Under this title, several experts discussed the planned new medical degree course at the University of Oldenburg for an hour in the live broadcast from Nordwestradio on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 at the Wechloy campus. Reto Weiler, Rector of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Hans-Rudolf Raab, Director of Oldenburg Hospital, Bernd Lücke, Chairman of the Hartmannbund in Lower Saxony and Marianne Jansen, a doctor with experience in foreign training programmes, took part in the discussion. The discussion was very controversial, as Oldenburg wants to be the first university in Germany to offer a medical degree programme with a Bachelor's and Master's degree. Together with the Rijks University in Groningen, the University of Oldenburg wants to set up the new "European Medical School" and offer an internationally recognised double degree.

This degree is seen by the universities as consistent with the "Bologna Process", which aims to convert all degree programmes to the Bachelor's and Master's system by the end of 2010. Parts of the medical profession, on the other hand, fear a deterioration in medical training, new degrees without a clear professional profile and apparently a devaluation of their own traditional position.

An exciting programme from Nordwestradio unterwegs, which you can listen to here.