The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka was founded in 1955 and in the past six decades, it has grown into a highly educational and scientific institution with an enviable reputation in Croatia and abroad, of multiple significance for this region, as well as for our entire Homeland.
The Faculty of Medicine is also a place where the educational, professional and scientific-research activities are parallely performed and developed. We are proud to emphasize that during their studies and through an integrated approach, our students acquire subject knowledge, skills and competencies for their future job activity, as well as the ability of independent thinking, critical evaluation, problem solving skills and the ability to deal with development and scientific work, while respecting the highest ethical standards. Apart from the quality of the educational process and the pleasant study environment, studying in Rijeka is really enjoyable for the various sports and social activities organised by the Students Organisations, as well as for the pleasant Mediterranean and Central European envirnoment that our town offers.

Therefore I invite you to visit our Faculty, get acquainted with the possibilities we offer and choose one of our study programmes. Furthermore, I wish to extend my invitation to all those who are interested to establish a common cooperation on one of the scientific-research or technological projects carried out at our Faculty.

Prof. Tomislav Rukavina, M.D., PhD.

MISSION

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka is a public training and scientific institution, whose mission is the education of students of medicine, dental medicine and sanitary engineering, with the aim to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent diseases, to maintain and improve health, as well as the patients’ healthcare and rehabilitation. Te educational process is closely connected with the scientific research in the scientific area of biomedicine and healthcare, but also in the interdisciplinary scientific areas, whose results and findings necessarily integrate in the educational process, with the purpose of a lifelong and sustainable development of the society we live in.

VISION

The vision of the Faculty of Medicine is that of a continuous development, with the scope to place itself, in the local and international envirnoment, as a clearly recognisable and competitive high educational institution, closely connected and adapted to the requests of the local and wider community. The strategic development concept is the training of staff who will be recognised for the acquired knowledge and skills based primarily on the learning result, with a continuous quality improvement in all the working areas. In this context, the Faculty will bond even more with the leading local and international institutions in the field of healthcare, high education and science, in order to ensure to its students, teachers and all the other employees, conditions for an even better professional prosperity, that will contribute to the further development of the Faculty, University and society we live in. In the area od scientific-research work, we see the Faculty as a scientific centre for biomedical and interdisciplinary researches, in compliance with the European concept of „smart specialisations“, increasingly oriented towards an applied and applicable science, especially in the field of translation research in medicine, as well as the starting point for the introduction of modern scientific findings in the daily medical practice.