It is well-known that internal medicine was based, from its inception, on the clinical study – semiological, in which the physician would use only anamnesis, observation, palpation, percussion and auscultation for diagnosis procedures. In time, the technology completed the diagnosis procedures with laboratory tests, modern imaging techniques, bacteriology, histopathology, genetics tests, aiming to confirm or refute the suspected diagnosis. Still, the importance of semiology remained unchanged.

The interest of the clinicians in obtaining an improved diagnosis, as a result of the knowledge gained through constant study and diligently practicing medical profession, managed to instill among students and young doctors a true passion for solving the mysteries of semiology.

The Medical Semiology Department of the “St. Pantelimon” Clinical Emergency Hospital inherited the leading figures of the founders of the department, respecting their work in scientific papers and unique clinical case studies, and continued the tradition by publishing numerous papers in reputable journals, specialty books as well as the participation in national and international congresses and conferences.

A major concern for the Semiology Department, along with the continuous training of the teaching staff, is teaching students professional skills and a logical and organized mindset based on theoretical and practical knowledge.

Moreover, the Semiology Department would like to inspire the future specialists with the passion for profession, devotion, self-sacrifice, traits that ennoble the figure of a future physician.

To accomplish these goals, along with responsibly preparing every lecture and practical class, each faculty of the “St. Pantelimon” Clinical Emergency Hospital adopts modern teaching methods and makes use of the advanced equipment of the hospital: ultrasound and ECG machines, ECG holter monitors, stress tests bicycle, projectors and computers.

Lectures and practical classes are structured progressively. The way a teaching physician shares his own experience is very important because not even the greatest book can convey a way of thinking and behaving equal to the one acquired through assisting rounds and discussing clinical cases with the attending physician.

The course includes great practical applications, providing skills such as sense of observation, medical mindset and approach which are necessary for a good practitioner.

The research activity addresses topics of major interest for the current pathology, attempting to improve the diagnosis and treatment. These topics are derived from the emergency profile of the hospital. There is a concern for innovation and development in acute heart failure, acute coronary syndromes, pulmonary thromboembolism and tromboembolic disease, cardiac dysfunction in other acute extra-cardiac conditions, major complications of hypertension, atrial fibrillation and thromboembolic risk. We aim to integrate the standard knowledge in the multitude of modern paraclinical tests, by applying the optimal algorithms for the evaluation of critically ill patients.