Erasmus MC - Graduate School

Since January 1, 2003, the Academisch Ziekenhuis Rotterdam and Erasmus University’s Faculteit der Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen have become Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam. Founded in 1950, a foundation aimed at educating medical graduates from other medical schools in the Netherlands to be trained as medical doctors.

They receive guidance from committed supervisors and set up their own research. This helps them develop into self-reliant and autonomous scientists who are driven by curiosity. In many of our Research Masters, you will join a research group right from the start and have your own supervisor. 

You are encouraged to learn about the disciplines of your fellow students, for example through an annual symposium. Our students become inspired connectors who work from an interdisciplinary perspective. 

They understand the language of doctors and nurses, engineers and data scientists, and sociologists and economists. Many of them stay on after graduation or do a PhD trajectory in science, while other

We are thinkers who act. Within the Erasmus MC Graduate School, we connect fundamental and practical research to create impact. Here, Dutch and international students develop into trained scientists, and PhD candidates conduct research that makes a difference - for science and for the wider community. 

We measure our success not only in terms of international recognition and scientific publications, but also, crucially, in terms of our impact on the health and well-being of society.  

Our graduates are well prepared to become the future (clinical) research staff at university medical centers, research universities, research institutes, and/or fill staff and policy positions, such as in management of biomedical universities, health care organizations, biomedical and pharmaceutical companies, ministries, EU, and many more. In and outflow is possible at all levels.