Lecture and guided tour of the exhibition

Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 11:00 a.m.

Building J1, Lecture Hall G

In June 1961, the German Science Council announced the establishment of seven medical academies. This was not only intended to solve the capacity problem in medical education, but also to counter the "crisis in medicine", which was primarily explained by scientific and technical specialization. Accordingly, the two key questions were how specialization could be eliminated in the unit of the university clinic and how specialized training could be combined with the ideal of comprehensive general medical education.

At the same time, the lamentable lack of research in German medicine at the time was attributed to the hierarchical structures at the faculties. The planned medical academies were to be based on a departmental system based on the US model, the main features of which were a strong mid-level faculty and teamwork. These reform ideas were ultimately realized in different ways and not always according to plan in the newly founded Medical Academy Lübeck (1964), Hannover Medical School (1965) and Ulm Medical School of Natural Sciences (1967).

Followed by a guided tour of the exhibition "The Hannover Model" (Annika Wellmann, curator)!

Open to all interested parties.