicine Internship’ icon and choose the period and hospital ward where you wish to carry out your clinical clerkship.
After this, the status of the clinical clerkship is:
‘Application submitted’
Applications can be changed until 5 days prior to the scheduled start of the clinical clerkship by cancelling the current application from ‘Studenti Online’ and submitting another application for a different period and/or hospital ward. It is not possible to register for more than one clinical clerkship for the same period.
Students who need to cancel a clinical clerkship application but are unable to do so via ‘Studenti Online’ may notify Ufficio Servizi agli studenti and the relevant hospital ward.
At the end of the clinical clerkship, the clerkship Tutor or Coordinator confirm attendance, and the status becomes:
‘Attendance Confirmed’
After confirmation of attendance, the Director of the hospital ward or the clerkship Coordinator enter the pass/fail assessment and the status changes to:
‘Application completed’
When the status is ‘Application completed’, students can access the clerkship detail page by clicking on ‘see detail’ on the right-hand side of the ‘Studenti Online’ page and fill in the assessment form. Once the form has been completed, the status changes to:
‘Questionnaire completed’
The learning activity is now automatically included in the study plan and submitted to the Chair of the Clinical Clerkship Board for official recording. The recording date of each clinical clerkships is the day on which the pass/fail assessment was entered by the Director of the hospital ward or the clerkship Coordinator, after the end of the clerkship itself. After the academic record is signed, the status is:
‘Application accepted’
Once this status is displayed, the procedure is completed.
In case of failure to show up for a booked clinical clerkship, the Director or Clinical clerkship Coordinator record that the student was absent, and the status becomes:
‘Application cancelled’
Once this status is displayed, it is possible to register again for another clinical clerkship.
Hospital-based clinical clerkships: please refer to the document ‘Clinical clerkship contacts’ available in the ‘Clinical clerkship contact details’ box on this web page.
Simulation-based clinical clerkships: please refer to the dedicated page.
Clinical clerkship contact persons are indicated in the documents in the ‘Clinical clerkship contact details’ box on this web page.
On the first day of each clinical clerkship, hospital ward staff will introduce students to the hospital ward and to the schedule of activities for the rest of the clerkship period; students are therefore strongly recommended to arrive on time.
During clinical clerkships, students must behave appropriately and in accordance with their role as prospective healthcare professionals. They are therefore required to:
Check the Code of Conduct and the Guidelines and clinical clerkship skills in the ‘Regulations and Guidelines’ box on this page.
While attending clinical clerkships, students must wear a white coat in compliance with institutional rules and regulations on workplace hygiene. White coats are not provided by teaching hospitals.
Operating theater – disposable uniforms
Medicine and Surgery students are entitled to disposable operating theatre uniforms only during the day(s) in which they are scheduled to attend operating theatres/cleanrooms.
Procedure for collecting operating theatre uniforms
Trainees enrolled in Medicine and Surgery Degree Courses have the right to use disposable uniforms only for the planned day(s) of the clinical clerkship period.
To collect them, follow the instructions below:
Please note that:
Should it become necessary to cancel a clinical clerkship due to impediments to attendance during the booked period, the application must be cancelled as soon as possible to allow for the vacant slot to be taken up by another student.
Applications can be cancelled on Studenti Online until 5 days prior to the scheduled start of the clinical clerkship (= the previous Wednesday).
Cancellations that should exceptionally become necessary after this deadline can be notified to Ufficio Servizi agli studenti and to the relevant hospital ward.
To reschedule a clinical clerkship following cancellation or ‘fail’ assessment due to non-attendance, a new application must be entered via Studenti Online, as described on this page.
Please note: it is not possible to register for more than one clinical clerkship for the same clinical clerkship group, therefore any submitted application must be cancelled in order to register again. Students who are unable to cancel their clinical clerkship application on Studenti Online may email Ufficio Servizi agli studenti (see contact details on this page).
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