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Psychotherapists should be impartial. But how to react if patients make contemptuous and discriminatory remarks? Interview with Samual Thoma, psychotherapist and psychiatrist at the mental health centre of the Immanual Klinik Rüdersdorf, one of the MHB university hospitals, about his experience with extreme right-wing patients and his views of politics in day-to-day clinical practice.

Brandenburg Medical Association (LÄKB) presents Badge of Honour to Prof. Dieter Nürnberg, MHB founding dean, for services to the medical profession in Brandenburg.

The Brandenburg Medical School (MHB) organized a Virtual Open Day last Saturday, with a colourful mixture of contributions from instructors and students. Prospective students of medicine and psychotherapy took the opportunity to get an authentic and first-hand impression – despite the distance – of the MHB, its innovative programmes and practice-based formats of teaching and exams.

First student cohort addresses challenges and potentials of regional healthcare provision in new degree course at Brandenburg Faculty of Health Sciences (FGW).

An information board will be inaugurated in front of the townhall of Niemegk on Thursday, 20 October 2022 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., to commemorate Robert Koch who worked as a country doctor in the Fläming region in 1868/69.

Starting with the coming summer semester, the German Parkinson Association launches a new and generous grant and co-finances two further Deutschlandstipendium scholarships.

3rd Brandenburg Conference on Health Services Research highlights current situation and identifies gaps in research. Health Minister Nonnemacher underlines significance of health services research.

This MHB website offers regularly updated and amended information on current measures and guidance related to the Corona-Virus (SARS-CoV-2).

Participatory concept for set-up of a “Centre of Health Competence” wins second place.

Can Gero Leineweber and Stefan Reinsch attend important meeting on medical education and present research project on teaching innovations.

Starting with the summer semester of 2023, the Brandenburg Medical School (MHB) increases the scope of admissions to the Brandenburg medical model curriculum. The number of openings for prospective medical students will rise from now 48 to a maximum of 74 per semester.

MHB announces new consecutive Master programme in Health Services Research. The initial format will be a part-time course with blended learning. Organizationally assigned to the Faculty of Health Sciences (FGW), the course will be based at the Centre for Health Services Research (ZFV-BB) in Rüdersdorf near Berlin.

The Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB) invited family, friends and companions of the second class of the Brandenburg medical model curriculum to the graduation ceremony at the Paulikloster/Brandenburg an der Havel last Saturday.

Restoration of the Wilhelm Wundt Building in Großbothen near Grimma officially started on Saturday, 25 June, in combination with an MHB-organized meeting. Participants of the gathering with presentations on the history of psychology were mainly young MHB scientists and students. Potential uses of the historical building remain to be decided. Financial support for the meeting was provided by the Foundation Lotte Köhler.

In May 2022, several countries outside Africa including Germany registered first cases of monkey pox. What is unusual about these cases is that affected persons had no history of travel to African countries, and secondly, that the disease appears to have been transmitted via sexual activity in many instances. MHB virologist Prof. Frank T. Hufert sums up the most relevant information.

Researchers of the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB) have moved to the former Corona outpatient department of the Rüdersdorf polyclinic. The premises were officially opened after several months of rebuilding.

MHB health services researchers present preliminary findings from ZWEIT project at symposium and point out shortcomings in implementation of second opinion guideline.

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) honours outstanding transfer of excellent research results into practice with validation programme VIP+.

Heart specialists from Immanuel Klinikum Bernau Herzzentrum Brandenburg, an MHB university clinic, win “Case of the Year” award.

The Senate of the Brandenburg Medical School elected Prof. Dr. med. Irene Hinterseher as the first MHB vice president in its meeting on 3 March 2022.

Large-scale poster campaign in Berlin and Brandenburg informs about life-threatening sepsis. Initiator is the SepWiss project, co-funded by the innovation fund of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA).

Representatives from health and social sectors and organisations collaborate with nursing facility employees in the government-sponsored project CoronaCare to develop recommendations on how to improve nursing care under pandemic conditions.

Jenny Becker was among the first medical graduates of the MHB. Guest commentary by Sigmar Trenkler, MOZ (Märkische Oderzeitung) on her motivation to go to Afghanistan despite the Taliban.

MHB announces new consecutive Master programme in Health Services Research. The initial format will be a part-time course with blended learning. Organizationally assigned to the Faculty of Health Sciences (FGW), the course will be based at the Centre for Health Services Research (ZFV-BB) in Rüdersdorf near Berlin.

Experts from the initiative “Strategy change now!” criticize measures to combat the pandemic. Their recently published position paper contains detailed proposals for improved crisis management.

MHB invites Israeli graffiti designer and street artist to decorate several free walls and other surfaces on campus and in Neuruppin.

