Impressive and unshakable

No matter where Maurice Dellin is found – in the student body headquarters, in the lecture hall, in the University Hospital or on the Medical Campus – his broad, friendly smile can be seen from afar. Congenial and open is a good way of describing the brand-new medical graduate when you first meet him. And when you get to know him better, he reveals much more: he is engaged, motivated, interested and versatile – both a doer and a team player. From the first day of his studies, which he began in October 2017, Dellin was involved in all sorts of activities. “While I was still at school I got involved in many fields – for example, I was on the organising committee for our school prom. So, for me it made sense to look in on the Faculty of Medicine`s student body and ask whether they could do with some help,” Dellin (24) recalls. And then the list of the voluntary work he did just grew: member of the student body representatives, advisor for IT and digitalisation, member of the faculty board, team leader for Münster eLearning docs – to name just a few.

Among all his activities, his first love was for developing technical innovations. Just how well he knows his way around this field became clear when the Covid 19 pandemic paralysed the University’s operations. “There was a lack of people who already had experience of digital teaching formats,” Dellin recounts. “I took a look at the problem and, together with other students, developed a concept and the technical infrastructure for digital teaching in medicine.” It was for this development that he and his team received the Special Teaching Prize from the Faculty of Medicine, as well as the University of Münster Students Prize. The award of the University Medal in November, was in recognition not only of Dellin’s developing innovative formats in hybrid university teaching, but also of his “outstanding project management, impressive innovative abilities and unshakeable sense of responsibility,” as Prof. Bernhard Marschall, Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Medicine, wrote in nominating Dellin for the award.

Anyone thinking that all this must go to a young person’s head would be wrong in the case of Maurice Dellin. He has both feet firmly on the ground and is always unruffled – which is almost unbelievable, given that medicine is one of the most demanding subjects that can be studied at university. Besides having to learn a lot of theory, there are time-intensive pre-clinical phases, the first and second state examinations and a year of practical training all waiting. Dellin also wrote his doctorate during this time, completing it this year with the grade “summa cum laude”.

All this shows that Maurice Dellin is not only one of those people who like to become involved in things during their free time, but that he does so heart and soul. “I’ve never felt that the extra work was stressful,” he says. “Quite the opposite: it’s my passion and my hobby at the same time. I’m grateful that I had the time to help get things done, suggesting topics and implementing them with a lot of great people.”

That all the effort has paid off is shown by how the new concepts have been integrated. Since autumn 2022, all the medical lecture halls have been equipped with hybrid technology, making it possible for every lecture to be transmitted live. “Münster is a pioneer in this field,” he says. “We’ve already had enquiries from the Universities of Aachen, Marburg and Munich about implementing digital university teaching.”

In November, Dellin successfully completed his medical studies. The offer of a job may be taking him to Davos, in Switzerland, where he could start as a research associate at the AO Research Institute in April next year. Or he might succeed in finding a job in trauma surgery at Münster University Hospital. At any rate, he sees his future not only in patient care, but would like to combine hospital work, research and teaching. The possibility, otherwise, is that he might start to get bored.

Dr. Kathrin Kottke

This article is from the brochure "Twelve months, twelve people", published in February 2025.

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