Students and lecturers use the AStA summer reception for important exchanges and the presentation of teaching and module awards.
Awarded for dedicated teaching. Copyright: Zeynep Karaca
It had been a long time since an AStA summer reception had lived up to its name: in summery temperatures, with live music, finger food and cool drinks, students and lecturers from Hannover Medical School (MHH) got together in the courtyard of the teaching building to chat and recognise dedicated teaching.
The exchange between students from different degree programmes and with their lecturers is the focus of the summer reception, which is hosted every year by the AStA as the student representative body at MHH. Due to bad weather in previous years, the event had to be held in the student lounge. The new AStA chair, Felix Martin, was therefore all the more delighted to welcome guests back to the stage in the summery courtyard of the J2 building this year. Right at the start, he emphasised how important it is to him and his fellow students to have regular exchanges about the content, framework conditions and facilities of teaching at MHH: ‘We all need to pull together to further develop teaching at MHH!’ This is no longer a matter of course, he said, which makes meetings to get to know each other and exchange ideas all the more important. The evening clearly demonstrated that there are many committed students and teachers at t MHH. First, students from the two project groups ‘FirstAidforAll’ and ‘Mit Sicherheit verliebt’ (Safely in Love) presented how they are committed to teaching first aid and the topic of ‘love and sexuality’ to young people on an equal footing. Then Julian Köppen from the ASTA department for first-semester work and PJ, and Laura Korecki from the student council group for dentistry presented teaching and module awards to particularly committed teachers from the human medicine and dentistry programmes and the two master's programmes in biochemistry and biomedicine. The singer Margarita provided the musical accompaniment with African blues.
Students award teaching prizes and module prizes to particularly committed lecturers
The teaching prize winners in the Human Medicine programme:
In the first year of study, the award went to Prof. Dr. Lars Knudsen, Functional and Applied Anatomy, Dr. Stephanie Groos, Functional and Applied Anatomy, and Prof. Dr. Maximilian Lenz, Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology. In the second year of study: PD Dr. Martin Fischer, Neurophysiology, Prof. Dr. Theresia Kraft, Molecular and Cell Physiology, and Dr. Tim Scholz, Molecular and Cell Physiology. In the third year of study: Prof. Dr. Ralf Vonberg, Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Prof. Dr. Ingo Just, Toxicology, Human Medicine, and Dr. Bastian Schirmer, Pharmacology. In the fourth year of study: Prof. Dr. Cordula Schippert, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Dr. Thomas Rothämel, Legal Medicine, and Dr. Urs Mücke, Paediatric Haematology. In the fifth year of study: Prof. Dr. Dirk Stichtenoth, Clinical Pharmacology, and Prof. Dr. Olaf Krause, General Medicine and Palliative Medicine.
The winners of the teaching award in the Dentistry programme:
In the first year of study, the award went to: Dr Christine Wolters, Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, specialist Rahel Leithoff, Clinic for Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, and Prof. Dr Nadine Schlüter, Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry. In the second year of study: Prof. Dr. Maximilian Lenz, Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology, Prof. Dr. Kirsten Haastert-Talini, Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology, and Dr. Roland Kabuß, Clinical Biochemistry. In the third year of study: Specialist Cosima Glaese, Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, Prof. Dr. Michael Eisenburger, Prosthodontics and Biomedical Materials Science, and Prof. Dr. Anne-Katrin Lührs, Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry. In the fourth year of study, three lecturers from Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry each received a teaching award: Prof. Dr. Ingmar Staufenbiel, Dr. Knut Adam, and Dr. Benedikt Luka. In the fifth year of study, Prof. Dr. Ingmar Staufenbiel and Dr. Knut Adam were joined by Dr. Marco Flohr, also from Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, in receiving a teaching award.
The teaching award winners in the Master's programmes in Biochemistry and Biomedicine:
In the Master's programme in Biochemistry, the award goes to Dr. Jan Eberhage, Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, and Dr. Anja Münster-Kühnel, Clinical Biochemistry. In the Master's programme in Biomedicine, PD Dr. Martin Fischer, Neurophysiology, received the teaching award.
Prizes for the best teaching modules:
In the Human Medicine programme, the two module prizes for the first year of study go to the two modules on the anatomical foundations of medicine, ‘Macroscopic Anatomy’ and ‘Microanatomy,’ taught by Prof. Christian Mühlfeld and Prof. Lars Knudsen, both from Functional and Applied Anatomy. In the second year of study, Prof. Dr. Sandra Steffens received the module award for ‘Diagnostic Methods,’ and in the third year, Prof. Dr. Dirk Schlüter, Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Prof. Dr. Lars Dölken, Virology, and Dr. Ella Ebadi, Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, jointly received the award for their module ‘Hygiene, Microbiology, Virology.’ Prof. Dr. Michael Klintschar, Legal Medicine, receives the module award in the fourth year of study for ‘Legal Medicine,’ and Prof. Dr. Dirk Stichtenoth, Clinical Pharmacology, is the module award winner in the fifth year of study for the module ‘Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy.’
In the Dentistry programme, the following lecturers are receiving a module award: In the first year of study, Dr Reinhard Schilke, Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, for ‘Preventive Dentistry’; in the third year of study, Prof. Alexander Rahman, Conservative Dentistry, Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, for ‘Conservative Dentistry on Phantom Teeth’. In the fourth year, the module prize goes to Prof. Dr. Dr. Nils-Claudius Gellrich and PD Dr. Dr. Michael Neuhaus, both from Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and PD Dr. Hendrik Eismann, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, for the joint module ‘Interdisciplinary Emergency Medicine’ and in the fifth year of study to the course on orthodontic treatment. (Note: There was no module prize in the second year of study).
In the Master's programme in Biochemistry, two lecturers can look forward to a module award: Prof. Dr. Francoise Routier, Clinical Biochemistry, for her compulsory module ‘Glycobiochemistry’ and PD Dr. Renate Scheibe, Cell Biochemistry, for her elective module ‘Molecular Signalling Pathways in Skeletal Muscle and Heart’. In the Master's programme in Biomedicine, Prof. Dr. Andreas Kispert, Molecular Biology, receives the module award for the compulsory module ‘Molecular Biology’.
Text: Bettina Dunker