SkillsLab with one-week emergency medical summer academy; Simulation patient programme for teaching and conducting practical examinations (OSCE); longitudinal communication curriculum; pre-clinical and clinical examination course; Integration of clinical aspects in the pre-clinical to develop learning spirals; central final examinations in the first. to third clinical semester; E-exams using an iPad; central, modern teaching and studying building with 24 seminar rooms, simulation arena and lecture theatre; Learning platform Moodle offers recordings of lectures and teaching videos

Erasmus+ in collaboration with 20 partner universities; Cooperation agreements on student exchange with universities in the People's Republic of China and Colombia, among others; Further scientific training based on cooperation agreements with, among others, the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, as well as at the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville.; Close cooperation with the International Medical College in continuing dental education

Karls-Universität Prag, Tschechien; Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spanien; Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessaloniki, Griechenland; Huazhong Universität für Wissenschaft und Technologie Wuhan, VR China; Fudan University Shanghai, VR China; Staatlichen Medizinischen Akademie Nishnij Nowgorod, Russland

Latest projection technology in all lecture halls including interactive smartboards; Possibility of live-streaming from operating rooms to teaching rooms; Lecture halls for hybrid courses including Zoom and Recording equipment; Hybrid histology (digital and analogue) with learning management system

Research focuses on heart and circulatory diseases, immunology and infectiology, oncology, translational neuro- and behavioural sciences and transplantation.; Numerous research networks due to the interdisciplinary nature of the basic research and clinically-oriented academics; Spokesperson in two CRCs, CRC/TRR 289 "Treatment Expectation" and CRC/TRR 296 "Local Control of Thyroid Hormone Action".

Linking theoretical and practical knowledge through the character of the campus at the Essen university clinic with all the essential institutions in one location; Vice-dean of junior academics and diversity with support geared toward junior academics; Internal research funding programme IFORES; Mentoring programme MediMent; BIOME Graduate School of Biomedical Science; Graduate school in experimental research ELAN