Medical School of Strasbourg and University of Strasbourg Tumultuous history at the crossroads of the Rhine

Medical School of Strasbourg and University of Strasbourg

Tumultuous history at the crossroads of the Rhine

• 1540 : Medicine is taught at the Lutheran College founded by Jean Sturm

• 1566 : Maximilian II raises the college to the rank of an academy

• 1621 : Ferdinand II converts the academy into a university

• 1681 : Louis XIV confirms the university

• 1794 : changes into a school for studying health by the convention

• 1802 : transformation into a school of medicine

• 1808 : rebirth of the faculty under Napoleon

History (II)

• 1870 : Annexation of Alsace by Germany and from 1871-1872 we had a free medical school in French but in 1872 it was transferred to Nancy.

• 1918 : the Faculty becomes French once again

• 1939 : the Faculty moves to Clermont-Ferrand and came back in 1945

• 1969 : integration of the Faculty in the University Louis Pasteur

• 2009 : creation of the University of Strasbourg from the three former universities (scientific and medical; human sciences; law school)

University of Strasbourg (1/01/09)

• Set up from the former universities

• University Louis Pasteur (scientific and medical university)
• Marc Bloch University ( human sciences university)
• Robert Schuman University (law school)

Aims of the new university

• the development of the basic missions of the university i.e. research, training, professional integration based on interdisciplinary collaboration and a synergy interactions of all the fields

• the major availability of the teaching/research staff, the administrative staff and the students to allow the best possible studies and the work opportunities.

• the development of the leadership to face international competition with better assets and more visibility.

The UdS is hosting

• 42 000 students (21% foreign students),

• 11 423 trainees in continuous education,

• 5 230 members of staff (of which 1500 come from national research institutions)

• It is constituted of 37 components i.e. training units, faculties, schools, institutes

• and 86 research units (Institute National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medical [INSERM] and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNR])

• covering a surface of 600 000 sqm with 110 buildings.

All the fields in higher education are covered

• 50 Master programs

• 26 Bachelor programs

• 34 Professional bachelor programs

• 9 doctoral schools

• 2535 doctoral students (380 defenses/year)

• A European Doctoral College

Medicine studies

• First cycle : 2 years preclinical studies ( competitive examination at the end of the first year with a fixed numerous clausus)

• Second cycle : 4 years clinical studies and hospital training periods

• Compulsory national ranking tests for access into the 3rd cycle

• Third cycle – specialization

• general medicine 3 years
• other specialized studies 4 to 5 years

Research Master’s

• Biological imaging

• Neuroscience

• Cellular and molecular physiopathology

• Public health and environment

• Ethics : life, norms and societies, medical ethics and bioethics

Departments

• Evaluation committee for the theoretical and clinical teaching of the faculty

• Department of pedagogy

• Multimedia department – TICE

• University and hospital department of ethics

• Department of history and philosophy of life and health science-heritage and museum conservation

• Department of general medicine

• Department of human and social sciences

• Research commission

Research activities

• 7 INSERM units (national label)

• 4 University units (UdS label)

• Main fields :

• neurosciences
• Physiopathology of inflammation and cancer
• Immunity
• Microbiology
• Cancer
• Biomaterials : biological processes and interface biophysics

Teachers and Students

• 139 Professors

• 100 Associate Professors

• 134 university hospital assistants and university clinic managers-hospital assistants

• 5500 registered students (1800 1styear)

• 24% foreign students