2025/05/30 by Stang, Andreas
#Biometrie #Epidemiologie #Geschichte #Institutsgründung #Medicine and health #Medizinische Informatik #biometry #epidemiology #foundation of the institute #history #medical informatics
paper · doi:10.3205/mibe000275
The present work attempts to outline the founding history of the Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (IMIBE) of the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen using all available archive documents of the Institute, the Dean’s Office and the University of Duisburg-Essen. The IMIBE was founded in 1974. Similar to the founding of the sister institutes in Kiel (1964) and Freiburg (1963), medical doctors from the medical faculties were the driving force behind the founding of the institutes. At the Essen Medical Faculty, these were Prof. Scherer and Doz. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jansen. As late as 1991, the Essen chair holder, Prof. Schmitt, declared that epidemiology was to be regarded as a “subset of biomathematics or biometrics” and was not mentioned as an independent subject either in the licensing regulations or in the further training regulations for medical doctors. It remains important for the subjects of medical informatics, biometry and epidemiology at the faculty of medicine that the medical profession recognizes that these disciplines provide a basis for scientific work in medicine.