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PhD project (SNF): Digital Learning and Teaching

PhD project (SNF): Digital Learning and Teaching

Implementing effective digital learning and teaching in higher education beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. Aligning key players’ needs, bringing distant communication close and supporting students’ individual learning.

PhD project (SNF): From threat to challenge

PhD project (SNF): From threat to challenge

Improving medical students’ stress response and communication skills performance through stress arousal reappraisal and preparatory worked example-based learning when breaking bad news to simulated patients

PhD project: Post-graduate medical education programs

PhD project: Post-graduate medical education programs

What makes post-graduate medical education programs (CME) at the University-level attractive?

PhD project: Peer teaching ultrasound

PhD project: Peer teaching ultrasound

«Understanding and Facilitating Near-Peer-Teaching in Ultrasound Education.»

PhD project: Online and blended learning in Precision Medicine

PhD project: Online and blended learning in Precision Medicine

Improving our understanding of teaching and learning methods acceptable and applicable for frontline healthcare professionals.

PhD project: Continuing Professional Development conferences

PhD project: Continuing Professional Development conferences

"Improving the outcome of conferences on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for healthcare professionals."

Examic Valuatic

Examic Valuatic

Valuatic is an easy-to-use and efficient system for conducting oral and clinical assessments (especially OSCEs) without the use of paper forms.

Examic EOSCE

Examic EOSCE

EOSCE is an easy-to-use and efficient system for conducting practical medical examinations (especially OSCEs) without the use of paper forms.

Examic Measured

Examic Measured

Examic Measured is an innovative online platform designed to help educational institutions and organisations easily create and administer exams and assessments.

Establishing Trust: Herangehensweise an das ängstliche Kind durch blended learning.

Establishing Trust: Herangehensweise an das ängstliche Kind durch blended learning.

Herangehensweise an das ängstliche Kind durch blended learning.

Viva VOsCE - Virtual Objective structered Clinical Examinations

Viva VOsCE - Virtual Objective structered Clinical Examinations

With Viva VOsCE, we aim to create a Virtual Reality (VR) based OSCE platform.

DocCom.Deutsch:  Webbasierte Module zur patientenzentrierten Kommunikation

DocCom.Deutsch: Webbasierte Module zur patientenzentrierten Kommunikation

DocCom.Deutsch ist eine Serie medienunterstützter Online Module für die Aus-, Weiter- und Fortbildung in der Kommunikation im Gesundheitswesen. Daran beteiligt sind Ärztinnen und Ärzte sowie Fachpersonen aus der Schweiz, Deutschland und Österreich.

Gender gap phenomenon

Gender gap phenomenon

Gender differences in the career motivations of health professionals.

Precision Medicine for FRONTLINERS

Precision Medicine for FRONTLINERS

Is a multi-support learning platform on Precision Medicine for the daily practice of frontline care professionals.

Communication is a key competence

Communication is a key competence

Communication with cancer patients and their families about approaching death: schaffolding conceptual and practical learning for health professionals

eLearning für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen

eLearning für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen

Beratung, Evaluation und Einbindung von eLearning für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen (D).

E-Learning-Modul in «Scientific Literature Searching»

E-Learning-Modul in «Scientific Literature Searching»

Beratung zur Entwicklung eines E-Learning-Moduls in «Scientific Literature Searching» (Bibliothek Medizin Bern).

Self-Directed Learning (SDL) in Clinical Work-Life

Self-Directed Learning (SDL) in Clinical Work-Life

How can specialists be supported in highly individualized learning processes with the help of modern tools?

eLearning for the Swiss National Foundation

eLearning for the Swiss National Foundation

eLearning is an efficient way of reaching out to experts and supporting them in their evaluation tasks.

Berner longitudinales Curriculum Virtuelle Patient:innen Notfallmedizin (BelViP)

Berner longitudinales Curriculum Virtuelle Patient:innen Notfallmedizin (BelViP)

Unterstützung der Studierenden zum Erlernen der selbständigen Behandlung von pädiatrischen und erwachsenen Notfallpatienten durch Einsatz von Virtuellen Patient:innen.

Wissensaneignung von Hausärzt:innen in der COVID-19 Pandemie

Wissensaneignung von Hausärzt:innen in der COVID-19 Pandemie

Die COVID-19 Pandemie hat viele Berufsgruppen vor Herausforderungen gestellt.

