Student teaching and postgraduate training

The Department of Internal Medicine III fulfils its university training and teaching obligations in a variety of ways. In addition to lectures and seminars, various practical courses and patient-related courses (bedside teaching) are offered. The academic staff at our clinic are currently supervising more than 20 doctoral students.

Staff members are significantly involved in the Master's online programme "Advanced Oncology", an initiative of the Faculty of Medicine and the Comprehensive Cancer Centre Ulm. In 2013, a joint initiative with the European School of Oncology (ESO) was launched with the start of a further blended learning programme, the "Competence Certificate in Lymphoma", a one-year training programme on the biology and clinic of malignant lymphoma.

The research groups at the Department of Internal Medicine III offer doctoral theses in the following areas:

• Allogeneic bone marrow and blood stem cell transplantation (Dr Elisa Sala)
• Acute myeloid leukaemia (Prof. Dr Konstanze Döhner)
• Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (Prof. Dr Stephan Stilgenbauer)
• Clinical studies (PD Dr Frank Stegelmann)
• Myeloproliferative diseases (Prof Dr Konstanze Döhner, PD Dr Frank Stegelmann)
• Molecular haematopoiesis (Prof. Dr Michaela Feuring)
• Mechanisms of leukaemogenesis (PD Dr Daniel Mertens)

Modern molecular genetic techniques (PCR, sequencing, DNA cloning, gene expression analysis, next-generation sequencing, etc.) are used in the experimental doctoral theses. A further focus is on the implementation/analysis of clinical studies. In principle, you have the opportunity to apply for a scholarship as part of the Faculty of Medicine's doctoral programme. Depending on your interest, we may ask you to contact the respective project leader directly.