Paracelsus Clinic becomes MHH teaching hospital
24.05.2023 18:43
Hannover Medical School and Paracelsus Klinik am Silbersee Langenhagen are strengthening their collaboration. The training of young doctors is the focus of expanded cooperation.
The Paracelsus Clinic at Silbersee Langenhagen can now call itself the academic teaching hospital of the Hannover Medical School (MHH). The management of the Paracelsus Clinic and the management of the university have officially agreed on this. From the winter semester of 2023/2024 onwards, according to the confirmation from the state examination office, prospective MHH doctors will come to Langenhagen, ten kilometers away, and learn there in practice for their future profession. “We are very proud to be able to hold this title,” explains Prof. Dr. med. Christian H. Siebert, medical director and head of orthopedics at the clinic. “It is also a recognition of the high quality of medical care that we provide here in Langenhagen.”
Grown from many years of collaboration
The Paracelsus Clinic at Silbersee Langenhagen and the Hannover Medical School can already look back on around ten years of cooperation. So far it has included two prospective MHH doctors permanently working in the clinic's cardiology department. For six months at a time, the young doctors were able to gain initial experience with internal medicine cases in practice as ward doctors. “Based on this tradition, the intention has long been to link the Paracelsus Clinic to the MHH as a teaching hospital,” explains Dr. med. Tom Steinmetz, chief physician of internal medicine at the Paracelsus Clinic. “It was also a personal concern of mine to do more for the good training of future doctors.” When he took up his position in July 2022, the chief physician, who worked for many years as an advisor and supervisor for students in their practical year at the MHH, brought He used his existing contacts with the university's dean's office and, against the background of increasing student numbers, successfully campaigned for his clinic to be officially integrated and recognized as a teaching hospital.
Advantages for all sides
The cooperation that has now started includes the specialist areas of internal medicine, anesthesia and orthopedics. Up to five students in the practical year (PJ) - three in internal medicine and one each as an elective in anesthesia and orthopedics - are expected at the Paracelsus Clinic from October 1st at the start of the winter semester. In addition, further exchanges with students from higher semesters in internal medicine are planned.
The practical year is a compulsory part of medical training in Germany and is a clinical training year in which students can gain practical experience in various medical disciplines under supervision and apply their theoretical knowledge in clinical practice. The collaboration between medical schools and hospitals offers the advantage that students can learn from experienced professionals while at the same time ensuring excellent patient care. “In addition, teaching hospitals also contribute to the development of new medical procedures and technologies through the intensive exchange between theory and practice and have an important influence on improving the quality of health care,” explains Dr. Stonemason. “As a clinic, we have the opportunity to continually improve and we are very much looking forward to the cooperation. This may even lead to further collaboration in studies and research.” In addition, regular training events are planned for all doctors, which promise an additional increase in the quality of treatment.