Promotion of medical care

Are you considering where to complete your clinical traineeship and practical year? Are you looking for a suitable location for your specialist training? Would you like to set up a GP or specialist practice and are therefore looking for a location for your own practice or employment opportunities?

Then Wolfsburg is the right destination for you as a family-friendly, green and dynamic city with attractive conditions and a wide range of support services.

News:

• Guidelines for the promotion of general practitioner and specialist care in Wolfsburg
• Guidelines for the promotion of students at the Wolfsburg Medical Campus

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• Current newsletter 31/2025

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• Medical Students

  Wolfsburg physicians of tomorrow!

  Attractive clinical traineeships are available at Wolfsburg Hospital and the Wolfsburg Health Department as well as in numerous practices in the city.

  You can also complete your practical year or just one or two tertials at Wolfsburg Hospital. The elective course in public health is offered by the city's health department (Gesundheitsamt). A two-week rotation from the elective subject General Medicine to Public Health is possible. There are also interesting practices in Wolfsburg for the PJ. We will be happy to help you find the perfect place for you!"

  • Contact

    Clinical traineeships

    Contact at Wolfsburg Hospital Maximilian Müller Phone: 05361 80-1994 E-mail: maximilian.mueller@klinikum.wolfsburg.de Contact person Health Department Dr. Michael Brabant Phone: 05361 28-2032 E-mail: michael.brabant@stadt.wolfsburg.de Dr. Volker Heimeshoff Phone: 05361 28-2020 E-mail: gesundheitsamt@stadt.wolfsburg.de

    Practical year

    Contact at Wolfsburg Hospital PJ representative Prof. Dr. med. Tomislav Stojanovic Phone 05361 80-1588 E-mail: gch@klinikum.wolfsburg.de Contact Health Department Dr. Michael Brabant Phone: 05361 28-2032 E-mail: michael.brabant@stadt.wolfsburg.de Dr. Volker Heimeshoff Phone: 05361 28-2020 E-mail: gesundheitsamt@stadt.wolfsburg.de

  • Famulature
  • Practical year at Wolfsburg Hospital
  • Practical year at the Wolfsburg Health Department
• Doctors

  Are you looking for a job as a doctor and would like to work at Wolfsburg Hospital? If so, please contact Maximilian Müller, Human Resources and Social Services, or find out about vacancies at Wolfsburg Hospital here.

  You can also find more interesting information about the clinic in the Wolfsburg Clinic section.

  Wolfsburg Hospital
  Maximilian Müller
  Sauerbruchstraße 7
  38440 Wolfsburg
  Phone: 05361 80-1994
  E-mail: maximilian.mueller@klinikum.wolfsburg.de

  Become part of the clinic and get to know Wolfsburg!

  During your time at the clinic, Bernd-Michael Hilbig from the city administration will also be available to answer any questions you may have about your professional future in Wolfsburg

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

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

• Establishment and promotion

  We promote and support you on your way to settlement!

  Whether you have a private practice, a group practice or are employed as a doctor, you will find a wide variety of practice types in Wolfsburg. Perhaps modern alternatives such as the Wolfsburg "flexidoc" model are just right for you.

  We can advise you on all questions relating to setting up a practice or employment. We want you to know that you are in good hands, establish important contacts and pave the way for a branch office.
  
  We also offer an attractive support program. We provide a grant of up to 50,000 euros for medical specialties that are at risk of being undersupplied. This funding for doctors paves the way for a new career start in Wolfsburg.

  We will also help you find a suitable practice location, place to live, daycare and school places and much more. You are very welcome in Wolfsburg. Mr. Hilbig is available to answer your questions.

  The staff at the Braunschweig district office of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of Lower Saxony (KVN) will also be happy to tell you about the specific options available to you in Wolfsburg. The colleagues there will be happy to discuss the topics of licensing, employment, practice design, etc. with you and work with you to find the best solution for you.

  If you are interested in the flexidoc project, you will also find the right contact person there: the project manager.

