{"id":130893,"date":"2021-09-29T17:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=130893"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:54","slug":"waiting-times-for-medical-internships-have-increased-substantially-due-to-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/09\/29\/waiting-times-for-medical-internships-have-increased-substantially-due-to-corona\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting times for medical internships have increased substantially due to corona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partly due to corona, the waiting times for internships have increased substantially. Some students have to wait more than one and a half years before they can begin, an investigation conducted by Erasmus Magazine shows.<\/p>\n

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Some of the students who had planned to start their internships in September were recently told that they could not start until the spring of 2023. This leads to study delays, changed plans and financial uncertainty. EM spoke with fourteen students last month about their waiting periods. It is not clear exactly how many students are struggling with this problem, but dozens of requests to swap starting dates are circulating on social media. Not everyone succeeds in swapping schedules, so some students opt to do an extra master\u2019s or to go and work.<\/p>\n\n\t

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