The Teaching Unit of Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol is one of the four hospital teaching units of the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, together with Hospital del Mar, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron. It was started up in the 1985-86 academic year, and is now fully consolidated.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth years of the Degree in Medicine are taught in the unit, following the 1993 syllabus (revised in 1999). Also taught there are 58 doctoral courses and one Master’s programme, belonging to several university departments. More than 200 people study at the Teaching Unit of the hospital.

In 2005, the students have moved into new premises in one of the buildings ceded by Badalona City Council. The new Teaching Unit has three times the space it had previously within the hospital, which had become cramped as the range of theoretical and practical tuition grew. This had led to the dispersion of some physical and material resources that the unit needed. As a result, the change of premises has spelt a definite improvement for students, faculty and administrative and service staff alike. As well as extra space, the new unit features highly advanced facilities. It comprises 3 laboratories, a classroom with 36 microscopes, a classroom for clinical skills, 3 seminar rooms, 1 multipurpose classroom and 5 conventional ones, plus a lecture hall, a computer room and 9 tutorial rooms. In addition, the move has opened up the possibility of incorporating new health science studies. In this way a veritable Faculty of Medicine has been born in Badalona.