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The study of medicine and related natural disciplines in European universities is conducted at a high scientific level. In Europe, high demands are placed on medical workers: both for theoretical training and for professional skills, therefore, the requirements for medical departments of universities are similar.
To make a correct diagnosis, the doctor must win over the patient, inspire confidence. Therefore, in addition to medical skills, high requirements are imposed on the ability to communicate with people. In European universities, students of medical specialties are taught to treat patients correctly, to solve medical problems, taking into account medical and human ethics.
Treatment of patients in the clinic is a task for the medical team, where everyone works for the result, therefore, time and attention is also given to teaching teamwork. The ability to work with a computer is also important, since Western clinics are equipped with sophisticated modern technology, many processes are computerized.
Medical laboratories at universities receive the latest equipment as they prepare the future of medicine. Sometimes not all clinics are equipped with such equipment. The main emphasis in training is on working with real patients, so universities with medical departments have their own hospitals, where students work together with experienced specialists.
Examples of possible specializations in Europe:
- Obstetrics
- Alternative medicine
- Dietetics
- Health care
- Consulting
- Medicine and safety
- Nursing
- General medicine
- Ophthalmology
- Psychotherapy
- Dentistry
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Physiotherapy.
The functions of a nurse in a Western clinic are different from those in Russia. In European, American medicine, this is a specialist with a higher education, endowed with responsibility, who knows how to make decisions. The nursing position in Western hospitals is respected and well paid.
In medical schools of universities, in medical departments, along with medical specialists, they train professionals in the field of natural sciences:
- Biomedicine
- Genetics
- Cell biology
- Medical Electronic Engineering
- Molecular biology.
Best Life Sciences & Medicine universities in Europe 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | University of Oxford |
| 2 | University of Cambridge |
| 3 | Imperial College London |
| 4 | UCL |
| 5 | Karolinska Institutet |
| 6 | King's College London |
| 7 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 8 | KU Leuven |
| 9 | The University of Manchester |
| 10 | University of Amsterdam |
| 11 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| 12 | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| 13 | University of Copenhagen |
| 14 | Wageningen University & Research |
| 15 | Ludwig Maximilian Universität München |
| 16 | Sorbonne University |
| 17 | University of Glasgow |
| 18 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 19 | Utrecht University |
| 20 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 21 | Université Paris-Saclay |
| 22 | University of Zurich |
| 23 | University of Bristol |
| 24 | University of Nottingham |
| 25 | University of Birmingham |
| 26 | Ghent University |
| 27 | Uppsala University |
| 28 | Leiden University |
| 29 | Technical University of Munich |
| 30 | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 31 | University of Liverpool |
| 32 | Université Paris Cité |
| 33 | Queen Mary University of London |
| 34 | Newcastle University |
| 35 | University of Helsinki |
| 36 | University of Groningen |
| 37 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin |
| 38 | University of Göttingen |
| 39 | University of Milan |
| 40 | Medical University of Vienna |
| 41 | University of Leeds |
| 42 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 43 | University of Oslo |
| 44 | Lund University |
| 45 | Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
| 46 | University of Basel |
| 47 | University of Southampton |
| 48 | Università di Padova |
| 49 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna |
| 50 | University of Bern |
