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University for Digital Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry (DTMD)
The DTMD University is an international network of university institutes, academic teaching practices, professors and medical specialists renowned throughout Europe as well as international professional associations. As a private university under Luxembourg law, it is operated and coordinated by a private Luxembourg body.
The headquarters of the university is located in the castle at L 9516 Wiltz. The student secretariat is located in L-1273 Luxembourg, 19 rue de Bitbourg. DTMD University also has seminar, event and high quality catering facilities at the Bel Air in Echternach.
DTMD University is a university supported and managed by its founders and owners. The founders (Prof. Dr. André Reuter, President, Prof. Dr. Ralf Rössler, Dean, Prof. Dr. Daniel Grubeanu, Vice Dean for Teaching and Innovation) form the University's Executive Committee. They are supported by the Vice Deans Prof. Dr. Ata Anil (International Studies & Affairs) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Hartmann (Nursing Management) as well as the heads of the DTMD Institutes for Holistic Health Management and Nursing (IGGP), Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schustern and for Manual Medicine (IMM), Prof. Dr. Rigobert Klett.
The aim of DTMD is to offer postgraduate continuing education master courses in medicine and dentistry as well as special education and continuing education certificates for dental technicians. In addition, the DTMD University is intensively involved in the further training of nursing staff for mobile and stationary care. Digitalisation will fundamentally change the working world in nursing. New technologies will open up new perspectives but will also redesign existing processes and fields of work.
Digitisation in medicine and dentistry
In medicine and dentistry, the term digitisation is interpreted in different ways:
- Technical interpretation
Digitalisation refers to the conversion of data and information from an analogue to a digital representation and storage form. - Organisational interpretation
Digitisation describes the transfer of tasks that were previously performed by humans to the computer or robot.
Future-oriented postgraduate continuing education measures must do justice to both interpretations.
While the technical interpretation of the conversion from analogue to digital data hardly causes any problems worth mentioning today, the transfer of tasks from humans to machines is much more complex and difficult.
There are technical as well as legal and social reasons for this:
- Lack of willingness and competence to use digital technologies and processes,
- a lack of task-oriented initial and continuing training both in the craft sector and at university level.
The increasing digitalisation at all levels of companies and society leads to new demands on modern health care and aims at
- the establishment of digital infrastructures as a basis for the exchange of data and knowledge between supply and research across locations,
- the networking of actors and process optimisation through better and faster information and communication technologies,
- the implementation of interactive ICT technologies for patient-friendly medical technology and the empowered patient who is informed and capable of acting,
- sustainable efficiency optimization and savings potential for the health care system and new markets for companies
Organisation of DTMD
The organisation chart of DTMD University shows the organisational structure of the university as well as its distribution of tasks and communication relationships in graphical form. The organisational structure of DTMD follows a simple three-pillar concept (strategy and organisation, study and research operations as well as teaching and innovation), the umbrella of which is the university's executive committee.
DTMD is an owner-managed university in which university effectiveness and efficiency guide and determine the planning and control of the decisions and activities of the DTMD University Executive Committee. The aim of the DTMD University Executive Committee is to ensure a high degree of target fulfilment while at the same time ensuring sustainability and cost-effectiveness, and to place the university on a firm organisational and financial footing.
The organisation chart of the DTMD University integrates a stringent structure and a continuously flexible and dynamic process order, thus building a pragmatic bridge between function and process orientation. This applies to the provision of centralised and decentralised functions and services for teaching and research, as well as for the generation of knowledge from university value creation in teaching and research. The coordination and control of information, value creation and processes within and across universities is the responsibility of the Executive Board or the specialists appointed by it.
An extensive spectrum of tasks in university self-administration requires an orderly resource and capacity planning and provision not only for teaching and research, but also for the administrative requirements of a regular university routine.
Prof. Dr. André Reuter
PresidentThe President determines the strategic orientation of the university and its implementation in teaching and research and is thus also responsible for quality management and quality assurance of the academic teaching and research processes as well as the examination system of the university. He is responsible for public relations at DTMD University.
As Chairman of the University's Appointments Committee, it is his task, in consultation with the Dean, to ensure the transparent and high-quality provision of resources for teaching and research (full-time professors, part-time professors and lecturers, extra-professional professors, academic staff).
Prof. Dr. Ralf Rössler
DeanThe Dean of DTMD University is responsible for the study and research operations of DTMD University. As Administrative Director, he is also responsible for the university's employer function, has disciplinary responsibility for the employees, decides on questions of budget management and resource management and is responsible for the organisational implementation of the university's budget.
He drafts and conceives new study programmes and curricula in consultation with his Vice Deans. This also includes the recruitment of highly qualified lecturers. As Chairman of the Examination Office, he is responsible for the quality and proper conduct of university examinations.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Grubeanu
Vice-DeanThe Vice Dean "Teaching and Innovation Management" organises, controls and is responsible for the postgraduate Master's studies at DTMD University in North Africa, the United Emirates, India and Thailand. It has the right to supervise and instruct the students in the proper performance of the associated official duties in teaching, supervision and examination.
His activities range from the clarification of fundamental questions of university policy and the perspective planning of postgraduate study programmes to official matters and personal questions of the members of the faculty.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Hartmann
Vice-Dean Nursing management
Prof. Dr. Ata Anil
Vice-Dean International Studies & Affairs
Lucien André Reuter
Head of Projects & IT-Management
