University Hospital Heidelberg

Heidelberg University Hospital is one of the largest and most prestigious medical centers in Germany. The Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University belongs to the internationally renowned biomedical research institutions in Europe; it has existed since 1388 and is the oldest in Germany. Common goal of the Hospital and medical school is the development of innovative diagnostics and therapies and implementing them rapidly for patients. Hospital and medical school employ approximately 11,800 employees ( 2012) and are involved in training and qualification. In more than 50 clinical departments with 1,900 beds (2012 ) Every year approximately 116,000 patients fully or partially stationary and treats about 1,000,000 times outpatients. The Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale ( HeiCuMed) is one of the top medical training programs in Germany. Currently, about 3,400 future physicians are studying in Heidelberg. The motto of the University Hospital is " In Scientia Salus " ( " Healing through Science ").

Medical treatment

Be at Heidelberg University Hospital annually about 116,000 inpatients treated at more than one million outpatient visits ( 2012). One focus is in cancer treatment. Together with the German Cancer Research Center, Thorax Clinic Heidelberg and the German Cancer Aid, the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT ) was established, which has the interdisciplinary treatment and the rapid application of new therapeutic approaches to the goal.

Another focus is the treatment of cardiovascular disease within the heart center of Heidelberg. Innovations in this field are the introduction of the first " Chest Pain Unit " ( emergency department for patients with suspected myocardial infarction ) and the first "Advanced Heart Failure Unit" ( Monitoring Station for patients with severe heart failure ) dar.

Other priorities are in the areas of transplant medicine, neuroscience with psychosocial medicine, cardiovascular medicine, genetics and infectious diseases.

Research

The Medical Faculty of Heidelberg is one of the most important research institutions in Germany. Particular, there is an intensive cooperation with other the Heidelberg-based research institutions such as the German Cancer Research Center, the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Accordingly, the treatment focuses the research focuses in the areas of infectious diseases, vascular ischemia and myogenic dysfunction, Neuroscience, Translational and individualized oncology, transplantation and individualized immunotherapy.

  • Cancer research is becoming increasingly important in the Heidelberg University Hospital. So 2013 Heidelberg scientists have unraveled the effects of ginger in the treatment of cancer patients after chemotherapy. The German Cancer Aid has supported this research with € 208,000 donations. Thus, molecular biologists were able to prove to the researcher Beate Niesler from the Institute of Human Genetics that are turned off by chemotherapy -induced nausea and vomiting by ingredients of ginger root. This allows the cancer patient's vital food intake tolerated. With ginger ingredients the vomiting center in the brain could be positively influenced. These recent findings of scientists enable " the use of ginger root in clinical practice ." " The relief organization founded by the doctor Mildred Scheel advocates, is that the cancer therapy continuously improved and adapted individually ," said Cancer Society Chief Executive Gerd Nettekoven.
  • The German Research Foundation ( DFG) has " self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells " set up at the University of Heidelberg, the University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center, the Collaborative Research Center ( SFB). The delivery volume of 9.3 million euros. An international research consortium under the leadership of Anthony Ho and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL ) is funded by the European Union since 2013 with a total of 6 million euros. The aim is to explore the role of stem cells in aging and age-related diseases of the bone marrow.
  • Heidelberger Cardiology is one of seven German university centers member of the German Center for Heart and Circulation Research. Under the title "Heidelberg University Research Center for Arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies - From Genes to Translation" causes, pathways and clinical questions of cardiomyopathies are mainly studied under the direction of Hugo Katus.
  • Scientists at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Medicine rely on a centralized European patient registry that collects data on a total of 26 rare metabolic disorders. If left untreated, these metabolic disorders can lead to death or severe organ damage. The European Union is promoting the " European network and registry for homocystinurias and methylation defects" (E - HOD ) with 28 project partners from 22 countries in the next three years with a total of 1.15 million euros.
  • Collaborative Research: SFB 638: " Dynamics of macromolecular complexes in biosynthetic transport ", SFB 873: " self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells," SFB 938: " milieu -specific control of immunological systems ", SFB -TR 77: " Liver Cancer - targeted by the molecular pathogenesis to therapy ", SFB -TR 125: " Knowledge and model-based surgery ", SFB / TR 23 " Vascular differentiation and Remodeling "

Teaching and Training

The Medical Faculty of Heidelberg to study about 3,400 medical students (2012 ). In October 2001, the reformed curriculum reform Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale ( HeiCuMed) was introduced, which aims at a practical education that was created in collaboration with Harvard Medical School in Boston.

As the only German university, the University of Heidelberg maintains two medical schools. The primary teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg is the University Hospital Mannheim.

One focus of the clinic is the training of non- physician's medical staff. The University Hospital of Heidelberg founded in 2005 together with other regional hospitals, the Academy for health professionals. Here are about 800 training places for nurses and technical assistants available.

Clinics

Most clinics of the University Hospital are located on the new scientific and medical campus at Im Neuenheimer Feld, some clinics are still in the old hospital Bergheim. Specifically, the University Hospital of Heidelberg, was divided into 15 clinics:

  • Medical Clinic ( Clinic Krehl, after Ludolf von Krehl )
  • Department of Surgery
  • Department of Anaesthesiology
  • Women's Hospital
  • Center for Child and Adolescent Medicine
  • Center for Psychosocial Medicine
  • Clinic for Oral, Dental and Maxillofacial Diseases
  • Eye Clinic
  • Department of Ear, Nose and Throat
  • Department of Neurology
  • Department of Neurosurgery
  • Skin Clinic
  • Department of Radiology
  • Foundation Orthopaedic University Hospital ( Heidelberg site - Schlierbach )
  • Thorax Clinic ( located in Heidelberg -Rohrbach )

In addition - in legal terms the University Hospital Heidelberg does not belong - but functionally the position of a clinic at the University Hospital Heidelberg engaging:

  • BG Trauma Clinic Ludwigshafen, Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery at the University of Heidelberg

There are also several Heidelberg University Hospitals associated institutions that perform further diagnostics and research:

  • Institute of Human Genetics
  • Institute of Immunology
  • Hygiene Institute
  • Institute of Medical Biometry and computer science
  • Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational and Social Medicine
  • Institute of Pathology
  • Institute for Transportation and Legal Medicine
  • Department of General Practice and Health Services Research

Important parameters (2012 )

  • Number of patients, stationary: 61 210 KHE ntgG area, 2,250 BPflV area
  • Number of patients on an outpatient basis: 229 621, of which 213 441 human medicine, dentistry 16,180
  • Plan Beds: 1,900
  • Average length of stay: 7.4 days
  • Case mix ( with over Lieger ): 109 975, case mix index ( with over Lieger ): 1,797
  • Students Summer Semester 2012: 3,398

History

Foundation

Heidelberger Surgery Foundation is a non-profit institution supporting the medicine. The Foundation is named " Heidelberger Stiftung Chirurgie" and is an unincorporated foundation under civil law. It was founded in the spring of 2003, when doctors, nurses and other staff of the University Hospital Heidelberg, and members of the public met with the aim to preserve the medical quality standards in Heidelberg, and expand.

The purpose is to promote academic medicine at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Surgery and the other locations in which the medical director of the clinic is also medical director of the local surgery. This is to the patient care in conjunction with the scientific mandate to research and teaching are supported.

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