30 September 2024
Bilbao Campus
During the 2023-2024 academic year, a total of 253 students from the degrees of Medicine, Nursing and Physiotherapy of the University of Deusto carried out their internships at IMQ, within the framework of the collaboration agreement in force between both entities and renewed last July. The data were released on the occasion of the start of the internships at IMQ for students in the second year of the University of Deusto's (UD) Medicine degree, corresponding to the 2024-2025 teaching period.
In the last academic year, a total of 98 students of Medicine of Deusto carried out internships at IMQ, including first, second, third and fourth year students. As for the Nursing degree of this University, 136 students from the first and second year of the degree were involved in internships with IMQ. Finally, as regards the Physiotherapy degree, the number of students was 19, members of the second and third year.
The reception of the Medical Degree interns for the 2024-2025 academic year was held on September 30 at the IMQ Zorrotzaurre University Hospital, in an event attended by 25 second year students. The first year students will carry out their internships from January to June; the third year students will begin in November; the fourth year students will do the same in March; and finally, the fifth year students will begin their internships with IMQ in January.
For the family photo, taken to commemorate the start of the University of Deusto's Medical internships at IMQ this year, the students of the Nursing degree joined in the internship.
Isabel Urrutia, Director of Quality and Patient Safety at IMQ Clinics, pointed out during the meeting that “the gradual incorporation of the successive promotions of the remaining Nursing degrees at the University of Deusto will mean that, by the 2025-2026 academic year, we will have more than 350 students, each year, training at the IMQ Zorrotzaurre Clinic. This fact places us as a reference in university teaching in private healthcare in the Basque Country”.
He also highlighted the value that, from the different IMQ Group centers, the IMQ professionals involved in the internships make in “welcoming the students, accompanying them in their healthcare learning process, helping them to evaluate the different options and professional horizons and contributing values based on the humanization of healthcare and the ethical treatment of patients. All this, from a personalized approach in continuous progression, according to their learning, course by course and grade by grade”.
Most of these students' internships take place at the IMQ Zorrotzaurre University Hospital and at the IMQ Colón (Bilbao), Zurriola (San Sebastián) and Amárica (Vitoria-Gasteiz) university centers. In addition to the above, the students will also rotate at the IMQ Virgen Blanca Clinic and at various IMQ Group centers, such as polyconsulting centers (Abendaño, Barakaldo), IMQ Igurco (Unbe and Zorrozgoiti) and IMQ Amsa psychology and psychiatry centers.
The renewal of the collaboration agreement between IMQ and the University of Deusto consolidates the academic and healthcare relationship between both entities and enables future healthcare professionals to complete the training and acquisition of the competencies required in the official study plan.
It also contemplates the exchange of knowledge and collaboration in teaching activities and research projects between the University of Deusto and the IMQ Group centers.
