Golden and silver graduates celebrated together for the first time
September 16, 2023
On Saturday, MHH-Alumni e.V. organized a special premiere at Hannover Medical School: for the first time, golden and silver graduates celebrated a reunion at their alma mater. 107 of them had completed their medical studies in 1998, six others had already done so in 1973.
A short report and a picture gallery of the graduation anniversary on 16.09.2023 are now online!
Examination ceremony and EM!L award ceremony
July 1, 2023
On Saturday, the graduates of Human Medicine celebrated their departure from Hannover Medical School with their friends and families. Over 360 guests gathered for the graduation ceremony in Lecture Hall F at Hannover Medical School.
Professor Sandra Steffens was awarded the alumni prize for innovative teaching for the development of the digital organization tool UAPP, which allows students to be called in promptly for interesting examination and treatment situations that often arise spontaneously in everyday clinical practice.
Support for First Aid For All (FAFA)
March 10, 2023
Around 100,000 medical students from all over Germany are organized in the Bundesvertretung der Medizinstudierenden in Deutschland e.V. (bvmd). The bvmd not only advocates for the interests of medical students, it also promotes professional exchange among them and encourages them to work on specific topics in project groups. One of these project groups is "First Aid For All", whose aim is to better anchor first aid skills and in particular cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the general public. At 50%, the lay resuscitation rate in Germany is significantly lower than in countries such as Norway or Denmark, where resuscitation is an integral part of school lessons. According to projections, up to 10,000 lives could be saved in Germany every year if this were also the case in Germany. Until then, First Aid For All students are closing part of the gap and regularly visit secondary schools to teach pupils how to recognize circulatory arrest, call for help, practice chest compressions and use an automated defibrillator. The MHH medical students from the Hanover local group are regularly trained by physicians from the MHH Children's Hospital and the Department of Anesthesia & Emergency Medicine and were able to train 790 children and young people last year alone.
MHH-Alumni e.V. is supporting the national meeting of the First Aid for All project group to be held in Hanover in May 2023 with a grant of 500 euros. We wish you every success!
Two German scholarships from MHH-Alumni e.V.
September 2, 2022
Last year, the scholarship program celebrated its tenth birthday. And the best thing: In the anniversary year, it was possible to support more students at MHH than ever before: 33 particularly committed people received a scholarship, two of whom were supported via MHH-Alumni e.V.. As the usual scholarship celebration had to be canceled in winter due to the coronavirus, there was another opportunity today for sponsors and recipients to get together at the end of the scholarship year. For the first time, the get-together did not take place in a lecture hall, but in a relaxed atmosphere and pleasant temperatures in the inner courtyard of the preclinical teaching building (J2). A good idea for the next scholarship celebration - at which the MHH Alumni e.V. will hopefully be present again.
A new running shirt for the MHH
June 18, 2021
When two people meet up for a run in the shade at 34 degrees, there can only be one reason: the breathable running shirt in dark blue that the MHH Alumni Association has added to the university store's range. Martina Saurin, MHH Board Member for Management and Administration since December 1, 2020, is delighted: "I have a running shirt from every university I've worked at. I'm delighted that I can now add an MHH shirt to my closet." The running enthusiast was supported in the photo shoot by alumni board member Dr. Eckhard Schenke, who also jogs regularly in his free time. The running shirt is now available in many sizes for men and women in the university store.
Study Saturdays for students with children
April 30, 2021
Studying undisturbed in the library is often difficult to organize for students with children at the weekend. To give them time to concentrate on their studies undisturbed and for several hours at a time, especially before important written exams, the MHH Family Service regularly offers so-called study Saturdays. On these days, children of students are looked after free of charge for up to eight hours while their parents can prepare for exams in the library. Lunch together in the Canteen is also included in the offer. The program, which was co-initiated by the AStA project groups "Students with Children", is 75% funded by the Studentenwerk Hannover. The MHH-Alumni e.V. covers the remaining 25% and contributes 1,000 euros to the funding. We wish all students who benefit from the learning Saturdays happy work!
CURARE archive online
April 20, 2021
In a joint effort of the MHH library and the AStA of the MHH, the archive of the student newspaper CURARE has been made available online. The list of searchable issues goes back to the very first issue, which was published in May 1986. So if you would like to browse through the articles from your student days, you have two options: Either use the library catalog or the MHH publication server for your search from the MHH campus network. Or you can send us a short e-mail with your search request to alumni@mh-hannover.de and we will send you the relevant issue in PDF format. You can search for authors, article titles or entire volumes. So if you want to reminisce, just get in touch with us!
One year of Corona: Review of the student body
March 2, 2021
January 2020: After a virus in China was mentioned in the news from time to time, the International Office sent me an email to say that my clinical traineeship at Huazhong University of Science & Technology in Wuhan needed to be reconsidered. A few days later, I received the final rejection, and today I can laugh about it and put this story in the anecdote drawer for life. In this one year, not only has everything been turned upside down worldwide. Life has changed for everyone and the MHH student body has not been spared. Let me therefore describe the current situation of the student body.