This Saturday, prospective students of medicine and psychotherapy again used the opportunity to get an authentic and personal impression of the MHB, its innovative range of courses and practice-oriented formats of teaching and examination.

First time in Brandenburg: Immanuel Herzzentrum Brandenburg successfully employs Tendyne technology for mitral valve replacement via cardiac catheterization.

Researchers from the Brandenburg Medical School and the Harding Center for Risk Literacy Potsdam investigate infection risks and protective concepts for indoor events.

The first class of students have completed their medical training at the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB – state-recognized university, founded in 2014). The location for the farewell ceremony with ca. 300 guests last Saturday was the former convent St. Paulikloster, Brandenburg an der Havel. Congratulations came from Health Minister Jens Spahn and Prime Minister Dr. Dietmar Woidke.

Brandenburg Medical School and Harding Center for Risk Literacy (Potsdam) conduct joint study to assess risks involved in large open air events under pandemic conditions.

Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher meets student equality initiative "Theodora stellt gleich" to learn about activities and praises commitment to equality and non-discrimination.

MHB senate passes guidelines on gender-neutral language as a further move towards gender equality.

Resulting book now published in book series on historical and memorial places.

Prof. Edmund Neugebauer and Prof. Markus Deckert investigate the extent to which the Corona pandemic has changed society in a joint guest commentary published by the daily Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung. They suggest a task force to be set up for policy advice and improved crisis management.

The second class of medical students at the MHB Theodor Fontane has successfully passed the written state examination M2, according to the central evaluation by the German Institute for medical and pharmaceutical examinations IMPP.

A virtual ceremony welcomes new MHB students of psychology and medicine. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Liedtke (president of the Brandenburg parliament) congratulates the beginners on their choice. Dean Prof. Dr. Markus gives this year’s keynote speech. Musical accompaniment was provided by the Berlin Jazz Ensemble with Johannes Albes (sax player, songwriter and MHB professor of cardiac surgery). Carla Kniestedt acted once again as presenter.

The Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB) is one of the first universities in the German-speaking area to collaborate with the IMPP (central German institute for medical and pharmaceutical examination questions) in designing an innovative, digital and practice-based examination format.

MHB students join action to celebrate International Women’s Day and support women’s rights.

Prof. Dr. med. Cornelius Frömmel succeeds Prof. Dr. med. Joachim W. Dudenhausen as the new founding dean of the Brandenburg Faculty of Health Sciences (FGW).

MHB virologist confirms effectiveness of mouth-nose covers in review.

Here you find information provided by MHB on current measures and recommendations related to the Corona virus (SARS-CoV-2). Information is being updated and amended on a regular basis.

By letter dated 18 December 2020 the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Cultural Affairs MWFK officially recognised the following hospitals as jointly forming the “university clinic of the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB)”: Ruppiner Kliniken, Städtisches Klinikum Brandenburg, Immanuel Klinikum Bernau Herzzentrum Brandenburg and Immanuel Klinik Rüdersdorf. These constitute a network of regional hospitals and support the MHB.

MHB student initiative for prevention and solidarity creates a path of light in remembrance of the 567 Corona victims in the State of Brandenburg (as per 14 December 2020).

The town of Neuruppin honoured Josephine Steinborn and Can Gero Leineweber as “heroes in times of pandemic” on behalf of all MHB students with outstanding commitment in fighting Corona.

MHB president calls for reorientation of health system in new book.

MHB students visit local schools to talk about the new Corona virus with teachers and pupils. They answer questions, discuss conspiracy theories and try to allay fears and worries.

MHB doctoral regulations entered into force on 26 November 2020, the date of publication in the official journal of the Brandenburg University of Technology. Students, young researchers and physicians may now complete doctoral studies at the new Faculty of Health Sciences.

Honorary professorship for Prof. Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, as proposed by the board of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FGW).

Monique Jänsch, research assistant of MHB professor Oliver Ritter (clinical director cardiology/nephrology/pneumology at the Brandenburg Municipal Hospital) receives Rudi Busse Young Investigator Award for experimental cardiovascular research.

Last Friday, the second Brandenburg Congress for Health Services Research took place in digital format due to Corona. Organisers were the MHB Centre for Health Services Research (ZVF-BB) and the section for health services research/e Health of the Brandenburg Faculty of Health Sciences (FGW).

Matriculation ceremonies for new students of psychotherapy and medicine took place last week, despite Corona and under strict conditions. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Liedtke (president of the Brandenburg Parliament), Science Minister Dr. Manja Schüle and Health Minister Dr. Ulrike Nonnemacher attended, praised the MHB and congratulated the beginners.

15th Health Circle meets in Potsdam to discuss future medical care.

MHB students start new action group and expand commitment to children’s rights and health wordwide.