  KVN

  Sonja Bäckert
  Phone: 0531 2414-218
  E-mail: sonja.baeckert@kvn.de

• Life and work in Wolfsburg

  Let yourself be carried away by the dynamics and diversity of Wolfsburg!

  Wolfsburg is

  • an impressive business location
  • Most dynamic city in Germany (IW Cologne, 2016)
  • Most family-friendly city in Lower Saxony (2009)
  • Child-friendly municipality (2014)
  • Cosmopolitan with more than 145 nationalities represented

  Wolfsburg has

  • idyllic and green oases (Wolfsburg is one of the greenest cities in Germany)
  • top-class sports (women's and men's soccer, ice hockey)
  • an educational landscape and is a university location
  • a comprehensive all-day offer at schools

  Wolfsburg offers

  • leisure and adventure for the whole family
  • culture and architecture
  • Green living
  • Innovation and technology
  • Mobility (excellent transport links)

  Wolfsburg - impressively young!

  • Wolfsburg brochure
  • Wolfsburg Family Guide
  • Your Wolfsburg" citizen magazine
  • Wolfsburg Economy and Marketing GmbH
• Wolfsburg Clinic
  

  The Klinikum Wolfsburg is a hospital providing specialist care and, with the MedizinCampus Wolfsburg (MCW), a clinical training site of the University Medical Center Göttingen. We have 547 beds in 20 clinics and institutes as well as our own nursing school for the training of nursing specialists and health and pediatric nurses and serve the city of Wolfsburg with about 125,000 inhabitants as well as numerous patients from the region.

  • Wolfsburg Clinic

• Czech student completes clinical traineeship at Wolfsburg Hospital

  Time passed faster than expected. Mr. Hudec's three-week clinical traineeship in obstetrics and gynaecology at Wolfsburg Hospital ended at the beginning of June. Time for the
  project manager Bernd-Michael Hilbig to draw a conclusion with the Czech student on the last day. There were some interesting statements that
  that may also be helpful for future students.

  How was your time at Wolfsburg Hospital? It was my third internship at a German hospital!

  As with the last internships in German clinics, it was very demanding in terms of language. You have to be very attentive. It makes you a bit tired, but it's always exciting. It's exciting to get to know a foreign city and a foreign structure and to always adapt to new people. In my experience, the doctors here take a lot of time to explain things and are very nice.

  What have you seen of the city of Wolfsburg?

  I went to the wine festival ("I only looked from the outside, it was very crowded") and the Campus Open Air. I also went to Wolfsburg Castle and saw the art exhibitions there.
  art exhibitions there. I also found the exhibitions in the art museum interesting, especially "Weightless". I didn't go jogging that often, as I still had to
  I still had to learn.

  What's next for you?

  I have my exam in gynecology and obstetrics on June 11, 2025. If I pass, then I'll be a doctor.

  And then you'll come to Wolfsburg for further training?

  I still have to think about that and discuss it with my girlfriend (laughs). But I'm keeping my eye on Wolfsburg Hospital.

  And finally, what would you like to say?

  I would like to say thank you for the support and care I have received here in Wolfsburg. Czech or Slovakian students are welcome to get in touch with me. I am happy to answer any questions about an internship or clinical traineeship in Germany. Please send your inquiries to vit.hudecak@gmail.com.

  We wish Mr. Hudec a safe journey home and all the best for his exams. Perhaps we will see you again soon. The next Czech and Slovakian students
  The next Czech and Slovakian students, whose interest in a clinical traineeship in Wolfsburg was aroused at the job fair in Prague, are expected in July 2025.

  

  Vit Hudec and Bernd-Michael Hilbig

• After job fair in Prague 2024 - First student starts clinical traineeship at the hospital

  After job fair in Prague 2024 - first student starts clinical traineeship at the hospital
  In October 2024, the large job fair for medicine and nursing took place in Prague, at which the city of Wolfsburg was represented. After numerous discussions and contacts, the first student met there began his mandatory internship at Wolfsburg Hospital in mid-May 2025. The 25-year-old Vit Hudec is completing the three weeks in the gynecology/obstetrics department. Reason enough for doctors Zuzana Kratochvilova and Bernd-Michael Hilbig, who were both also at the job fair in Prague, to welcome him. Of course, there was also time for a short interview.

