University Medical Centre Maribor is the second biggest hospital in Slovenia. It is a public healthcare institution, founded in 1799, providing secondary and tertiary healthcare service in north-eastern Slovenia. The founder of the University Medical Centre Maribor is Republic of Slovenia. The hospital employs more than 3600 staff members, 596 of whom are medical doctors and 1836 associated healthcare professionals. Annually, about 60,000 patients are treated as inpatients and almost 400,000 as outpatients in different sub-speciality units. It serves as a teaching and training facility for the Medical Faculty and Faculty of Health Sciences of University of Maribor, and as a postgraduate teaching and training facility for trainees in all medical subspecialties. The hospital places a great emphasis on scientific research, publicity and pedagogical work.

Department of Oncology

Department of Oncology has been operating at our hospital since 2016. It consists of 3 units: Radiotherapy Unit, Internal Oncology Unit and Palliative Care Unit. Additionally, in the fall of 2021, we actively started involving the mobile palliative team (MPT) in our everyday work. The Department of Oncology is recognized as an exemplary research centre and participates in many international studies. We would like all three units to continue to expand their activities and maintain a high professional level of treatment of cancer patients, as was set when the department had been established, and certainly to continue with research activities. For this purpose, we are also in the process of expanding the department (upgrading the existing building and additional construction of a new building).