The Department of Experimental and Health Sciences is committed to the teaching quality as well as the educative objectives of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.

This Faculty was born on the premises of a common and innovative project which was initiated by the Dean under the support of a technical unit. This project has been very successful in achieving excellent teaching of generic and specific competencies of the Faculty graduates. The teaching of Department members has been repeatedly recognized by several prizes awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (four Vicens Vives awards in 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2013) as well as the Spanish Government (Prize to the Teaching Innovation in 2006).

 

The degree in Human Biology began in 1998 with an innovative teaching methodology. Small size classes, problem-based learning, student tutoring, high content of practical skills and continued evaluation were combined for high-quality education.

DCEXS study programmes became the reference at UPF because of the implementation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) methodology. According to the U-Ranking 2017-2018 (Fundación BBVA-Ivie, which integrates indicators in teaching, research and technological innovation), the UPF is the 1st university in Europe. Furthermore, in the Times Higher Education ranking (2018) it is the 17 th highest ranked university in the world among those under 50 years of age; and 1 st Spanish university (position 140 worldwide and 60 in Europe). Regarding the World University Rankings 2017-2018 by Subject, the UPF is the 2nd university in Spain for clinical, pre-clinical and health.

Finally, our Medicine students have obtained excellent resident positions at the national contest (around 80% of them are consistently ranked in the 1st and 2nd quartiles), which means to always be placed among the top 5 Spanish universities. Moreover, our centre has been considered as the first university in our country for the obtention of the MD degree (BBVA Foundation) in the last two years.