"Tradition is a never-ending creation," says Prof. Dr. Rainer Dietrich, former vice-chancellor and head of the Department of German Literature at Heidelberg University.
因此海大有四個不同的醫學院：自然科學醫學院、理論醫學院和二個臨床醫學院；附設的曼海姆醫院有四千多張病床，是德國最大的大學醫療中心。