Start of the coming winter semester / Application possible until 15 July

Oldenburg. The University of Oldenburg is offering an innovative and interdisciplinary Bachelor's and Master's degree programme from the coming winter semester: It is called "Physics, Technology and Medicine" (PTM) and is aimed at technology enthusiasts with an interest in the natural sciences who see their future in medicine and medical technology. Interested students can still apply until 15 July. The degree programme was conceived by Future Prize winner, physicist and doctor Prof. Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier, private lecturer Dr Stefan Uppenkamp and physicist Prof. Dr Volker Hohmann - also winner of the German Future Prize - together with other Oldenburg physicists, engineers and doctors.

The new course programme combines practice-oriented and interdisciplinary content from physics and electrical engineering with theoretical knowledge from medicine, biology and psychology. "With PTM, we have developed a convincing alternative to traditional physics or medical studies," explains Kollmeier. Anyone for whom pure physics is too dry, but medicine does not go into enough scientific and technical detail, is in the right place at PTM.

The three-year Bachelor's degree programme in Physics, Technology and Medicine (B.Sc.) prepares students for academic appointments in medical technology or IT in hospitals. Students earn two thirds of their credit points in the fields of mathematics/computer science, physics/natural sciences, engineering and medicine. The remaining third is made up of credits in interdisciplinary professionalisation modules, a training module and the Bachelor's thesis.

The four-semester Master's degree course "Physics, Technology and Medicine (M.Sc.)" aims for a stronger specialisation with a view to independent research activities. The focus is on neurotechnology and imaging, medical acoustics and audiology as well as biosignal processing and medical theory.

The new degree programme at the University of Oldenburg is run by School V - School of Mathematics and Science in cooperation with the young School VI - School of Medicine and Health Sciences. "We have taken the unique opportunity to establish such an interdisciplinary degree programme. It integrates important elements of our human medicine degree programme, the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen, and optimally prepares graduates for later research work in medicine and medical technology," emphasises Kollmeier. At the partner university in Groningen, it is even possible for particularly successful students from a comparable Bachelor's degree programme to join the medical degree programme as lateral entrants after an adaptation year. "We are also striving for a similar close exchange between the disciplines in Oldenburg," says Kollmeier.

Applications for the admission-restricted Bachelor's and Master's degree course "Physics, Technology and Medicine" are still possible until 15 July.