Academy for Medical Training in the GDR
The Academy for Medical Training of the GDR (AfÄF), based in Berlin-Lichtenberg, was a scientific institution directly subordinate to the Ministry of Health, with the right to award doctorates and post- doctoral qualifications for further training in the health and social system of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
It was created in 1954 under the name "Academy for Social Hygiene, Industrial Hygiene and Medical Training" from the Central Institute for Social and Industrial Hygiene, founded in 1948. In 1961 the name was changed to "German Academy for Medical Further Education", and from 1972 the institution was named "Academy for Medical Further Education of the GDR". A number of hospitals in the GDR were connected to the academy as so-called advanced training centers.
The main tasks of the academy were the qualification of executives for the health system in the GDR, the training of specialists , dentists and specialist pharmacists as well as the further training of natural scientists and engineers to become specialists in medicine . In addition, the AfÄF was responsible for the further training of foreign doctors, the qualification of doctors in the field of military medicine as well as research in the field of management, planning, organization and economics of health and social services.
The academy was divided into sections. These had chairs in which university lecturers, but also "outstanding doctors and scientists who exercised a leading position in health care facilities", worked full-time. They are also employed as honorary professors and lecturers at universities and medical academies. The head of the academy was the rector and elected for three years by the scientific council, a group of "outstanding university lecturers and scientists" that stood by the rector as a "collective scientific advisory body". The general advisory and control body of the rector is a social council, as it exists at the other universities and colleges.
After 1990, the Academy was responsibility of the Berlin Senate Department for Science and Research, and later the Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs handled . The organizational responsibility for the training of specialists was transferred to the medical associations . The holdings of the Academy's library are currently in the library of the occupational medicine department of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which was founded in Berlin in 1991 as the Federal Institute for Occupational Medicine, and in the Federal Archives .
literature
- Bodo Mros , Günter Jäschke: The Academy for Medical Training of the GDR: Its becoming, its work and its end. In: Hochschule Ost. Leipzig contributions to university and science. 6 (2 )/1997. Peer Pasternack (Ed.) / Leipziger Universitätsverlag GmbH, pp. 80-91, ISSN 0944-7989
- Bodo Mros: Scientific institutions of the Ministry of Health of the GDR in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Academy for Medical Training. Publication series “Medicine and Society”, issue 44/45. Interest group medicine and society eV, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89-626455-9
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludz Peter Christian Johannes Kuppe: GDR manual . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations. 1st edition. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1979, ISBN 978-3-8046-8515-4 , p. 34 .