MHB (Brandenburg Medical School) students, staff and management attended a ceremony in the senate hall last Wednesday to celebrate the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Günter Fleischer and award him a place of honour.

BMBF-funded research project at Brandenburg Medical School (MHB) explores social health in times of lockdown due to Corona pandemic. Guest commentary by Ulrike Gawande (Ruppiner Anzeiger)

MHB students create new mural as statement against racism.

MHB psychology students offer digital consultancy on Corona.

Jonathan Nübel, 11th-semester medical student, receives the Otto Hess doctoral scholarship from the German Cardiac Society DGK as the first student at the Brandenburg Medical School to be sponsored by the renowned medical society.

The IMPP (National Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions) reports that 40 out of 42 medical MHB students, i.e. the very first cohort, have successfully passed the second medical state examination.

The MHB has received more entries than ever in this year’s competition for the grant programme Deutschlandstipendium. There is also a record number of available grants.

Brandenburg’s coalition partners SPD, CDU and Green Party agreed on an amended budget for 2020 including 6.6 mio. EUR for the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB) and unanimously adopted the motion in the budget and finance committee. The plenary session is scheduled for 1 April 2020.

For three days in February, the Immanuel Klinik Rüdersdorf hosted a Winter School for MHB medical students with a focus on “Global Health". Report by Dr. Lydia Gabriela Stübler (Communications, Immanuel Klinik Rüdersdorf)

Award-winner Stefanie Oess feels pleased and honoured to be again named ‘best instructor’: “I joined the MHB three years ago because I found the innovative concept and the strong practice orientation convincing and was looking for new ways in student education. For biochemistry, this meant a departure from pure factual knowledge and a new focus on overarching concepts and their application in clinical settings. This repeated distinction implies that we are headed in the right direction.”

Third presentation of poster awards to MHB students on 31 January 2020.

Also present: 3 MHB students

The first campaign day against sexism took place at the Brandenburg Medical School (MHB) on Monday, 2 December 2019. Students had founded a team to oppose sexism and initiated the day of action as a first step to raise awareness of the topic among students and instructors at the MHB.

Last Friday, 4 October 2019, about 80 new students of medicine and psychology celebrated their enrolment at the event venue Kulturkirche Neuruppin. The president of the Brandenburg parliament Prof. Ulrike Liedtke congratulated the students on their choice of a university.

MHB officials presented the university’s plans for further expansion at the Brandenburg state press conference in Potsdam. The proclaimed intention is to retain responsibility for medical education.

Preferential treatment will be given to applicants with a higher education entrance qualification acquired in Brandenburg, and medical students at the MHB (or those with an offer to study here)!

The Neuruppin campus hosted the MHB Higher Education Information Day (HIT) again last Saturday. Prospective students with an interest in medicine and psychology were invited to lectures and interactive presentations, to learn more about the MHB concept and programmes, and get a personal impression on site.

A financial agreement on funding from the Brandenburg government for the new Faculty of Health Sciences was signed in Potsdam last Friday. Signatories were Prof. Edmund Neugebauer as president of the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, MHB campus GmbH director Martin Pangritz, and the Brandenburg Minister of Science and Research Dr. Martina Münch. 1.6 million Euro per year for a total of four new professorships will go to the MHB in the next four years.

47 medical students presented posters to illustrate research projects and findings from 25 different disciplines which they developed within the 8-week scientific internship.

Prof., Christian Mang uses TV series about misanthropic doctor to teach diagnosis to MHB students. Guest commentary by Thomas Steinberg.

Carol-singing MHB students visit Ruppin hospitals for the third consecutive year.

Ivo Buschmann (MHB professor of angiology and director of the university angiology clinic at the Brandenburg Municipal Hospital) and his team of researchers documented that nitric oxide, a molecule chemically related to explosives, helps to improve heart blood circulation.

The newly founded Brandenburg Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials (KKS-BB) started work with a first research workshop on the Neuruppin campus last Friday, 16 November 2018.

The town of Guben was the destination of the MHB van with seven medical students on board on its first tour to the countryside in Brandenburg last weekend (13/14 October). The idea is to visit regions threatened by a shortage of medical care and raise their chances to attract future physicians.

About 70 students take up psychology studies. The Brandenburg Medical School (MHB) welcomed 43 new Bachelor and 24 Master students with a ceremony last Friday. The location: Neuruppiner Kulturkirche, former church and now cultural centre.

The renowned US journal “Academic Medicine” has published the first paper with an MHB medical student as lead author in the September issue. Supervised by Prof. Andreas Winkelmann, director of the MHB Institute of Anatomy, Juri Habicht explored the procurement of bodies used by anatomists all over the world in dissection courses.
Neuruppin, 10 September 2018

The premises of Ruppiner Kliniken were the location of a live broadcast of the programme “rbb Praxis” last Wednesday, 22 August 2018, between 8:15 and 9:45 p.m. Raiko Thal entertained the tv audience with interesting studio guests, film clips and a spectacular non-surgical removal of gallstones.

