Bachelor Technical Medicine

At UT, you will be trained to become a 'Technical Doctor'. In other words, you will be a clinician with technical skills. You will be much closer to the patient than, say, a biomedical technologist or a medical engineer - and upon completion of the Master's in Technical Medicine, you will be able to register as a Clinical Technologist in the Dutch BIG register and be authorised to carry out a number of medical procedures independently in Dutch healthcare. The programme is referred to as Clinical Technology as well, but we think the name Technical Medicine suits the programme better, which is why UT has also continued to use this original name.

Everything around Technical Medicine is concentrated in one place at the University of Twente. You will be taught in the TechMed Centre on our campus: a leading research institute that aims to improve healthcare with innovative, personalised technology. You will work together with fellow students, researchers, medics and external partners on technical-medical innovations. The simulation and training centre is at the heart of the Techmed Centre. In this simulated, safe learning environment, there's plenty of opportunity for you as a student to experiment, make mistakes and learn!

Each module, you will work on a team project, directly applying the knowledge you have gained to a real-life medical case. This is how the Twente Education Model works: a unique way of studying that you will only find at UT. The programme is structured in such a way that in each quartile you learn about a new subsystem of the human body, investigating and discovering how different technologies contribute to diagnosis or treatment. On the one hand, as a physician, you will learn all about anatomy, physiology and pathology, while as a technologist - with the help of a lot of mathematics, physics and biology - you will become familiar with the workings of, for example, light, electricity, sound and radiation.

Education at the University of Twente is known to be personal and informal, and this Bachelor's is no different. Besides, healthcare is a people-oriented sector, so it comes as no surprise that we pay a lot of attention to both your professional and personal growth. We work intensively with you as a student on your development on three fronts: qualification (acquiring professional knowledge and skills), socialisation (learning to act responsibly in social contexts), and personal development (independent, creative and (self-)critical thinking and acting).

You will find all this in a nice, small-scale educational environment, characterised by the informal and accessible atmosphere between teachers and students. You can always approach someone with your questions and there's a lot of room for personal development. Furthermore, together with our study association Paradoks, we continuously improve our education and organise all kinds of study-related activities that help you grow personally and professionally.