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FMUSP offers 4 undergraduate courses: Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech Therapy.Check out below the requirements for each of the courses and the available exchange opportunities:

  • Exchange students can attend the disciplines from the 5th year with the same rights and duties of local students.
  • They have to attend, at least, 75% of the course and undertake the exams to be evaluated.
  • Advanced Portuguese is mandatory (B2 level or higher).
  • Duration: 25 weeks (1st semester - 8th January - 30th June) / 18 weeks (2nd semester - July - November)
  • It is mandatory to take the full schedule - 6 months (only one or two disciplines are not possible - in this case, the category below - Electives - should be selected).
  • Maximum duration: 1 semester per student (no exchange extension is allowed).
  • Only students from partner institutions can apply.

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  • The Electives Program is a formal shadowing experience that enables students to watch and take part on procedures and surgeries, attend patient rounds and teaching conferences and have full access to FMUSP library system.
  • It is not possible to combine Internship (category above) and Electives.
  • Portuguese proficiency depends on the course, check it individually.
  • Start and end dates - always starting on the 1st working day of the month and ending on the last one. (In January, the electives will start on January 8th, 2024)
  • Minimum of 4 weeks (1 single elective).
  • Maximum of 12 weeks (3 different electives).
  • USP Code for all the electives: MSP5590
  • Workload: from 105h to 160h / month
  • Only students from partner institutions can apply with full tuition exemptions (for those students from non-affiliated Universities, there is another program with hands-on experience at: https://en.hcxfmusp.org.br/portal/online/curso/hcfmusp-experience/)  

List of Electives

- - FMUSP has a large number of Labs, however, we have not yet established a formal procedure for research stays, as we have for clinical electives. Despite that, we have a list of Labs that receive graduate students from partner institutions for research periods and we think they could eventually analyze applications from your pre-clinical students (see below). For the application, the students can send us a letter of motivation indicating their area and Lab of interest, desired start and end dates, along with a transcript of records, a letter of recommendation, and passport. We will send it to the Lab and they will decide on their capacity to host the student or not.

- Only students from partner institutions can apply

List of Labs available


  • Exchange students can attend the disciplines of Physical Therapy with the same rights and duties as local students. They have to attend, at least, 75% of the course and undertake the exams to be evaluated. 
  • Only students from Partner Institutions can apply.
  • Intermediate Portuguese if mandatory.
  • Practical classes are not available
  • Minimum of 12 credits.

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  • Exchange students can attend the disciplines of Occupational Therapy with the same rights and duties as local students. They have to attend, at least, 75% of the course and undertake the exams to be evaluated. 
  • Minimum of 12 credits
  • Intermediate Portuguese is mandatory.

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  • Exchange students can attend the disciplines of Speech Therapy with the same rights and duties as local students. They have to attend, at least, 75% of the course and undertake the exams to be evaluated. 
  • Advanced Portuguese is mandatory.
  • Minimum of 12 credits

Check the disciplines here