Department of Medicine - DIMED

The mission of the Department of Medicine is to educate medical students, doctoral students, and post-PhD fellows to the highest professional standards, to identify pathophysiological mechanisms, and to prevent and treat disease.

The Department is home to personnel involved in both basic science and health care. The Divisions include: Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Pharmacology, Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Dermatology, Physiology, Nephrology, Hepatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hematology, Rheumatology, and Nutrition.

The main areas are medical education, basic research, and clinical research. The Department is campus of 103 full-time professors, 60 resident physicians, and 145 doctoral students. In 2011 the Department received almost 4 million euros in funding from national and international, public and private institutions.