University Hospital Charite Berlin

University Hospital Charite Berlin is the largest university clinic in Berlin, with more than 300 years of history. It was established in 1710 by King Frederick I of Prussia and had four Berlin campuses. Charite University Clinic is divided into 17 departments, including more than 100 clinics and institutes. In total, the hospital has 20,900 employees from 119 nationalities. Moreover, University Hospital Charite Berlin has 682,731 outpatients and 123,793 full and partial inpatients a year, which means this hospital treats more patients than any other German university hospital. Furthermore, Hospital Charite Berlin became the first German medical faculty accredited in study and teaching in 2015. Nowadays, it prepares 9,030 students in the field of medicine. The University Hospital Charite Berlin is known for its scientific and clinical research, according to the European Research Council (ERC). The hospital has the top positions in national and international scientific rankings in neuroscience, immunology, oncology, cardiovascular and genetic research. Most German Nobel Prize winners for medicine and physiology come from Charite, including Robert Koch, Hermann Emil Fischer, Paul Ehrlich, Emil Adolf von Behring, Hans Spemann, and others. Moreover, The Charite Hospital cooperates with universities all over the world: Tongji Medical College Wuhan (China), Saitama Medical School (Japan), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (USA), etc. The patients get qualified medical help from experienced doctors at University Clinic Charite Berlin in various medical fields, from dentistry to neurosurgery. In addition, Charite Hospital specialists focus on people with cardiovascular, gastroenterological, tumor, and nephrological diseases. Furthermore, the hospital is engaged in traumatological and reconstructive medicine. Women and their children also get professional treatment in the perinatal center of Charite. Moreover, ophthalmology and otolaryngology are the focal points of the University Hospital Charite Berlin. The hospital is equipped with high-tech devices for each specialty, e. g. , proton therapy for eye tumors.