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Faculty Profile
The Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1966. Today it comprises 36 clinical departments and 19 institutes employing a total of 91 professors. With a few exceptions, they are all located in the university hospital, which was completed in 1984.
A full-service clinic with 1,480 beds, the university hospital is one of Europe’s largest medical institutions and research centres, providing care for about 43,000 inpatients and 136,000 outpatients annually.
The faculty’s research profile benefits from the extraordinary opportunities for collaboration provided by a technical university, with research conducted in the areas of medicine and technology, molecular pathogenesis, and clinical neurosciences.
A high degree of interdisciplinary involvement and increasing levels of external funding have resulted in several research projects, many of them funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). These activities include a collaborative research centre on the mechanisms of inflammation, two international graduate colleges, several research groups, and an Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research (IZKF BIOMAT).
Cross-faculty collaboration is institutionalised in the Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, which is jointly maintained by the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, and the Faculty of Medicine.
In the winter term of 2003/2004, the Faculty of Medicine introduced a model degree programme for all first-year medical students. Rather than concentrating on facts and figures, the programme teaches students to understand the structure, function and pathogenetic principles of organs and organ systems in relation to one another. The goal of this curriculum is to produce university-educated physicians who are capable of building on their expertise and who carry a strong sense of responsibility for their patients.