• Famulature
• Practical year

After several years, the city of Wolfsburg was once again represented at the Medical and Nursing Job Fair in Prague. The stand was very busy, as many people knew the city of Wolfsburg by name and Czech and English were also spoken here. This was due to the doctor Zuzana Kratochvilova, who works in the health department and comes from the Czech Republic herself. She was joined at the stand by Bernd-Michael Hilbig, the project manager for the promotion of business establishment at the City of Wolfsburg. Both were pleased to welcome many visitors to the fair who enquired about an internship, further training or a job. There were probably more than 100 conversations held. After two days at the job fair, they returned with a rucksack full of contact forms and the realization that "it was good that we presented the city of Wolfsburg and Wolfsburg Hospital. Now we have to use the contacts made by interested students, doctors and nursing staff to make them an interesting offer for an internship or a job," said Andreas Bauer, the city councillor responsible for the health division.

The Wolfsburg stand at the Jobdays in Prague

Instead of renovating the existing central surgery area at Wolfsburg Hospital, a completely new building is now to be erected, which will also house other areas such as the urology clinic and radiology. The extension to the hospital is now to be planned at a cost of 14 million euros. This was decided by the Wolfsburg City Council at its meeting in September 2024. Construction costs are expected to total 120 million euros. The state of Lower Saxony will contribute to the costs with financial support. This will future-proof Wolfsburg Hospital for the coming decades and secure medical care for patients.

For the third time after 2015 and 2016, the city of Wolfsburg presented itself at the medical job fair "Operation Career" in Berlin. In the dbb Forum, interested students and doctors were able to learn a lot about and from the various employers from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the day before the second Advent. A total of 28 clinics, federal associations and organizations, as well as the city of Wolfsburg as the only municipality, presented themselves in the large reception hall. More than 250 people took advantage of the offer. They came - as we learned from various conversations - not only from Berlin, but also from Saxony, Hesse and Brandenburg.

The offer of the fair was rounded off by free professional application photos and altogether 21 lectures to technical and organizational career information. Thus the project manager physician promotion Bernd Michael Hilbig gave in a lecture with the topic ?settling down - why straight in Wolfsburg? views of the support of settlement-willing physicians*innen. A job board in the exhibition showed those interested various job offers at a glance. The visitors learned a lot about the possibilities of further career development. And some of them probably remembered the city of Wolfsburg and its support program.

Cooperation agreement signed

The hospitals of the cities of Wolfenbüttel, Wolfsburg and Braunschweig want to further expand their cooperation. On Tuesday, May 17, Wolfenbüttel's Mayor Ivica Lukanic, Wolfsburg's Lord Mayor Dennis Weilmann and Lord Mayor Dr. Thorsten Kornblum signed a cooperation agreement together with the managing directors of the three hospitals Axel Burghardt (Wolfenbüttel Municipal Hospital), Wilken Köster (Wolfsburg Hospital) and Dr. Andreas Goepfert (Braunschweig Municipal Hospital) at Braunschweig City Hall.

The agreement is intended to intensify the existing cooperation. Concrete goals are the creation of a jointly used diagnostics center, the strengthening of the study location East Lower Saxony and the intensification of activities to ensure the supply of specialist personnel to the clinics. In addition, shared facilities - including a service center - are to be examined. There are also plans to create a shared midwifery study program as a fourth study location in Lower Saxony.

In addition, the hospital managements want to present themselves more jointly to third parties and the public with regard to important topics and interests. More regular meetings and exchanges between the clinic managements have been agreed. In addition, the chairmen of the supervisory boards will meet at least every six months in the future.

"With the agreement signed today, the clinics are declaring that they want to work together even more closely than before in view of the major challenges of the coming years and jointly represent their interests," said Mayor Dr. Thorsten Kornblum. "It is important to me that we strengthen and further develop the study location of eastern Lower Saxony together."

Dennis Weilmann, Lord Mayor of the City of Wolfsburg, added: "Inter-municipal cooperation is an important factor for a successful region, from which we all ultimately benefit. This is now demonstrated once again with the expansion of cooperation in the healthcare sector by our clinics. That is why I am very pleased to be able to sign this cooperation agreement on behalf of the city of Wolfsburg. Acting together and supporting each other in many areas and concrete projects in the future is absolutely the right way to go. This was demonstrated not least by the major challenges in the area of health during the pandemic."

"Cooperation is beneficial to all for hospitals under municipal ownership," emphasizes Wolfenbüttel's mayor Ivica Lukanic. "The agreement signed today by the municipal hospitals of three important cities is a clear signal of how important it is to us to provide optimal medical care for our citizens. Strengthening the study location of eastern Lower Saxony contributes to ensuring a permanently sufficient medical supply in our region and we municipalities are the driving force in this."

City of Wolfsburg
Health division
Bernd-Michael Hilbig (Project Manager Medical Promotion)
Rosenweg 1a
38446 Wolfsburg

Phone: 0175 5575173 or 05361 28-5144
E-mail: bernd-michael.hilbig@stadt.wolfsburg.de