Algorithmus «Assess-med-BERT»

Algorithmus «Assess-med-BERT»

«Assess-med-BERT» ist ein Algorithmus zur automatisierten Erstellung von Distraktoren in deutschsprachigen Multiple Choice-Fragen für Online Self-Assessments, um das Lernen effizient zu unterstützen.

Systematic approach to reviews, with a particular focus on Scoping Reviews

Systematic approach to reviews, with a particular focus on Scoping Reviews

By the example of implementing a systematic scoping review to develop a taxonomy of teaching methods, on 10th November 2022, with a small team of international experts, we delivered an interactive workshop on Secondary Research.

«did-act» on clinical decision-making, EU project

«did-act» on clinical decision-making, EU project

An adaptive curriculum for clinical reasoning for students and instructors is to be developed, implemented and disseminated in order to better prepare future doctors and to avoid mistakes.

MSFtoGo - das intelligente Mulisource Feedback Tool

MSFtoGo - das intelligente Mulisource Feedback Tool

Es soll eine App entwickelt werden, um die Durchführung von Multisource-Feedback zu vereinfachen.

CRASHPAED- Praxisnahes Lernen an interaktiven Fällen (Webapp)

CRASHPAED- Praxisnahes Lernen an interaktiven Fällen (Webapp)

CrashPaed ist eine Webapp, in welcher Fälle aus der Kinder- und Jugendmedizin schrittweise vom Symptom über die Diagnostik bis hin zur Therapie interaktiv aufgearbeitet werden.

MedSurf

MedSurf

Numerous online learning programs like MorphoMed, RadioSurf or CliniSurf, which were developed at the Department for Education and Media AUM at the IML in conjunction with specialist representatives from the Faculty of Medicine, need to be updated.

Communication courses for Sanacare group practices

Communication courses for Sanacare group practices

Communication courses for the medical staff of the 13 Sanacare group practices. Including role play among themselves and with simulated staff.

Increasing communication skills with the help of sample videos

Increasing communication skills with the help of sample videos

For medical students, it can be very challenging to communicate with patients in a goal-oriented and efficient way on the one hand and to convey empathy and appreciation on the other hand (at the same time).

Rassismus in der Medizin: Perspektiven für die medizinische Ausbildung

Rassismus in der Medizin: Perspektiven für die medizinische Ausbildung

Beitrag der GMA zur Sensibilisierung von Studierenden, Lehrenden und weiteren in der medizinischen Lehre tätigen Personen zum Thema rassistische Diskriminierung im Gesundheitswesen.

«BeFit» Project

«BeFit» Project

Evaluation of the «BeFit» Project.

Evaluation von Praxisassistenzen

Evaluation von Praxisassistenzen

Überarbeitung der Erhebungsinstrumente für die Evaluation von Praxisassistenzen.

Editorial

Editorial

In the past year, topics such as new residents’ job satisfaction, continued strain on time for clinical teachers, student motivation and professional developments have surfaced as fields needing urgent attention. By growing need for a resilient, motivated, and professional healthcare workforce, the attractiveness of healthcare professions is at stake.

Highlights Events

Highlights Events

Find out more about the activities, topics and special occasions that kept us busy last year.

 Symposium 50 years of the Institute for Medical Education

Symposium 50 years of the Institute for Medical Education

Half a century of the Institute for Medical Education (IML): We have recently analysed how it was founded, what the most important events and who the key figures were. A symposium with around 120 invited guests on 7 July 2023 marked the conclusion of the project.

IML has joined the IMEX Program

IML has joined the IMEX Program

IMEX, as the name suggests, aims to facilitate international exchanges and collaborations among medical educators.

FRONTLINERS: Evidence based blended learning for Precision Medicine

FRONTLINERS: Evidence based blended learning for Precision Medicine

Teaching precision medicine to primary care professionals: General Practitioners, Pharmacists, Advance practice nurses

Digital practical exams and evaluations with Examic Valuatic

Digital practical exams and evaluations with Examic Valuatic

About 12 years after the first digitally supported OSCE exam with the Examic EOSCE software, the successor software is now available: Examic Valuatic. Why a new development was necessary, what advantages Valuatic offers and what the future of the Valuatic system looks like is described in the following article.

My start at the IML

My start at the IML

Although studying medicine brings with it a wide range of career opportunities, including non-clinical ones, the decision to leave clinical work presented me with a major challenge.

«Sport over lunch» - firmly established at the IML since 2022

«Sport over lunch» - firmly established at the IML since 2022

Last but not least, corona has made it clear to all of us how important health is and how physical activity has a positive influence on it.

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