Medical school
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The medical faculties are institutions of universities for the administration of all institutions necessary for the implementation of medical studies and their entire organization, in particular that of the respective university clinic up to the regulation of the cooperation with possibly affiliated teaching hospitals , foreign university and research institutions and the associated student exchange. Like all faculties of a university, it is headed by an elected dean and has the right to doctorate (Dr. med., Dr. med. Dent.) And habilitation . The actual final exams in the relevant subjects ( state exams ) are taken before state examination commissions.
The courses offered are usually human medicine and dentistry . Veterinary medicine is offered at its own universities and faculties , sometimes also within the framework of agricultural sciences . Research and training in the field of pharmacy has long been separate from the medical faculties, but was developed there.
The School of Salerno ( Schola Medica Salernitana ) is considered to be the oldest medical teaching and research institute of the European Middle Ages. The Monte Cassino monastery maintained a hospital in Salerno for friars who were sick. Crusader ships docked in Salerno to have their sick cared for there. One of the first medical universities in Europe developed from the group of healers, the civitas salernitatis .
As a result, the medical faculty (alongside the philosophical, legal and theological) was one of the four classic faculties of a European university.
In traditional allegorical representations, the medical faculty is symbolized by a staff of Aesculapia and / or a skull .
