The Institute for Family Medicine at the University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, consists of an interdisciplinary team (general practitioners, psychologists, sociologists, lawyers and physiotherapists).
Institutional research is being conducted in the following main fields:
eHealth and telemedicine
The future care of chronically ill patients
Education and (postgraduate) training research
Strategies against physician shortage
Director of the Institute is Prof. Dr. Jost Steinhäuser.
He is a GP and the deputy head of medical education at the University of Lübeck.
The Institute of Family Medicine is committed to students’ undergraduate education, contemporary research in family medicine as well as health services research derived from latest evidence. It is also providing the postgraduate training program in family medicine specialty training in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein named “Kompetenzzentrum Weiterbildung Allgemeinmedizin Schleswig-Holstein”
Teaching
The education and teaching of the multitude of various subjects within the area of family medicine is built upon conveying not only the specific characteristics, properties and complexity of general practice but also the pleasure that may come along with practicing in this discipline. The latter acts as an important additional supporting column standing in direct interaction with the pure growth of knowledge.
Research
As a clinical-generalist discipline, the family medicine serves as a fertile ground for a variety of distinct areas of research, addressing a great number of health problems. Questions of direct implications and immediate relevance for practice are of utter importance and constitute the main focus of the Institute of Family Medicine.
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History
Since 1974 family medicine has been taught at the Medical School of Lübeck. The first assistant lecturers and at the same time founder of the "Lübeck Modell" were Prof. Dr. Diedrich Dieckhoff, Dr. Wolfgang Bredow and Dr. Carsten Groth. Dr. Dietrich Klepsch and Dr. Heilwig Hooß followed later on. In 1998, Prof. Dr. Jens-Martin Träder received a university teaching position. Dr. Frank Niebuhr followed in 2001 and Andreas von Kügelen in 2002. In the meantime, the former Medical School of Lübeck became the Medical University of Lübeck in 1985 and finally, the University of Lübeck in 2002.
The Institute of Family Medicine at the University of Lübeck was founded in 2010. In 2011, Prof. Dr. Träder was appointed to the institute's educational professorship. Since October 2014 Prof. Dr. Jost Steinhäuser has been head of the Institute of Family Medicine.