For partners 
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 | King's College London |
| 6 | Karolinska Institutet |
| 7 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 8 | The University of Manchester |
| 9 | KU Leuven |
| 10 | University of Copenhagen |
| 11 | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| 12 | Universität Heidelberg |
| 13 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| 14 | Wageningen University & Research |
| 15 | University of Glasgow |
| 16 | University of Amsterdam |
| 17 | Utrecht University |
| 18 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 19 | Sorbonne University |
| 20 | ETH Zurich |
| 21 | University of Bristol |
| 22 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 23 | University of Zurich |
| 24 | Université Paris-Saclay |
| 25 | Ghent University |
| 26 | Queen Mary University of London |
| 27 | University of Birmingham |
| 28 | University of Liverpool |
| 29 | University of Nottingham |
| 30 | Technical University of Munich |
| 31 | University of Milan |
| 32 | Université Paris Cité |
| 33 | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 34 | Leiden University |
| 35 | Newcastle University |
| 36 | University of Helsinki |
| 37 | Uppsala University |
| 38 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin |
| 39 | University of Groningen |
| 40 | University of Leeds |
| 41 | Lund University |
| 42 | Maastricht University |
| 43 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 44 | Università di Padova |
| 45 | University of Bern |
| 46 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna |
| 47 | University of Basel |
| 48 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| 49 | University of Göttingen |
| 50 | Sapienza University of Rome |
