Prof. Dr. med. Pascal Berberat
Prof. Berberat studied medicine in Bern (Switzerland) and Los Angeles (USA) and completed his training as a surgeon in Bern, Boston (USA) and Heidelberg. In 2007, he acquired his postdoctoral teaching qualification in Heidelberg before changing to the Klinikum rechts der Isar as a consultant surgeon. After completing a Master's degree in Medical Education (Heidelberg), he has headed the TUM Medical Education Center at the Faculty of Medicine since 2010 and was appointed to TUM’s newly established Chair of Medical Education in 2015. From 2017 to 2023, he served as Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Medicine. In October 2023, he was elected Vice Dean Academic and Student Affairs of the newly founded TUM School of Medicine and Health, and since November 2023 he also serves as Academic Program Director, Medicine. His responsibilities include program and curriculum development.
Thematic focus areas:
- Medical educational biographies and professional identity formation
- Dealing with existential borderline situations in everyday clinical practice
- Understanding teaching and learning processes to optimize evidence-based didactic methods
- Analysis of attitude, motivation and behavior of physicians as teachers
Short CV
2023
Vice Dean Academic and Student Affairs, TUM School of Medicine and Health
2023
Academic Program Director, Professional Profile Medicine, TUM School of Medicine and Health
2019-2023
First Dean of Studies, Faculty of Medicine, TUM
2017
Chair to the Deans of Studies, Technical University of Munich, TUM
2017-2019
Second Dean of Studies, Faculty of Medicine, TUM
2015
Chair & Associate Professor of Medical Education, TUM Medical Education Center, Faculty of Medicine, TUM
Director, TUM Medical Education Center, Faculty of Medicine, TUM
2013
Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, TUM
2010-2015
Director, TUM Medical Education Center, Faculty of Medicine, TUM
2008-2010
Master of Medical Education (MME), Faculty of Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (MME 2013)
2007-2012
Attending Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TUM
2007
Postdoctoral teaching qualification in Surgery/Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
2002-2007
Resident & Consultant, General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery; Head of Junior Research Group (SFB 405), Institute of Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital
2000-2002
Research Fellow, Immunobiology Research Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
1998-2000
Resident of Surgery, Department of General Surgery, University of Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland
1990-1997
Medical studies, University of Bern, Switzerland
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