The first lockdown in spring 2020 also brought chaos. The Office of the Dean and AStA tried to minimize the uncertainty among the student body by pursuing an open information policy. However, where there is no information, no information can be passed on. Without further ado, a student task force consisting of a handful of university politics students was founded in order to bundle the flow of information and create a clear point of contact. Thanks to the efforts of the Office of the Dean, the phase of great uncertainty regarding the continuation of courses at the MHH was kept short. Teaching content was digitized in a fast-track process, practical courses were adapted to the hygiene regulations and examination plans were rewritten for the ever-changing requirements. In particular, the digitalization of teaching content, which the student body has been fighting for for years, was achieved in a matter of days and weeks. A small positive particle in the molecular vortex of the pandemic.
Unfortunately, the adjustments to the pandemic were not enough, as the model degree program in Human medicine was also restructured in the 2020/21 winter semester in order to respond to the increasing number of students per year. Tertials became quintiles, and where exams used to be written sporadically, they now took place in close succession within a week. Where there are changes, there is always resentment. A mix of corona problems and the inconvenience caused by the restructuring brought the barrel to the top in some places, but an overflow was prevented, the problems were cleared up and the new structure in Human Medicine is regularly evaluated to ensure that the gears are well-oiled again. At the same time, the student task force, together with the MHH, coordinated the temporary student workers who were now being called for in the news to prevent our healthcare system from being overwhelmed. The student body responded. At the MHH alone, well over 1,000 students volunteered to do their bit. Even after a year, this sentence still resonates with pride.
All in all, we as a student body got off lightly and a status quo was established, which is characterized by constant adjustments to maintain teaching operations. Students at the MHH had the privilege of being able to keep their student jobs for the most part, meaning that acute financial difficulties only occurred in isolated cases. In individual cases, the AStA, in the person of the social welfare officer, was able to mediate and solutions were found. Individual cases in which the dilemma between the risk of infection of an on-campus exam and the lack of financial leeway led to exams being skipped and an extension of the standard period of study being risked are tragic. We must remain vigilant here and find individual solutions for those affected with the help of existing institutions and resources. In dentistry, teaching was also quickly resumed in digital form and practical courses were also offered and carried out in a reduced form. Here, too, it was possible to avoid extending study times and maintain teaching operations.
In recent weeks, the topic of vaccinations has been at the top of the list. After initial resentment about the fact that students were not included in the vaccination prioritization, at least the PJ students have now been included in the vaccination program after many discussions. We are confident that further steps can be discussed according to infectiological standards and taken in cooperation with all departments. This will make it easier to find clinical traineeships again and minimize the risk for patients and students. The ultimate goal is to continue to train outstanding physicians, dentistry, biochemists and biomedical scientists at the MHH. Campus life, which makes the MHH and life here so attractive alongside teaching, is to be ramped up as soon as it is justifiable again. Then the more than 25 AStA project groups will once again entice us with film evenings, poetry slams, discussion rounds and the odd small celebration. Until then, I would like to express my sincere thanks on behalf of the student body for the large amount of support for student body projects and look forward to the future. Because the MHH is and will remain a wonderful place to study.
Lennart Simon (Chairman of the AStA at the MHH)
Now being renovated.
February 9, 2021
MHH students love coffee. And we love the MHH students. That's why we are supporting the planned renovation of the "living room" with a grant of 500 euros. The former student cafeteria, which has been the center of student life at MHH for decades, was redesigned by Campus Life e.V. in 2006 and most recently extensively modernized in 2015. Since then, it has been the venue for even more enthusiastic discussions, exhibitions, events - and of course coffee. But where there's planing, there's chipping. And so there is currently some repair work to be done. We are happy to help and are already looking forward to the results.
We support the next generation of MHH scientists.
November 17, 2020
MHH-Alumni e.V. has been supporting the Deutschlandstipendium for years. We are particularly impressed by the fact that not only professional achievements count here, but also human commitment in all its facets, be it in the AStA, in medical care for the homeless or privately in living with your own children or a parent in need of care. This year, there are more applications than ever, as the coronavirus crisis has caused many part-time jobs to disappear. We are therefore funding three scholarships this year, but more scholarships are urgently needed. Become a scholarship donor too!
MHH-Alumni e.V. subsidizes three dental cases
October 29, 2019
The start of studies in dentistry is a particularly expensive phase: for the technical propaedeutics course, but also for the further course of studies, it is essential to have your own "TPK case" with various instruments and materials. The new price is around 2,300 euros, and even the few coveted used ones are not available for less than 1,700 euros. For this reason, the MHH-Alumni e.V. has once again provided a total amount of 1,500 euros this year to support three students with a grant of 500 euros each for the purchase. Selection and awarding were organized by the AStA department for social affairs.