Patient contact from the first phase of study; Promotion of teamwork; Development of empathy; Acquisition of communication skills; practice-based longitudinal course for, among other things, standardised, systematic medical history; physical examination and documentation; Centres for Teaching and Study (ZeUS); E-learning, sign language; Course on high altitude medicine; Emergency week practical training; Simulation Training; Actors portraying patients. MeCuM science longitudinal curriculum (scientific work); Oncology curriculum

Student excellence programme (MeCuM-StEP); exchange with Jimma University in Ethiopia; students acquire intercultural competencies with IMECU (International Medical Culture); OFIF – orientation and specialised communication courses with a cross-cultural focus; international research scholarships; exchange with Brazil and USA; Oncology winter school; Neurology winter school; Study Buddy Programme. International cooperations such as GAME and EUGLOH

Sorbonne Université, Paris, Frankreich; Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Norwegen; King's College London, Vereinigtes Königreich; Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz; Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Prag, Tschechische Republik; Jimma University, Jimma, Äthiopien; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, China; Weill Cornell Medical College, NYC, USA; Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Bogotá, Kolumbien; University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Independent study centre ZeUS: Includes three hubs where students have the opportunity to learn and perfect practical skills and techniques using modern equipment and models. In simulation rooms, students also have the opportunity to practice ward rounds, examinations and other hands-on aspects of their studies.

The Medical Faculty and the clinic of the LMU Munich are two of the most active university medicine research centres in Europe. The faculty is often the national leader in international research rankings. The LMU is the only university in Germany which is involved in all six German centres for health research; the Faculty of Medicine in four clusters of excellence and two graduate schools of the Excellence Initiative. The Clinic and Faculty house 14 Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios of the DFG (German Research Foundation) and numerous research projects from the European Research Council.

Wide choice of specialist fields; Freedom for academic activity / stays abroad; Mentoring programmes; Further development of teaching in the Institute of Didactics/Educational Research; Access to AMBOSS/Thieme; Learning platform moodle; Doctoral thesis days (DoktaMed); ZeUS independent study centre; Continuing education of lecturers through workshops; Milestones / names from the history of medicine at the LMU: X-ray, Alzheimer, Pettenkofer (founder of the teaching of hygiene), Nussbaum (aseptic surgery), Butenandt (sexual hormones), Lynen (cholesterol).