Health, Medicine and Life Sciences Maastricht

Maastricht University, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Description
The Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences started on January 1st, 2007. The faculty was the result of a merger between the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine.

The Faculty of Medicine was the first faculty to be established at Maastricht University. The University was officially established on the 9th of January 1976, although the first medical students began their students began their studies in September 1974. The Faculty of Medicine was the second in the world that applied the Problem-Based Learning method. The other faculties of Maastricht University, i.e. Arts and Culture, Economics and Business Administration, General Sciences, Health Sciences, Law, and Psychology adopted educational systems and research organisations akin to that of the Faculty of Medicine.