About the Faculty
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The Faculty of Medicine was initially established in August 1946. In January 2008 it merged with Faculty of Dentistry.
The two faculties came together as a result of a common goal to make dentistry a more integrated part of the overall concept of health, and to be able to offer a more interdisciplinary approach in our education and research. In addition to medicine and dentistry, the we offer programs of professional studies in pharmacy听补苍诲听dental hygiene, a bachelor programme in聽and human nutrition as well as , biomedicine and global health studies,听among others.
The faculty covers a wide range of research fields. We host one Norwegian Centers of Excellence (SFF),听Bergen centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS) and聽 on research on Parkinson's disease, myeloid leukemia and genom-directed therapy in cancer.聽The infrastructure of the faculty鈥檚 research is organized in a total of eight core facilities.
Faculty of Medicine has a total of about 1200 employees and 1900 students. With the inclusion of it鈥檚 more than 500 Ph.D.-candidates the faculty is one of the biggest contributors to the doctoral education at the University of Bergen.
