The Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, established on 1st January 1999, is a joint workplace of the Faculty and the Teaching Hospital in the field of clinical biochemistry, which provides routine as well as specialized clinico-biochemical investigations, undergraduate and postgraduate education, and takes part in the scientific research tasks of the Faculty and Hospital. The Institute is composed of 12 laboratories. A part of the Institute is the Reference Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry of the Ministry of Health, which has an own statute. Educactional activity of the Institute consists in tuition of clinical biochemistry for the 5th year students within the subject of Internal Medicine, when emphasis is put on rational indication and interpretation of laboratory tests.
Clinical biochemistry is taught as an optional subject as well.
The teachers take part in final state examinations in Internal Medicine. Further, biochemistry is read for the students in Bachelor degree programmes, including those in distance courses. For the 2nd and 3rd year students, the Institute provides tuition in clinical biochemistry and laboratory technology. The tuition is predominantly in the seminar form, with a recently increasing deal of practical lab activities. The teachers at the Institute also co-operate in educational activities of the 1st and 2nd Institutes of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry.