Richard März
Biography
Professor, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Richard Marz received his primary and secondary education in Vienna, Austria. For his university training he moved to the USA, obtaining a B.A. in Chemistry from Grinnell College (Iowa) and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from St. Louis University (MO). After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota (MN) he moved back to Austria. In 1982 he received a faculty appointment at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna (since 2004 the Medical University of Vienna).
Though Richard carried a full-time teaching load in Medical Biochemistry until his retirement in 2012, about 20 years ago his academic interests gradually shifted to Medical Education. He belonged to a small working-group responsible for designing and implementing a new medical curriculum, which went into effect starting 2001.
From 2000 – 2011 he served as coordinator of the first year of studies; from 2005 until 2012 he was the ECTS departmental coordinator for undergraduate medical education and thus responsible for international student and staff mobility. 2004 – 2012 he headed the Section of Science and International Relations, which is part of the Department of Medical Education.
He served in the consortium of several TEMPUS projects and was a member of the executive board of the MEDINE 2 thematic network. 2011 – 2013 he was the Project Manager (local implementation officer at the Medical University of Vienna) and University Management Expert for: European Quality and Professional Competence in Medical University Education and Management (POSDRU 63815/2009, E-mediqual). This was an EU-funded curriculum development and change management project of 5 Romanian Medical Faculties.
From 1995 – 2009 he was the President of the Austrian Society for Didactics in Higher Education. He was a member of the editorial board of the "Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (ZFHE)" and "Medical Education" and still is Associate Editor of "Advances in Health Sciences Education (AHSE)". 1995 – 2012 he co-organized and chaired the yearly "Graz Conference on Medical Education". Richard is the recipient of two honorary doctorates from the universities of Timisoara and Tirgu Mures (Romania).
Lecture
20 Years Graz Conference on Medical Education: Why was it held the first time in 1995 and why did it continue?
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