Medical Faculty Day

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The Medical Faculty Day of the Federal Republic of Germany is a non-profit association that advises and supports the medical faculties of German universities in research, teaching and health care.

tasks

The Medical Faculty Day was founded on January 4, 1913 in Halle (Saale) under the aegis of the internist Adolf Schmidt . In over 100 courses of study, the 38 medical faculties in the Federal Republic of Germany provide training for around 96,000 (more and more female) students in human medicine , dentistry and health sciences . Basic research and clinical studies shape the German scientific landscape and improve patient care. The faculties raise more than 1.2 billion euros in third-party funding every year .

Commissions serve to solve current problems. The program includes faculty days and events on important topics in university medicine . The Medical Faculty Day promotes international exchange, especially with Austria , Switzerland and the Netherlands . Medical training and research facilities in these neighboring countries are associated MFT members. Guest faculties are Graz , Innsbruck , Maastricht , Vienna and Zurich .

The Academy for Training in University Medicine (AHM) serves to improve teaching sustainably. A two-year postgraduate course can be completed with the academic degree Master of Medical Education (MME) .

The current presidium consists of a. from Matthias Frosch (Würzburg), Ingo Autenrieth (Heidelberg), the dentist Roland Frankenberger (Marburg) and some deans . The MFT has an office in Berlin .

In honor of its founder, the MFT awards the Adolf Schmidt Medal.

Faculty days

Publications

  • University medicine map . Stuttgart 2007.
  • Innovations in medical studies . Berlin 2011.

literature

  • Josef Günter Rauch: Medical Faculty Day of the Federal Republic of Germany including West Berlin (MFT) 1973 to 1980 . Dissertation. Technical University of Munich, 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Our Presidium - the faces of the association . medical-fakultaeten.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  2. ^ Adolf Schmidt Medal