Department V: Internal Medicine I

Department V: Internal Medicine I of the “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timișoara includes five university clinics: Hematology, Occupational Medicine, Internal Medicine IV (CFR), Medical Semiology I, Medical Semiology II, as well as an Administrative Secretariat Unit. The department’s human resources consist of 60 teaching staff members.

The educational base for the five university clinics consists of clinical wards and units operating in pavilions of the Timisoara Municipal Emergency Clinical Hospital, as well as within the CFR University Hospital of Timișoara.

Students from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of the Faculty of Medicine attend courses and internships in these university clinics, as well as students from the Faculties of Dental Medicine and Nursing. Resident doctors in medical specialties are also trained here.

By bringing together the five university clinics within the same department, their members have the opportunity to get to know one another and to apply their expertise for interdisciplinary collaboration. The easy access to information, the application of evidence-based medicine, the knowledge and experience of each teacher, the specific endowments, some of the top, give the possibility to carry out research topics of common interest.

The staff of Department V aims to train true doctors, dedicated to their patients and the medical profession, to induce in students a love for the disciplines studied, to provide a solid theoretical basis and appropriate clinical practical skills. Students are encouraged to work, to ask questions, to collaborate in activities at the patient’s bedside and in research, in order to form their medical thinking, based on study, work and exercise.

Each university clinic, with its particular focus, contributes to the training of young doctors. The knowledge and experience gained during the student period will greatly contribute to the correct medical decision in the subsequent activity. Respect and compassion for the sick person are gained by being close to the patient, listening to him and observing him carefully during the anamnesis, a key element common to all medical specialties. Young doctors need to understand that the patient is a partner in the decision-making process.

“The doctor’s word, his figure, often matters more than the miracle drug.” (Iuliu Hatieganu)

“Science is the truth; it is the knowledge and use of the forces of nature for the man’s happiness.” (Victor Babes)