During the master’s Health, Ageing and Society you will do an internship of minimum 10 weeks on a scientific research topic. The internship can be done in The Netherlands or abroad. The line Research and Evidence (R&E) is designed to help you prepare for writing your research application and performing your scientific internship, from searching systematically for scientific information, critical appraisal of the literature, forming a valid research question, designing and executing your own study, and performing the data analyses yourself. Medical students can obtain an exemption for the internship if they combine their 16 weeks medicine academic internship (‘wetenschapsstage’) with the HAS internship.

The study Health, Ageing and Society is associated with the focus area Lifecourse of the LUMC. This includes fundamental scientific research in the biological mechanisms of ageing and also research on the social issues of ageing and policies around the elderly.