The Charité A Comprehensive Overview U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 1 The Charité: An Introduction CONTENTS 1. An Overview: Facts and Figures 2. The History of the Charité 3. Education and Research 4. Current Issues 5. Charité International 6. Financing U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 1. An Overview: Facts and Figures U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 1. An Overview: Facts and Figures The Four Charité Campuses in Berlin Campus Berlin Buch Research & Teaching Campus Charité Mitte Maximum Care Hospital Research & Teaching Campus Virchow-Klinikum Maximum Care Hospital Campus Benjamin Franklin Research & Teaching Maximum Care Hospital Research & Teaching U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 1. An Overview: Facts and Figures Organization Science Figures Reputation Four campuses with a total 14 SFB Special Research 3,001 hospital beds Over half of the German surface area of 560.000 m² Centres including the Average hospital stay: 5.82 Nobel Prize Winners in Excellence Cluster, and days Medicine und Physiology 17 Charité Centres two Graduate Schools Inpatients:140,000 made their discoveries including 103 clinics and Outpatients: 615,000 whilst working at the institutes. > 150 M € in Third Party Charité Funding Annual Turnover Subsiduary Companies > 1.5 Billion € World Health Summit Labor Berlin GmbH > 7000 Students in under the patronage of the AGZ Medicine, Dentistry and 16,000 Employees German Chancellor ZTB Nursing Sciences (including third party CFM funding employees) U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 1. An Overview: Facts and Figures Focus Ranking: The Charité is Germany‘s leading university hospital for the fifth time in a row U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 1. An Overview: Facts and Figures Charité Mitte-Campus U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 2.The History of the Charité U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 2. The History of the Charité From Plague Asylum to a Modern Universtity Hospital A 300 Year History of Health Care Service 1710 19 the Century Today Founded in 1710 as a plague In the 19th century the Charite Today the Charité is one of the asylum outside the perimeters of developed into an internationally largest and most prestigious the city of Berlin. renouned center of medical university hospitals in Europe expertise. U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 2. The History of the Charité Scientific Excellence in the Early Twentieth Century Nobel Prizes Awarded to Charité Colleagues Emil Adolf von Behring: Paul Ehrlich: Werner Forßmann: Robert Koch: Otto Heinrich Warburg: Nobel Prize Nobel Prize Nobel Prize Nobel Prize Nobel Prize Laureate 1901 Laureate 1908 Laureate 1956 Laureate 1905 Laureate 1931 U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 2. The History of the Charité Teaching and Practicing Medicine in a Divided City German Reunification / The Start of the Integration Process U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 2. The History of the Charité The Double Merger Process Integration of Four Formerly Independent Institutions 1710 1992 1995 2003 2005 ∕ ∕ Establishment Integration of Integration of the Integration of the Berlin of the Charité medicine-related Rudolf Virchow Benjamin Franklin University institutes of the Hospital (former Hospital (former Medicine Act, former GDR Medical School of Medical School of December Academy of the Berlin Free the Berlin Free 2005 Sciences University) University) Current Campus: Campus: Campus: Campus: Campuse Charité Mitte Berlin Buch Virchow Klinikum Benjamin Franklin s 2013 CCM CBB CVK CBF U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 3. EDUCATION AND RESEARCH U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 3. Education and Research WG Reformed Curriculum Dieter-Scheffner Center Reformed curriculum Modular curriculum Traditional curriculum Change of legal framework 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 Main goals: The Changing . Integrated, modular structure Curriculum . Competency-based . Learner-based . Patient-based U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 14 3. Education and Research 3. Education and Research The Charité is one of the Leading Medical Faculties in Europe . Over 3,700 scientists are involved in more than 1,000 projects, working groups and collaborative partnerships. The focus of these research initiatives is the translational interaction of both experimental life-science research and patient-oriented clinical research. In 2017, current state funding for research and teaching is approx. 207 million euros. In 2016, the Charité‘s third party funding for research was approx. 153 million euros. This was by far one of the highest third party incomes of all German medical faculties. The Charité is focusing its efforts on the following six core research areas: neuroscience, oncology, regenerative therapies, cardiology, 15 immunology, and genetics U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 4. CURRENT ISSUES • The Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) • Refurbishment and Sanitation of Charité Premises • World Health Summit • The Charité - Heart of a Social City U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 4. Current Issues The Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) Towards a Novel and Unique Translational Platform in Germany . Bridging an academic health center Practice with a specialized center for bio- medicine . Highly attractive for excellent scientists . Overcome barrier: From bedside to bench & from bench to bedside . Better career opportunities for translational junior scientists U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 4. Current Issues Complete Overhaul of the High-Rise Building at the Charité Mitte-Campus . Thorough refurbishment: Highly modern wards and rooms . New facade design . New building for the central operational theatres and intensive care area . Construction of a new Emergency and Accident Department . Completed: 2016 U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 18 19 Patronage . Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany . Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the Academia European Commission . Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France Private Civil Sector Society Policy Makers 4. Current Issues The World Health Summit (WHS) . Annual conference of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies . Organized by Charité in collaboration with the National Academies of Sciences of over 67 countries of the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP) . Founded in 2009 at the 1st World Health Summit . Serves as a medical and scientific forum of excellence - an international network of prestigious health institutions dealing with scientific, political, and economic issues related to medicine and global health . 200 speakers, 40 sessions + Berlin Health Week . 1,200 participants on-site + 1,200 via livestream from 90 countries U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 21 M8 ALLIANCE Vision: To Harness Academic Excellence and Improve Global Health 4. Current Issues „The Heart of a Social City“ .Social Pediatric Centre .Teddy Bear Hospital .Cooperation with support groups for rape and domestic violence victims .„Beende Dein Schweigen… nicht Dein Leben“ (support group for suicidal Turkish women) .Ethnopsychiatric Outpatient Clinic .Prevention Project „Dunkelfeld“ .Cooperation with the Berlin Treatment Centre for Torture Victims .Cooperation with outpatient clinics for the homeless .„Charité hilft“ medical/psychotraumatic care for refugees U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 22 5. CHARITÉ INTERNATIONAL U N I V E R S I T Ä T S M E D I Z I N B E R L I N 5. Charité International • Burdenko Akademie Voronezh • M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow • Northwestern University Imperial College • Russian Academy of Feinberg School of London Medical Sciences, Medicine, Chicago Moscow • Johns Hopkins University Gachon University School of Medicine, of Medicine and Science Baltimore Université René Descartes Incheon (Sorbonne Paris Cité) Russia Paris Tbilisi State Medical University 2nd Tashkent State Med. Instituto Superior de Institute,Tbilisi, Georgia Las Sciencias Medicas La Habana • Tongji Medical University, Wuhan • Zheijiang Association of University of Nairobi Science and Technology, School of Medicine, Hangzhou University of Nairobi NUS Yong Loo • Peking Union Medical Sao Paulo Lin School of College and Hospital and Sao Paulo Medicine Chinese Academy of Singapore Medical Sciences, Beijing Monash University The Charité‘s International Network Melbourne/Australia The Charité has over 100 international partners.