Norrland's University Hospital

Norrland's University Hospital

University Hospital of Umeå, in Swedish Norrlands universitetssjukhus (Nus), is the major hospital in northern Sweden, situated in Umeå. The hospital employs 5,600 people.

It is also a teaching hospital for Umeå University, with the Faculty of Medicine as the responsible authority; 13 departments and 11 academic programmes. Within the faculty there are about 2,860 undergraduate and 450 postgraduate students and about 1,020 staff, among them about 500 teachers/researchers.

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