Landshut University of Applied Sciences was able to take another significant step on the way to the introduction of the new midwifery course. University President, Professor Dr. Karl Stoffel, has appointed Austrian Anne Wiedermann as the new professor of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies. "We are very pleased that the new course will soon be launched," said Stoffel. "Prof. Wiedermann is a young colleague with outstanding scientific qualifications whom we are happy to appoint as Professor of Midwifery."
Prof. Anne Wiedermann will be relocating to Landshut from the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, where she currently works part-time as Senior Lecturer in midwifery. The 38-year-old divides her remaining working time between freelance midwifery and her doctoral studies. Her dissertation at the University of Lübeck is focused on experience-based quality measurement in the field of obstetrics. This is the first time in Bavaria that a midwife has been given a university professorship.
Wiedermann will start work in Landshut in mid-April
Tyrolean-born Wiedermann will take up her professorship in just under three months. Much still needs to be done before the scheduled start of studies in the 2020/21 winter semester. As Prof. Dr. Konstantin Ziegler, Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies explained. "this will include designing the curriculum, close networking with regional hospitals and ongoing coordination with various government departments." For the time being, this course is targeted at certified midwives for advanced qualification purposes. The second step will involve the provision of cost-effective training courses.
Wiedermann is looking forward to starting work with great anticipation. "Following my own studies in midwifery” she says, “I worked in an established academic training system for midwives for seven years. Setting up the new course at Landshut University of Applied Sciences and contributing my experience and ideas is particularly appealing to me now." Which is why she chose Landshut. "It’s a small university with extremely flexible structures. The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies is very young and has great potential for development."
Landshut University of Applied Sciences was one of the few Bavarian universities to be awarded the contract to offer the midwifery course in collaboration with regional hospitals in 2018. "We already have experience at our university in transforming specialist training into meaningful, academic education," says Ziegler. The Sign Language Interpreting course was introduced in the 2015/16 winter semester. Now the part-time advanced midwifery course is scheduled to start in October 2020, with around an estimated 20 first-semester students.
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