Facilities
The Faculty
Facilities
Three different building complexes are used for the activities of the Department: A. Administration Building, B. Medicine Building and C. University Hospital.
The Chairman’s Office and the Secretariat of the Faculty, as well as the Dean’s Office of the School of Health Sciences are located in the Administration Building.
- Secretariats of Obstetrics-Gynaecology, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Urology, Paediatrics, Child Nephrology, Dermatology and Pulmonary, are located in the Administration Building.
- Secretariats of Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Cardiosurgery, Anesthesiology, Endocrinology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery, are located in the Medicine Building.
- The Laboratories of Anatomy-Embryology-Histology, Physiology, Biology, Medical Physics, Biological Chemistry, Microbiology, HygieneEpidemiology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Clinical Radology, Forensic Toxicology, Immunology and Medical Psychiatry, are located in the Medicine Building.
- The Departments and respective Laboratories are at the University Hospital.
Major Facilities of the Faculty
Library & Information Centre
The LIC of the University of Ioannina (LIC-UI) is housed in the new building in the centre of the university campus with six floors and a surface (14.000 m2) that makes it the largest academic library in our country.
The LIC-UI possesses an extensive collection composed of 400,000 books and 1,000 current journal subscriptions, collections, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc., all relevant to the courses taught in the University’s Departments. Its digital collections consists of around 14,000 electronic journals (full text access), numerous databases, hundreds of e-books, old collections, books in Cyrillic and Arabic writing, etc. People with visual impairments can have access to an extensive book collection in Braille writing system along with the necessary equipment for its use.
The LIC-UI website contains all the information needed, including access to the online catalogue of the University of Ioannina as well as to its rich information resources. At the beginning of each academic year the Central Library organizes training seminars addressed to all members of the academic community.
Museum of the History of Medicine
The Museum of the History of Medicine of the University of Ioannina was founded at the University of Ioannina in 1995. Since its establishment, it has been tirelessly collecting artifacts related to the History of Medicine, exceeding presently the number of 20,000 objects, which are displayed at the 12 different areas of the museum.
The Museum’s collection exhibits significant medical artifacts from antiquity, including among others Dioskourian illustrations of pharmaceutical plants and herbs used at modern times, a small chapel with icons of 65 male doctors and 12 male doctors who obtained sainthood, coins, banknotes, medical comic strips and, most notably, a full collection of 450 Greek stamps on medical topics.
Animal Lab
The Animal Laboratory of the Department of Medicine has been operating since 1982, and covers the educational and research needs of the University of Ioannina. The funding of a series of projects either by the University of Ioannina itself or by European Development Programs (STRIDE-Hellas), has allowed the creation of conditions capable of ensuring the proper living of laboratory animals.
The laboratory has a license to operate a facility for breeding (EL33-BIObr01), supplying (EL33-BIOsup01) and experimentation (EL33BIO-exp01) animals for scientific purposes.