[New approaches to lecture medicine--or: what can we learn from television?].

The development of new media and high-performance Internet connections do not stop in front of the auditorium. The classic teaching course is in direct competition with the new media that provide some excellent illustrated and animated educational videos and clips. In order to bring students back into the classroom, it is mandatory to make teaching more attractive. One can, as we shall show in the following contribution, use popular television series for successful teaching. This approach is accepted by the students with great interest and allows us to teach our students also in the field of rare diseases. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.