Altern vs BiHilo

Covers company structure and roles, sales, regulatory affairs, public tenders, quality and GMP/ISO 13485, medical affairs and MSL, product and application specialist work, marketing and CRM — taught as sector vocabulary rather than academic theory.

Every student gets a tutor with calls roughly every two weeks, practical hard- and soft-skill exercises and support narrowing down which medical-sector role suits them, capped at about ten active students per tutor.

Sessions and mentoring come from people currently employed at medtech and pharma companies including Menarini, Roche, Orthofix, Johnson & Johnson and Bristol Myers Squibb, plus tenders, regulatory and quality specialists.

A three-minute questionnaire maps a graduate's personality and strengths to sector roles such as commercial, regulatory affairs, tenders, quality, medical affairs or technical support.