Rate My Professor Hauke Mommsen

Prof. Dr. Hauke Mommsen serves as Professor of Physiotherapy in the Faculty of Health at HAW Kiel, formerly Fachhochschule Kiel. A medical doctor who studied at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, he is a board-certified specialist in orthopedics and trauma surgery. His career commenced after Abitur with 20 months of civil service, including roles in nursing and trauma surgery at Krankenhaus Flensburg, as a nursing assistant following a four-week training, and six months as an operating room nurse. He then completed training as a physiotherapist, during which he passed the medical entrance exam and obtained a study place in medicine. Mommsen fulfilled his physiotherapy recognition year during semester breaks and worked part-time as a physiotherapist in a rehabilitation clinic in Kiel's Wellingdorf district. He undertook internships in trauma surgery in Vienna and Zurich, and in surgery in Key West, Florida. Post-graduation, he completed six years of residency training in the operative field of orthopedics and trauma surgery.