Neuruppin, 11 November 2024
The foundation Friedrich Thieding in collaboration with the SIGMA Bank has awarded the Hartmannbund (German association of medical practitioners) scholarship for the eighth time. Recipients are medical students Laurine Kristin Sprehe and Simon Stiehl. The scholarship rewards excellent academic performance and outstanding commitment in occupational and social politics in medical school.
Prior to his medical studies, Simon Stiehl completed primary studies of health and nursing sciences in Osnabrück and Bern. Currently in his 8th semester at the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB), he has a particular passion for neurology and psychiatry. Parallel to a research semester in experimental neurology at the Charitè in Berlin, he is preparing his doctoral thesis in psychopharmacology.
He holds lectures on acute psychiatry treatment as an external lecturer at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Osnabrück is also where he successfully initiated and established the project “Recovery College Osnabrück” which offers educational opportunities to individuals with mental disorders. The Theodor Fliedner medal for innovative care concepts went to this project in 2022.
At the MHB he developed the student format „First Aid! – erstes Semester“ for first-semester students of medicine and dental medicine in the form of a lecture series. The tutorial offers an overview of diverse learning strategies and models and of useful media material with reference to MHB instruction formats. The series has been integrated into the schedule of the Model curriculum dental medicine at the MHB.
Another project close to his heart is his voluntary service for the MHB patient university. In this context he is actively involved in various schemes for the education of neurology patients: the Parkinson Café on the campus in Neuruppin, patient training, and a Parkinson symposium at the MHB with a focus on care contents, specific therapy concepts and every-day problems with Parkinson’s disease. Training units and expert panels on routine issues of relevance to nursing relatives complement the medical lectures.
With outstanding dedication, he aims to support and improve not only individual health competences but also an interprofessional approach in theory and practice for competent patient care. As a member of a working group on interprofessional education he advocates a stronger role of interprofessional teaching units in the medical MHB curriculum.
Since her schooldays, Laurine Kristin Sprehe has developed a particular interest in the human heart and associated medical fields. Now in her 8th semester at Heidelberg University, she has decided on cardiology as an area of future research at a university hospital. She started on an experimental doctoral project early this year.
In addition to outstanding achievements in her medical studies she demonstrates an active interest in a wide range of social issues, as well as curiosity and an open mind for current developments and innovations in research and patient care. She leads a working group on digital medicine at her university and initiated a lecture series entitled “Data and Pizza” in collaboration with the Institute of Medical Informatics as part of the structured program of doctoral studies in Heidelberg. In this context she attaches great importance to advancing the medical curriculum, including more digital content, and preparing students better for technical innovations in the hospital. As an elected member of her department’s curricular committee, she successfully supported the implementation of a new longitudinal curriculum in digital medicine, the introduction of which she is monitoring as a research assistant to the Institute of Medical Informatics.
Representing the Hartmannbund at her university, she is devoted to furthering digital medicine, and to interdisciplinary exchange with fellow students. The active member of the association “Heidelberger Club für Wirtschaft und Kultur e.V.” organizes meetings. In addition to all this, she gives regular extra lessons to a schoolgirl from Ukraine.
