DEPARTMENT AND CLINIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Address: H-1078, Budapest, István u. 2, Hungary
Postal address: H-1400 Budapest, P.O. Box 2, Hungary
Phone: (+36 1) 478 4132
Fax: (+36 1) 478 4137

Short history of the department

The first lectures on internal medicine were given by Vilmos Zlamál in 1852, but a chair position for the field was established only some years later by Ákos Azary.
The golden age of the Department of Internal Medicine began in 1894 when Ferenc Hutyra, former rector of the school, became head of the clinic. Hutyra (head of dept. 1894-1898), József Marek (1901-1935) and Rezsõ Manninger wrote the famous "Internal Diseases and Special Therapy of Domestic Animals", which was translated into 11 languages and became the standard textbook for internal veterinary medicine all over world. Later editions of the book included the contributions of János Mócsy (1935-1961), who followed Marek as head of the department. From the sixties Zoltán Horváth was chairing the department (1962-1984). During this time emphasis was mainly put on heard diseases of farm animals. Ferenc Karsai lead the department between 1984 and 1991. Development of new diagnostic techniques, intensifying of pathophysiological and clinical research, as well as more attention to the diseases of companion animals characterized this period. The latter tendencies were continued after this time, and till the today's activities of the department. An important change in the department’s activity happened in 2001 when the new Clinic for Large Animal was opened 35 km away from the campus. Since then, clinical care of large animals and those of practical teaching are performed there.

Courses

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Teaching facilities

• The Department of Internal Medicine has a small animal hospital, a diagnostic unit for instrumental examination /e.g. ECG, US, endoscopy for small animals/ and a clinicopathological laboratory which serves for examination for all clinics, and an ambulatory clinic for dogs, cats and exotic companion animals.

• The small animal has three sub-units: an intensive care station, a non-infections and an infections section.

• The clinical diagnostic unit has a room for endoscopy on small animals, one for electrocardiography and one for ultrasonography of small animals.

• The clinicopathological laboratory includes two rooms for routine laboratory analyses of the blood, urine, rumen fluid and faeces. It also has a practising laboratory for 20 students with video, slide and overhead projection facilities and a social room for the laboratory staff.

• The building of the Department of Internal Medicine includes a lecture room for 120 students with double-slide projection, video projector, and overhead instrument a built-in videoprojector with computer. This computerised multimedia projection is possible in this lecture room which is shared of course with other departments. The lecture room is also suitable for clinical demonstrations of living patients.