The department is responsible for the Biomedical Analyst Programme and also provides teaching in several other programmes, offers degree projects and high-quality education at the doctoral level.
The Department of Clinical Microbiology has a significant educational assignment within the medical program, the dental program, the biomedicine program, the nursing program and the biomedical analyst program. The teaching is divided between the teachers in the subject areas of virology, clinical bacteriology, infectious diseases, immunology and clinical immunology based on their subject competence.