Computer Vision News - March 2022

46 Women in Science excited about the teaching at university and I always thought that I have to do it better one day. That’s also why I entered academia and worked at a university hospital for my entire career so far… and at different hospitals as well. I then started to teach very early during my residency and overhauled the entire curriculum and introduced digital teaching formats. I was very lucky that I was able to do that, so that as a resident, I had the opportunity to really do what I wanted to do. Do you have any tips for teachers and professors?  What I learned was really to try many different things. Watch out for what is suited for you, because not every teacher is the same. Everyone has their own skill sets and attitudes toward how to teach people. They will be successful in many different ways. For me, it worked nicely to try out many different things. I had feedback from my students on what worked and what maybe didn't work sowell. I could condense out of all these many experiments what is the best way for me as a teacher to interact with my students. I’m very interactive. Not all people are like that! I am sure that you also learn from your students. Can you share one “a-ha!” moment when you learned from your students? I have to think about that! We have time. For sure, I have many of these moments. Usually, students ask so many questions. But some of them may have some fear and don’t want to interact: if you get them to the point where they ask questions and interact with you as a teacher, there person or a bad researcher. It’s because of many, many different potential aspects; political aspects, they didn’t like the topic, whatever. There are so many reasons. This is the most important point I learned: I don’t have to take it personally.  When did you realize you wanted to become an educator? Very early - I already started teaching when I was in school. I was teaching others who weren’t doing so well in special topics: music,German language, English language... I started doing this very early and during my medical education as well. I was not “I always try to solve clinically relevant problems and to translate my research into clinical practice.”