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Seyed Arash Alawi1, Lukas Fabian Busch1, Anne Limbourg1
1Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Klinik für Plastische, Ästhetische, Hand- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Zentrum für Schwerbrandverletzte.
Background:
The workload of university hospitals and hospitals with university association includes clinical patient care as well as teaching and research in particular. The current development with focus on financial issues leads to a reduction of teaching and research capacities. Economic focus in university medicine changes priorities of academic surgery.
Methods:
An online survey questioned medical students with regard to subjective assessment of quality of the academic body of university hospitals and current teaching quality. Students evaluated the current quality of teaching of postdoctoral lecturers in relation to their career stage and made suggestions for quality of teaching improvement.
Results:
A total of 166 students participated in the survey. Of 123 students, about 78 % stated that the reputation of postdoctoral lecturers increases with the habilitation but about 85 % stated that professional expectations also rise. About 43 % of the students aim to achieve a postdoctoral lecture qualification.
Discussion:
Among students academic career is still attractive, but restructuring and modernization of established working models is an essential prerequisite.
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