Faculty of Medicine

We train more than 2200 students in human medicine and dentistry. This ranks us as one of the largest medical faculties in Switzerland. What makes our degree programs unique in terms of content is our strong emphasis on practical relevance, our diversity of subjects, and our high level of innovation. Close links between basic research, the clinics, and engineering sciences create the optimal conditions for cutting-edge medical research and translation.
In addition to the pre-clinical institutes and the School of Dental Medicine, the Faculty includes two university hospitals: Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste (UPD).

Here you will find an overview of all organizational units belonging to the Faculty or in which the Faculty participates.

Our Research

AI-supported detection of cardiac abnormalities

Researchers from the Department of Cardiology have developed an AI-based tool that detects and classifies abnormalities of the coronary arteries in CT images with high precision. This could significantly improve the diagnosis and treatment of rare heart diseases.

More effective treatment for atrial fibrillation

In a recent study led by the Inselspital, the University of Bern, and the Basel University Hospital, a new treatment method, Pulsed Field Ablation, shows promising results. There are fewer arrhythmia recurrences compared to conventional catheter ablation.

Media Release

New insights into the role of nerve cells in gastrointestinal complaints

An international research team led by the Charité Berlin, the Inselspital and the University of Bern has shown for the first time that inflammation damages nerve cells in the intestine. This causes intestinal function to deteriorate, which exacerbates long-term gastrointestinal disorders.

Media Release

Promising new target for combination therapies in cancer

Study by DBMR researchers published in Nature Communications

Media releases of the University of Bern

Our People

Newly appointed: Prof. Angèle Gayet-Ageron

The Faculty welcomes Angèle Gayet-Ageron as the Full Professor for Epidemiology and Public Health and new Director of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM). She assumed her position on April 1, 2025.

Newly appointed: Prof. Brice-Olivier Demory

Brice-Olivier Demory assumed his position as Extraordinary Professor of Planetary Sciences and Opto-Physical Diagnostics, a new interfaculty professorship at the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine.

Interfaculty Extraordinary Professor of Planetary Sciences and Opto-Physical Diagnostics

Newly appointed: Prof. Antje-Christin Knopf

The Faculty of Medicine welcomes Antje-Christin Knopf as the Full Professor of Applied Data Science and Decision Support Systems at sitem-insel and the Department of Radiation Oncology. She assumed her position on March 1, 2025.

Full Professor of Applied Data Science and Decision Support Systems as of March 1, 2025

Miscellaneous News

Submit your project application to the Digitalization Commission

The Digitalization Commission of the University of Bern has launched a call for projects as part of the University's Digitalization Strategy 2030 People in Digital Transformation. Applications from the Faculty of Medicine will go through a pre-selection process. The deadline is May 31, 2025.

Open call of the Swiss National MD-PhD Fellowships Program

For doctoral research training in clinical research or public health

2025 call of the SF Board open until June15

The SF Board is responsible for strategic funding. Its annual project calls serve to implement the Faculty's Strategy 2030 in patient-oriented and translational research. This call will close on June 15, 2025.

Strategic funding for patient-oriented and translational research

Contact

University of Bern
Medizinische Fakultät

Murtenstrasse 11
3008 Bern

Phone: + 41 31 684 00 50
info.meddek@unibe.ch