The new DIMEC of the University of Bologna was born from the merger of the Department of Specialist, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine (DIMES) and the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC): an imposing structure in terms of size, scientific wealth and clinical potential, destined to relaunch the reality of university medicine in the region and in the country
born the new Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC) of the University of Bolognadestiny from the merger between the current Department of the same name and the Department of Specialist, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine (DIMES). The union of the two Departments, voted unanimously from the two pre-existing structures and approved by the University bodies, gives life to the probably largest and most scientifically impactful Department of the clinical field among all Italian universities.
The vast majority of university professors who will join the new DIMEC are already carrying out their research, training and assistance activities at the University Hospital – Policlinico di Sant’Orsola. Looking ahead, a significant number of members of the new DIMEC will carry out their activities at the AUSL of Romagna. The merger therefore makes it possible to create a single Department which includes all the university components in the clinical field belonging to the General Hospital and, in perspective, to the Romagna AUSL, currently divided into several structures.
The new DIMEC has an eminently clinical vocation and has the objective of carrying out all activities related to disease research and the transfer of related knowledge and skills directly to prevention, diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation, as well as related training activities.
More specifically, the following disciplinary areas will merge into the new DIMEC:
– Area of internal medicine and specialist medicines;
– Area of general surgery and specialist surgery;
– Women’s and children’s health area (medical and surgical);
– Area of diagnostic medicines (Radiology, Pathological Anatomy, Clinical Pathology, Laboratory Technical Sciences);
– Translational medicine area (preclinical research to characterize the mechanisms that generate the pathologies and investigate the possible options for therapy);
– Area of public health.
The merger will ensure:
– policies of staff recruitment and you investment for large areas by pursuing more ambitious and longer-term oriented objectives;
– programming strategies agreed with the Region, the General Hospital and the AUSL of Romagna for a full synergy between assistance activities and research and training activities;
– a planning of the large research infrastructures available to the Department with particular reference to the project of the biomedical tower;
– and better coordination with the Health Authorities and in particular with the Polyclinic in the planning and management of clinical trials;
– unitary planning and management of training activities at degree courses and specialization schools;
– the efficient management of spaces and infrastructures in support of Unibo’s clinical and pre-clinical activities at the Healthcare Trusts.
“The will to give life to a similar Department”, declared the Magnificent Rector, John Molari“testifies in the first place the awareness of the complexity of the challenges that universities and public research centers have to face in biomedical and clinical research, challenges that push us to combine our best energies and to seek strong institutional collaborations. At the same time it is a testimony of courage and generosity on the part of medical colleagues who have decided to face these challenges by overcoming particularisms and positional rents”. “In harmony with this testimony and in respect of reciprocal competences”, continues the Rector, ” we hope that the regional health service will also take decisions that allow for more shared planning and management solutions that favor continuity of care and stronger synergies in the fields of research and training in the reorganization of the welfare structures”.
