University Division of Internal Medicine
The Clinic for Internal Medicine consists of 9 departments, including one clinical department and one outpatient department. All departments can accommodate 240 hospitalized patients, 19 of whom are in the intensive care units.
The entire Clinic for Internal Medicine employs 450 staff, including 77 specialists in internal medicine and internal medicine subspecialities, 22 resident doctors and 300 graduate and intermediate nurses.
Twenty-seven doctors from the entire Clinic of Internal Medicine have a doctorate, and among those habilitated at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Maribor are 10 assistant professors and 4 full professors.
The occupancy rate of hospital beds is almost 95%, we have between 12,000 and 13,000 hospitalisations per year and the average length of stay of patients is 7.3 days. Last year, we carried out 157,660 outpatient specialist treatments.
We organise several specialist conferences every year, including the traditional "From practise for practise" conference, which is aimed at internists and general practitioners and was held for the 33rd time in 2024.
The staff at the Clinic of Internal Medicine carry out intensive educational and scientific research activities and work very closely with the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Health of the University of Maribor. We also take care of the training of interns and residents and also offer clinical exercises for students of the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Health of the University of Maribor.
Specialists from the Clinic for Internal Medicine take part in various committees of the Medical Association and the Medical Society and are members of the examination committees for assistant doctor and specialist examinations.
