USZ - University of Szeged
Hungary
In 1775 Empress Maria Theresa established the medical faculty at the Bathori University in Kolozsvar (Cluj, Romania). The university was reorganised at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy as József Ferenc University in 1872 and it moved to Szeged after the World War I in 1921. Nowadays the university has 10 faculties (approximately 20.000 students) including the Faculty of Medicine. The medical faculty consists of 51 different departments, the stuff consists of 62 full professors, 72 associate professors, 150 assistant professors, 26 senior scientific advisors and 530 instructors and research associates. The task of the faculty is represented by three different fields: education, research work and prevention-treatment of patients.
The Department of Forensic Medicine as a part of the Medical Faculty has altogether 24 employers including 7 physicians, one biologist and one toxicologist. Three of the academic stuff have Ph.D. degree. The graduate teaching activity is carried out during the 5th year for medical, dental and law students. There is also a postgraduate teaching for physicians. The expert activity includes forensic autopsies, histological and toxicological investigations, DNA acid investigations in criminal and paternity cases as well as different expertises for the police and the courts. The research activity is focused on forensic pathology, epidemiology in the field of DNA, traffic medicine, the role of alcohol, licit and illicit drugs in traffic. Several Hungarian and international grants were won during the last ten years first of all in the field of traffic medicine. The results were presented in scientific periodicals, local and international conferences partly organised by the department.