2nd semester Bachelor students of psychology organized a meeting (location: ceremonial hall, Ruppiner Kliniken) to present findings from their first research studies last Thursday.

Brandenburg Medical School, University of Potsdam and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg sign cooperation agreement for Health Campus. Science Minister Münch presents official permission.

The MHB campus in Brandenburg an der Havel turned into a teddy clinic for cuddly toys of kindergartners on 17 May.

The Potsdam-Golm university campus hosted the 6th Potsdam Science Day on Saturday, 5 May 2018. Researchers from over 40 Brandenburg institutions of higher education and research offered exciting insights into their activities. The general public was invited to “explore, discover and join in”. The Brandenburg Medical School participated for the first time, with a big pagoda marquee as location for various presentations and events.

MHB welcomed 48 medical students and 7 psychology students with a ceremony last Friday. MHB Dean Prof. Dr. Edmund Neugebauer was pleased to celebrate the start of the fourth class in the Brandenburg medical model curriculum and the third class in the Master programme of clinical psychology and psychotherapy.)

Medical directors, hospital managers, personnel officers and physicians from 13 cooperating clinics met the newcomers who will start their medical studies in April. A special feature is that the hospitals are not only involved in teaching and research at the university but assume part of tuition fees, i.e. € 80,000 per student. This year they grant 32 loans.

The Ruppiner Kliniken hosted a symposium on bipolar disorders (title: Bipolar disorders – a rollercoaster of emotions. Scientific and literary approach to a multifaceted psychiatric condition) last Wednesday. The event was co-organised with the Brandenburg Medical School.

Christian Blei wins first prize at poster presentation. Medical student impressed reviewers with poster addressing the question “Does seamless aortic valve replacement reduce perioperative stress compared to conventional valve replacement?” A total of 46 MHB medical students presented first research findings as posters in conclusion of their research internship. The association of MHB sponsors honoured the best posters with attractive awards.

Researchers, clinicians and entrepreneurs discussed current topics, trends and developments in the field of bioanalysis in the Postdam conference centre BlauArt on 23 and 24 November.

Medical student representatives invite to summer meeting 2018. Approximately 200 participants from 38 medical schools nationwide expected.

Representatives from ministries of education and research came to MHB for talks with the Dean and students on special features of our university and the current state of development.

This talks series on current topics of health services research started last semester with success (location: Potsdam, Haus der Ärzteschaft) and has now resumed. MHB Dean Prof. Dr. Edmund A. Neugebauer initiated the series and is pleased to again have won a number of renowned experts as lecturers and for discussion on current concepts, methods and studies in the field.

Bertram Otto won against 13 competitors with his presentation of an innovative didactic learning format to convey competences in community medicine.

"Tomorrow’s World" was the motto of the first Summer School organized by the Brandenburg Medical School (MHB) with renowned guests from academia, philosophy and arts. Joachimsthal at Lake Werbellin was the location of the event from 25 to 29 September 2017.

In a landmark ruling dated 17 August 2017, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig decided that lateral entrants can be admitted to training as psychological psychotherapists. Successful completion of a Master programme in psychology at a German university, so the court, is sufficient qualification for entry and meets admission requirements. A previous Bachelor degree in psychology is no longer obligatory.

The lecture series “Brandenburger Gespräche” on health services research presented the last two lectures before the summer recess on Wednesday, 19 July 2017.

MHB researchers find evidence that a specific therapy they developed may influence the ageing process of white blood cells circulating in arteries.

The MHB campus Neuruppin on the premises of Ruppiner Kliniken opened its doors to visitors on Saturday, 17 June 2017, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. About 800 prospective applicants and their families wanted to get information on programmes in medicine and psychology and also personal impressions of the special features of MHB. In view of the great demand and limited capacities registration for the Open Day had to close early.

Prof. Dr. Edmund A. Neugebauer, dean of the Brandenburg Medical School and senior professor of health services research at Witten/Herdecke University, was appointed an honorary member by the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) at their 25^th international congress in Frankfurt a. M. (14 – 17 June 2017).

About 200 guests from science, politics, health care and society attended a ceremony at the city hall of Brandenburg an der Havel to inaugurate the new campus building on Sunday, 9 April 2017.

Medical directors, hospital managers, personnel officers and physicians from 13 cooperating clinics met 31 students who started their medical studies last April. A special feature is that the hospitals assume part of tuition fees, i.e. 80.000 euros per student. In return students commit themselves to complete their 5-year specialist training at a specific hospital after graduation.

BMBF sponsors AngioAccel project with 1.7 million euros. Amputations to be reduced by up to 25%.