Our core tasks
Our mission is together to improve people’s health and create the healthcare of tomorrow. In this we focus on our four core tasks that are inextricably interwoven:
Care
We offer patients qualitative and effective care according to the most recent insights, in line with our care profile. This includes care for which we have a statutory duty, such as level 1 trauma care and care to patients with rare diseases via our expertise centers for rare diseases , care within our six focal points , and complex care (such as multi-specialist or multi-diagnostic care). In addition, based on this specific care profile, we play a clearly distinctive role in our region . We provide knowledge and innovation for our partners, for example for healthcare in the neighborhood and prevention in the Health Hub Utrecht including GGD. In the region we collaborate intensely on acute care and establish agreements for various components of medical specialist care (vascular surgery, oncology, and cardiothoracic surgery). We provide our care in a network model wherever we can (including with our fixed partners St. Antonius Hospital, Meander MC, and Diakonessenhuis), where we as UMC Utrecht play a primary role in complex and tertiary healthcare. Through our research we are the innovation driver for the region, which means that we tackle innovation together with regional partners, citizens, patients, and students and bring it back to the region as fast as possible so that patients can get optimal benefit from them. Collaboration with patients is our basis here, so that we can give patients the care that suits them. We are also making our care as sustainable as possible. Read more about our impact for patients .
Research
We do scientific research, with narrow links between our basic research and the more applied and clinical studies. Our research is condensed in six multidisciplinary programs (focal points). Our healthcare is also integrated therein. In this way new discoveries and knowledge can benefit the patient fast, whereby we bring about the healthcare of tomorrow. An important basis for our research is questions from our patients and from society. And we are looking at ways in which to make our research more sustainable . Read more about our research for the healthcare of tomorrow.
Education and training programs
We offer training for our students and (bio)medical researchers, doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals via our principles of The New Utrecht School:
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Inter-professional and interdisciplinary training
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Patient participation
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Inclusion and diversity
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Translational medicine and life sciences
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Resilience and wellbeing
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Planetary Health
We are thus training top professionals who contribute to knowledge development in and for healthcare, for now and for tomorrow. For example via the new interdisciplinary bachelor program in Healthcare, Health and Society , and the master’s program in Medical Humanities , which we are offering together with the Medical faculty. We involve our students and patients in the development of our education. We offer scope for development and a climate of continuous renewal. Read more about our impact for students .
Valorization
At UMC Utrecht we endeavor to turn acquired knowledge into new diagnostic opportunities, treatments, and preventative interventions that can also be applied in daily practice. We therefore support researchers and entrepreneurs in bringing knowledge and innovation to the market. To go from a concept to a start-up, we help for instance with: the protection of intellectual property, guaranteeing of integrity, obtaining of the necessary licenses, and acquiring of funding for the start-up. Read more about what we do in terms of valorization .
