Mentor programme for the phases: Study entry, transition to the clinical phase, degree completion; Skills Lab, simulation patient programme for teaching and for carrying out practical exams (Mini CEX, OSCE); core communication training; one week emergency medicine summer academy; subject tutorial programme (peer teaching) for the first and second phase, central final degree examinations for 1st to 3rd clinical semesters; central, modern teaching and studying building with 24 seminar rooms, a simulation arena and a lecture theatre; learning platform Moodle with recordings of lectures and teaching videos.

Modern "Skills Lab" with six dedicated rooms in which students practise the hand movements of their future professional life. "SimArena: Simulation of realistic operation scenarios on a semi-circular screen spanning 270 degrees with image and sound possible. Use of a teaching and learning management system in which all exercises can be documented in picture and sound via permanently installed cameras in the rooms. Examination and treatment situations with simulation patients of the simulation patient programme. Virtual dissection table of the company Anatomage, learning in groups or invividual learning.

Karls-Universität Prag, Tschechien; Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spanien; Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessaloniki, Griechenland; Huazhong Universität für Wissenschaft und Technologie Wuhan, VR China; Fudan University Shanghai, VR China; Staatlichen Medizinischen Akademie Nishnij Nowgorod, Russland

With regard to specific research fields, the Faculty of Medicine focuses on cardiovascular diseases, immunology and infectiology, oncology, translational neuro- and behavioural sciences, and transplantation. These key topics have been strengthened by the inter-disciplinary nature of the basic research and clinically-orientated science in numerous research associations. The faculty is the spokesperson for two SFBs, SFB/TRR 289 "Treatment Expectation" and SFB/TRR 296 "Local Control of Thyroid Hormone Action".

The character of the campus at the Essen university clinic with all the essential institutions in one location – clinics as well as preclinic-theoretical and clinical institutes – enables the excellent linking of theoretical and practical knowledge. Particular focus is placed on the targeted promotion of the next generation of academics. In addition to the internal research promotion programme IFORES, two programmes are particularly noteworthy: The Mentoring programme MediMent and the Graduate School of Biomedical Science BIOME.