There are 28 dedicated hospitals and 17 institutes. Together with their administrative departments, technical services and the Medical School they form the University's Clinical Centre. Each faculty is headed by a dean assisted by a vice dean and sub-dean. The University's Clinical Centre employs some 4.900 scientists and doctors, nurses and orderlies, and other medical and technical staff. The Faculty embraces two disciplines, i.e. human medicine with some 2.700 students and dentistry with some 340 students.
Training is of a high scientific standard as well as being practice oriented.
By 1996 some 400 million marks will have been spent over six years. That makes it easier for students and staff to organise their timetable, and it fosters cooperation. It facilitates cooperation as well as the exchange of ideas between scientists and doctors at institutes and clinics, thereby enhancing interdisciplinary activity and the quality of research and medical practice. With that aim in mind, some clinics have combined to form their own centres, for example the four medical clinics constituting the Centre of Internal Medicine and the four dental clinics of the Centre of Dental, Oral and Orthodontic Care. There is also a Surgical Centre and a Centre of Radiology.