Dr Orsolya Benedek fondly remembers the 1990s, when she was a student at the Medical University of Pécs. Orsolya is currently working at the University of Rostock at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene as a specialist, instructor, head of quality management, and director of the hygiene- and water microbiology laboratory. Read the interview of the University of Pécs with her!
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the period as a medic in Pécs?
The first is how much analogue education took place at the time, how minimal digitization was, with all its advantages and disadvantages. We had to fight harder to master the curriculum, but it was this active participation that allowed us to learn thinking, to think in context. Even today, I start making handwritten notes for lectures that are interesting to me, even though the material I have listened to is already available in digital form. Those university years are fixed in me to that extent.
What was the morale like at the time?
I attended the faculty in the early to mid-90s, it was still an independent university at the time. After many decades, I belonged to the first freshman class where admission success solely depended on academic performance. Just as the whole country was characterized by the search for a path at that time – what it means to live in a civic democracy, a market economy – so was the Medical University of Pécs: how to turn a socialist higher education institution into a high-quality, modern institution that preserves its traditions. At that time, a new Dialysis Centre was built, kidney transplantation began, and the organization of the Heart Institute began with the establishment of a cardiac catheter laboratory at the 2nd Surgery Clinic at Irgalmasok street.
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