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.

The University Hospital Aachen (UKA) combines in its singularity all mechanisms of supplying the patient, the entire medical faculty and the dentistry under one roof. In this enormous building is a place for the common research of engineers, scientists and physicians. At the moment co-operate 59 professors, 824 scientific assistants and 4347 non-scientific employees in 33 clinical departments, 21 institutes and in the administration of the UKA. The University Hospital has 1.510 beds.

The implementation of the idea to unit teaching, research and medical care under one roof is unique in Germany. Since purchase of the clinical complex in the year 1984 almost all institutions of the Faculty of Medicine find here their place. That means clinic, theoretical and clinical-theoretical institutes, research establishments, lecture rooms, schools for specialised occupations of the health service and public utilities like pharmacy, kitchen, laundry, central sterilisation, archive and stock. Approximately 5.500 employees work in the University Hospital Aachen. Annually approximately 48.000 in-house patient and 111.000 outhouse patient are treated in this hospital.

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

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Annual reports (PDF)
• Annual report 2008
• Annual report 2006

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Blood donation in the UKA