Heidelberg University School of Medicine

The Heidelberg University School of Medicine (also known as the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg, German: Medizinische Fakultät Heidelberg) is one of twelve schools at the Heidelberg University. It was one of the four original faculties of the university in 1386. It comprises today 22 institutes and maintains a close relationship to the University Hospital Heidelberg.

Its medical degree program comprising two years of basic science, followed by the first of the two steps of the German medical licensing examination, and four years of clinical studies, has undergone a fundamental reform in 2001: From 2001 on, all medical students at Heidelberg University, University Hospital Heidelberg (as opposed to the Heidelberg University Faculty of Medicine in Mannheim) pursue a reformed six-year-long course named "HeiCuMed" ("Heidelberger Curriculum Medicinale"). This degree course is an adapted version of the Harvard Medical School curriculum.[1][2] Undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs of Heidelberg University Medical School have played a fundamental role in Heidelberg being awarded "University of Excellence" status by the German Universities Excellence Initiative.

Noted physicians

  • Markus Büchler
  • Vincenz Czerny
  • Thomas Erastus
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Erb
  • Werner Hacke
  • Harald zur Hausen
  • Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Ludolf von Krehl
  • Albrecht Kossel
  • Otto Meyerhof
  • Bert Sakmann

Rankings

University rankings
By subject – Global & National
QS Medicine 2022[3] =29  (1)
THE Clinical and Health 2023[4] =38  (2)
ARWU Clinical Medicine 2022[5] 17  (1)
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Medicine[6]
Overall study situation ● 1.6 –
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Study organisation ● 1.5 –
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Support in the study entry phase ● 9/14 pts.
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Publications per professor ● 23.1
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The Heidelberg University School of Medicine has been consistently ranked as one of top medical schools in Germany.[3][4][5]

In the national 2020 CHE University Ranking, the department is rated in the top group in 23 out of 25 criteria.[6]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ HeiCuMed - The Concept (German)
  2. ↑ University of Heidelberg - Faculty of Medicine Heidelberg - University of Heidelberg
  3. 1 2 "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022: Medicine". QS World University Rankings. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  4. 1 2 "World University Rankings 2023 by subject: clinical and health". Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  5. 1 2 "ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022 - Clinical Medicine". Academic Ranking of World Universities. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  6. 1 2 "Studying Medicine in Germany". CHE University Ranking. Retrieved 2020-12-31.

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