The alumni prize for innovative teaching: EM!L
EM!L is the alumni award for innovative teaching at the MHH. The MHH-Alumni e.V. created this award in 2019 to highlight the importance of teaching at the MHH and create a career incentive. Teaching concepts that make teaching at the MHH even better and more attractive with new ideas and impulses are to be honored. The award is endowed with personal prize money of €4,000.
Application
All lecturers, students and employees of the MHH who have implemented an innovative teaching project in Human medicine or dentistry at the MHH that is based on didactically sound principles can apply.
Selection
The selection is made by a committee consisting of, among others, the Deans of Studies of Human Medicine and Dentistry and the Chairman of the Board of the MHH Alumni Association. The selection criteria are Quality of the idea and implementation in practice, optimization of the didactic and/or organizational design of teaching, resonance or success, potential for further development and transferability as well as sustainability.
Call for proposals
Call text in PDF format
End of the application period
30.05.2025
Award ceremony
The EM!L 2025 will be awarded as part of the Human medicine summer graduation ceremony on 28.06.2025.
Prof. Dr. Sandra Steffens was awarded the EM!L 2023 for the development of the UAPP teaching organization tool. UAPP helps physicians to spontaneously identify interesting examination and treatment situations for bedside teaching (UaK) in everyday clinical practice, to inform students promptly and to coordinate their participation in UaK in an uncomplicated and flexible manner. In this way, students gain unique insights into patient care under practical conditions and enjoy significantly improved, patient-centered training.
Dr. Christoph Noll is awarded the EM!L 2024 for the development of the innovative VR training program NEXT-VR. The realistic emergency simulation training in VR format promotes decision-making under pressure and the understanding of complex clinical contexts.Thanks in part to the underlying didactic concept with preparatory e-learning units and a strong feedback culture, NEXT-VR is now an integral part of the practical training of medical students at the MHH.
Dr. Lion D. Sieg and Dr. Hendrik Eismann were awarded the EM!L 2022 for the sustainable digitalization of the Emergency Medicine module. The aim is to first teach students the basic skills via a digital inverted classroom concept. In the emergency internship, students are then trained to independently deal with previously unknown emergency situations in their own team.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sandra Steffens was awarded the EM!L 2023 for the development of the UAPP teaching organization tool.UAPP helps physicians to spontaneously identify interesting examination and treatment situations for bedside teaching (UaK) in everyday clinical practice, to inform students promptly and to coordinate their participation in UaK in an uncomplicated and flexible manner. In this way, students gain unique insights into patient care under practical conditions and enjoy significantly improved, patient-centered training.
The teaching team for microscopic anatomy was awarded the EM!L 2021 for the introduction of case-based learning modules in the sub-module "Microscopic Anatomy". The aim of the interdisciplinary courses is to enable students to apply the learning content of microscopic anatomy in the context of authentic scenarios.
Ten physicians were awarded the EM!L 2020 for developing an interdisciplinary concept for the start of the PJ. The aim of the concept is to prepare students for their practical year as efficiently as possible so that they are ready to work as a fully-fledged team member right from the start. The one-day program covers the core areas of ward procedures, Communications, practical skills, emergency and hygiene and can be implemented partially or fully virtually as required.
The eFAST team was awarded the EM!L 2019 for the development and curricular implementation of a blended learning concept for teaching eFAST emergency sonography. Thanks to the interdisciplinary teaching concept, all fourth-year students at the MHH can learn the eFAST sonography technique for the first time in a mixture of eLearning and simulation-based classroom sessions.