  How was the journey? Did everything go well?
  I took the Flix bus to Berlin and then the ICE train to Wolfsburg. On the subsequent walk to the clinic, I got to know the city center and the climb through the forest (laughs). Everything worked out quite well.

  What is your first impression of Wolfsburg?
  Above all, I was surprised by all the greenery. I've already been jogging extensively in the woods. I will certainly have a look at one or two more places.

  And the Wolfsburg Clinic?
  It's a larger hospital. I'm getting on well here. There's a lot of theory involved in the internship at the moment.

  What ultimately tipped the scales in favor of an internship in Wolfsburg? You've already done internships in Berlin and Kreischa (near Dresden).
  First of all, it has to be said that Wolfsburg was the largest city represented at the job fair. I also like to try out new things.
  A larger maternity ward was also important for my decision-making process. For my studies, 300 births a year don't help me. So it had to be a larger clinic. I want to see a lot of what happens before, during and after the birth.
  I also want to improve my German. And people speak the best High German in northern Germany (laughs).

  What do you think about the subsidy for the compulsory internship from the city of Wolfsburg?
  It's nice to receive additional financial support.

  Then we wish Mr. Hudec all the best for the rest of his days at Wolfsburg Hospital. We will meet up with him again at the end and draw a few conclusions.

  

  On the photo from left Zuzana Kratochvilova, Vit Hudec, Bernd-Michael Hilbig

  
  

• Wolfsburg Hospital receives gold award for outstanding hand hygiene

  Hospital hygienist Dr. Birgit Feier: "Recognition is an incentive for us to maintain our high standards in the future."

  The "Clean Hands Campaign" has awarded Wolfsburg Hospital the gold award for its exemplary commitment to hand hygiene. This prestigious recognition underlines the hospital's constant efforts to ensure the highest standards of hygiene and maximize patient safety.

  Priv.-Doz. Dr. Alina Dahmen, Medical Director of Wolfsburg Hospital, emphasizes: "This award is proof of our constant commitment and the work of our entire team. Hand hygiene is one of the most effective measures to prevent the transmission of infections in a hospital. We are very proud that our efforts in this area have been recognized and that we can now celebrate another "Gold"." The hospital has already been awarded the silver certificate in the past two years.

  Dr. Birgit Feier, hospital hygienist at Klinikum Wolfsburg, adds: "This award shows that we fully comply with national standards and in some cases even exceed them. We want to continue to create a safe environment for our patients and employees and see this recognition as an incentive to maintain our high standards of hygiene."

  The gold award recognizes the comprehensive measures taken by the hospital with regard to hand hygiene. These include regular staff training and the continuous monitoring and improvement of hygiene measures, such as monitoring the use of hand disinfectant. These initiatives make a significant contribution to reducing infection rates at the hospital and increasing patient safety.

  The "Clean Hands Campaign" is a national campaign to improve hand disinfection compliance in German healthcare facilities. It was launched on January 1, 2008 with the support of the Federal Ministry of Health by the National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (NRZ), Aktionsbündnis Patientensicherheit e.V. (APS) and the Gesellschaft für Qualitätsmanagement in der Gesundheitsversorgung e.V. (Society for Quality Management in Healthcare).

  

  Gold award for hand disinfection activities (from left to right): The hygiene team at Wolfsburg Hospital led by hospital hygienist Dr. Birgit Feier (left) and Medical Director Priv.-Doz. Dr. Alina Dahmen (right) present the certificate

  Photo: Julia Klemp
• Summary of the Prague job fair: Many discussions, numerous contacts, satisfied organizers and exhibitors

  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
• Planning for extension to hospital can begin

  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.

• More than 250 visitors at Berlin job fair "Operation Career

  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.
  

  
• Announcement dated May 17, 2022: Hospitals in Wolfenbüttel, Wolfsburg and Braunschweig to expand cooperation

  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."

• Contact

  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