Teaching, research and training
For medical and dental students, in-service doctors, and general trainees, optimum training facilities are available at University Hospital Aachen. The UKA is made up of 34 clinical departments and 23 theoretical and clinical institutes. Some 2.700 students of medicine and dentistry are studying at the Medical Faculty of Aachen University of Technology (RWTH). On Floor E, there are six lecture theatres, two of them seating 312, the others seating 160 each. The lecture theatres are equipped with modern media technology. The Audiovisual Media Centre has facilities for live broadcasts - for instance, with direct transmission from operating theatre to lecture theatre. The students´ classrooms are available for conducting laboratory experiments. They are tailor-made for micro-teaching. The University Hospital Aachen lecture theatres are also used for conferences and congresses.
The schools for the health-care professions are located very close to the student facilities. A total of some 375 pupils can be trained in these schools at any one time - specifically, general nursing 150, children´s nursing 45, physiotherapy 80, medical-technical laboratory assistants 16, and speech therapy 60.

Services building
The laundry, the kitchens (including dietary kitchen), the patient record departments, the central sterilizing facilities, the stores, the pharmacy, the waste disposal centre and the technical centre are housed in a service wing. Supplies are brought into the clinics and institutes of the UKA via an automatic transportation system.

Travel informations
• Getting to Aachen 
• Getting to UKA
• Parking

Regular Events in the UKA

Blood donation