Dresden
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About Dresden
Dresden is a beautiful town in the middle east of Germany. It's the capital of the state of Saxony and known for its breath-taking baroc arquitecture. The river Elbe goes right through the city and divides it into a new part (Newtown) and an old part (Oldtown). So you can enjoy a nice atmosphere while walking through the "old Dresden" and meet a lot of young and crazy people and students in the Newtown.Therefore Dresden is a nice place to study. At about 30,000 students live here and around 200 students start tostudy medicine every year.
Accommodation
You will live in a flat-shared community with a good public transportation facility.
Hospitals
Professional Exchange
You can choose any department in the university hospital you desire. If you don't speak German we would recommand you the surgical departments, especially heart surgery. The working time will be 8 hours a day with a lunch break. Please bring your own stethoscope.
Research Projects
We have 2 research projects in Dresden.
1. Pharmocological Research - patho-physiological and pharmacological studies on human heart and bladder
- Cardiac electrophysiology and antiarrhythmic drugs in health and disease
- Regulation of cardiac potassium channels by accessory subunits
- Remodeling in atrial fibrillation
- Drugs affecting physiology and pathophysiology of detrusor muscle
2. Diagnosis of olfactory loss using electrophysiological and various psychophysical approaches
- psychophysical and electrophysiological measures of olfactory function
- physical examination of the nose, ears, and throat
- participants will receive education in human electrophysiology, including EEG recordings, recordings of event-related potentials, analysis in the frequency domain
Travelling
Close to Dresden you'll find mountains called "Elbsandsteingebirge" which are next to the boarder of the Czech Republic and if you like to walk , it's a beautiful place to spend some time. Berlin isn't far from Dresden neither. It just takes you a couple of hours to get there by train.
Within Dresden
Since 2005, the famous reconstructed church "Frauenkirche" is open again for public visits and concerts so that you can enjoy this amazing building of the baroque era. But there are more special tourist features in the city center like the "Zwinger", the opera house "Semperoper"
Around Dresden
Local Exchange Team
- 3rd year students: Juliane Lenk, Anne Schmidtgen
- 4th year students: Franziska Seltmann, Stefanie Wenzel, Matthias Streif, (Felix Petersen)
- 5th year students: Johanna Roth, Kristin Dietze, Claudia Grätz, Victoria Linse
- 6th year students: Susanne Hentschel
Contact
austausch_dresden@bvmd.de
German cities offered for exchange
Aachen, Berlin, Bochum, Bonn, Cologne (Köln), Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erlangen, Essen, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Gießen, Göttingen, Greifswald, Halle, Hamburg, Hannover, Heidelberg, Homburg, Jena, Kiel, Leipzig, Lübeck, Magdeburg, Mainz, Mannheim, Marburg, Munich LMU (München), Munich TU (München), Münster, Regensburg, Rostock, Tübingen, Ulm, Witten-Herdecke, Würzburg
