Tartu University Clinic
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The Tartu University Clinic is a healthcare and medical teaching service in Tartu
, Estonia
, and a subsidiary of the Tartu University. Its administrative services are located in two buildings on the Puusepa Street; its buildings are located throughout the city of Tartu. As an exception, the Clinic's andrology clinic has a facility in Tallinn, on Gonsiori Street.
The clinic is the largest employer of Tartu
.
The clinic had a pioneering role in study mental deceases as it was the world first university clinic with a psychiatric department. Famous German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin
worked there.
The surgery of the clinic is connected with works of famous Russian surgeons Nikolai Pirogov (worked there in 1836-1840) and Nikolai Burdenko
(worked there in 1906-1918).
Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city of Estonia. In contrast to Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn, Tartu is often considered the intellectual and cultural hub, especially since it is home to Estonia's oldest and most renowned university. Situated 186 km southeast of Tallinn, the...
, Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
, and a subsidiary of the Tartu University. Its administrative services are located in two buildings on the Puusepa Street; its buildings are located throughout the city of Tartu. As an exception, the Clinic's andrology clinic has a facility in Tallinn, on Gonsiori Street.
The clinic is the largest employer of Tartu
Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city of Estonia. In contrast to Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn, Tartu is often considered the intellectual and cultural hub, especially since it is home to Estonia's oldest and most renowned university. Situated 186 km southeast of Tallinn, the...
.
The clinic had a pioneering role in study mental deceases as it was the world first university clinic with a psychiatric department. Famous German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin
Emil Kraepelin
Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist. H.J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, as well as of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Kraepelin believed the chief origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic...
worked there.
The surgery of the clinic is connected with works of famous Russian surgeons Nikolai Pirogov (worked there in 1836-1840) and Nikolai Burdenko
Nikolai Burdenko
Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of the Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army , an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences , an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR , a Hero of Socialist...
(worked there in 1906-1918).