The Radboud University Medical Center (Dutch: ''Radboudumc''), is the teaching hospital affiliated with the

Radboud University Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, , formerly ) is a public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. RU has seven faculties and more than 24,000 students. Established in 1923, Radboud University has consistently been included in ...

, in the city of

Nijmegen Nijmegen ( , ; Nijmeegs: ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the ...

in the eastern-central part of the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. The Radboud University Medical Center was founded in 1956. It changed its name to ''UMC St Radboud'' and transformed to a complete new organization in 1999 by a merger of the ''Academisch Ziekenhuis Nijmegen'' (AZN) (Academic Hospital of Nijmegen) and the medical faculty of the ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'' (Catholic University of Nijmegen), now the Radboud University. Thus, it is a semi-independent medical university and hospital, which is not directly linked to the Radboud University. In 2013 the hospital changed its name to ''Radboudumc'' in Dutch and ''Radboud University Medical Center'' in English. It is one of the largest and leading hospitals of the Netherlands, providing supraregional tertiary care for residents of a large part of the eastern section of the Netherlands. The medical center has about 1,000 beds, employs about 10,000 employees, and offers educational services to about 3,000 students in the following academic courses: * Medicine * Biomedical Sciences * Dentistry * Molecular Mechanisms of Disease * Cognitive Neurosciences

Research

The medical center's infrastructure consists of several technology centers and three research institutes: * Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences * Radboud Institute for Health Sciences * The Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience within the Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and several technology centers The scientists perform cross-disciplinary research regarding 18 clinically relevant research themes.

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* Hospital buildings completed in 1956 Teaching hospitals in the Netherlands Hospitals established in 1999 Academic health science centres 1999 establishments in the Netherlands Buildings and structures in Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen {{Europe-hospital-stub