Anniversary: 25 years of the Emergency Medicine Working Group

12/16/2025

Emergency medicine courses organised by medical students for medical students: A working group that has been cooperating closely with the emergency services for 25 years.

25 years of the Emergency Medicine Working Group: The current tutors with Professor Thomas Wurmb, founding member Dr Andreas Schoefinius and former AGN head Dr Michael Schultheiß. (Image: Uniklinikum Würzburg)

The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Notfallmedizin (AGN; Emergency Medicine Working Group) has been in existence at Würzburg University Medicine for 25 years. It is based on a student initiative that has been an integral part of emergency medicine teaching at the Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy at Würzburg University Hospital ever since.

An anniversary celebration took place in mid-November 2025 in the lecture theatre of the Centre for Operative Medicine as part of the event "Update Paediatric Emergency Medicine". Over 200 guests, students, teaching staff and representatives of the emergency services attended and honoured the extraordinary commitment of the student initiative.

Honouring the tutors

In his welcoming address, Professor Thomas Wurmb, Medical Director of the AGN and Head of the clinic's Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, emphasised the special importance of the AGN for teaching.

Thomas Wurmb emphasised the commitment of the tutors with professional experience in emergency medicine who, in addition to their medical studies, pass on emergency medical skills to their fellow students with great dedication, professionalism and enthusiasm.

Without this continuous commitment, the high quality of student emergency training in Würzburg would not be possible.

Past and present of the AGN

A central point of the programme was a look back at the development of the working group. Emily Fuchshuber and Maren Dieckmann (current and former AGN directors respectively) took the audience through the 25-year history and showed the current status of the AGN, which now has a highly professional organisational and didactic structure - with a range of courses from basic measures to resuscitation and special training.