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28 young people from Saxony will begin their medical training in Pécs in September
August 27, 2025
Twenty-eight young people from Saxony will begin their studies at the UP Medical School on 1 September 2025 as part of the "Studieren in Europa – Zukunft in Sachsen" model programme, which aims to contribute to strengthening rural medical care in Germany in the long term.
As Die Zeit reports, the programme offers 40 places per year. Twenty of these places are funded by the Saxon Medical Association and the welfare funds, while the tuition fees for the remaining 20 places are covered by the Saxon Ministry for Social Affairs and Health.
It is known that there has been a successful cooperation between the UPMS and the Saxony Association of General Practitioners (KVS) since 2013. Students complete their studies entirely in the German programme at the Medical School in Pécs, where they obtain their degrees and then return to Saxony to practice as general practitioners in exchange for the financial support. In 2020, the Saxon Ministry for Social Affairs and Health also joined this cooperation. The tuition fees for 40 students per year are paid in full by the KVS and the Saxon Ministry for Social Affairs and Health.
In the frame of the now 12-year-old programme, more than 300 students have been admitted to the Medical School in Pécs. The first 11 students graduated in 2019, and to this date, 77 students have earned degrees at the medical school in South Transdanubia thanks to the collaboration. The first graduate from Pécs, Maximilian Braun, began practicing as a general practitioner this summer.
As we mentioned earlier, the programme serves as a model for collaborations with other partners and similar projects. In 2021, the faculty entered into similar educational cooperation agreements with the state of Saxony-Anhalt in the field of dentistry and with the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the field of general medical training in 2023, with a total of 27 additional students participating each year.
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Dávid Verébi/UP MS