Emergency medicine has a long tradition at the University of Ulm. Key development steps towards the modern emergency doctor system and current emergency medical care as it exists in Germany today have their origins in Ulm.

The Section for Emergency Medicine is an important pillar in the teaching programme of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. The head of the Emergency Medicine Section is the lecturer at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and is responsible for the organisation and implementation of student teaching in the field of emergency medicine.

Lectures, practical courses and seminars are held here for students in clinical studies, which teach the cross-sectional subject Q8, Emergency Medicine as Continuous Medical Education from the "First Medical Aid" course in the 6th semester to the additional qualification in Emergency Medicine. Teaching is very practice-orientated and takes place in small groups wherever possible.

In addition, the Department of Emergency Medicine also offers a special emergency internship for dental students, which is unique in this form in Germany.

The "Q8 - Emergency Medicine" consists of the following sections:

• "First medical aid" course with an accompanying lecture of one hour per week per semester and a three-day practical course of three hours each
• Lecture "Emergency Medicine" lecture with 1 hour per week per semester and seminar "Emergency Room".
  The seminar "Emergency Room" consists of a seminar lecture with 1 hour per week per semester as well as the processing of casuistics with 1 hour per week per semester, in which hybrid actor patients are used in close cooperation with the Institute for Anaesthesiological Pathophysiology and Procedure Development and its director Prof. Dr. Dr. Radermacher.
• Block internship in emergency medicine with an internship over five days of three hours each
• A one-day ambulance internship in which the students travel in an ambulance of the regular rescue service as interns.
• For students in their practical year who are completing their anaesthesiology tertial in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Ulm University Hospital, the programme also includes a multi-day internship in an ambulance.
  The Emergency Medicine Section is also involved in the teaching events "Disaster Medicine", "AINS", "Internal Medicine for Dental Students" and "Expedition Medicine".
• As mentioned, a special emergency internship tailored to the specific needs of dentists is offered for dental students at the University of Ulm, which runs over two days with three lessons each.

The Emergency Medicine Section's courses regularly receive excellent ratings in student evaluations and are honoured with both the "Best Teaching Clinic" award from the Medical Student Council and the "Ulm University Teaching Award".