A Host can be a General Practitioner with educational experience who would like to host an international GP Trainee or Junior GP (< 5 years of specialisation) in their GP practice.

Hosts should ensure that they have approval of other members of the GP practice / clinic who will be affected by an exchange.

Visitors are strongly encouraged to undertake bilateral exchanges, therefore trainees may wish to offer their practice as a host practice. In order to do so the trainee needs to agree with their trainer that the trainer will act as the principle host for the exchange.

In order to upload your GP practice information to the VdGM website:

1. Register on the VdGM website, requesting access to the Hippokrates Host section by emailing the webmaster at vdgmwebmaster@vdgm.eu. 
2. Then register the practice under the 'Register/Edit Host Practice' section at www.vdgm.eu/index.cfm/spKey/exchange.my_practice.html. 
3. Notify your National Exchange Co-ordinator that you have done this. Once he/she confirms this your practice will be available on the website, and potential visitors will contact you.

• It may be helpful to specify what dates you are able to host and the number of times you can host in the following 12 months. 

• If you are offering to host as you would like to visit a specific country in return please specify this.

Hosts have no obligation to host all those who express an interest, however it is expected you respond to initial queries within 14 days.

Please note that depending on national arrangements in some countries queries will pass through National Exchange Co-ordinator/Team before reaching the host practice.