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
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
What makes post-graduate medical education programs (CME) at the University-level attractive?
PhD project: Peer teaching ultrasound
«Understanding and Facilitating Near-Peer-Teaching in Ultrasound Education.»
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
"Improving the outcome of conferences on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for healthcare professionals."
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
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 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.
Herangehensweise an das ängstliche Kind durch blended learning.
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 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.
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 with cancer patients and their families about approaching death: schaffolding conceptual and practical learning for health professionals
Gender gap phenomenon
Gender differences in the career motivations of health professionals.
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 für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen
Beratung, Evaluation und Einbindung von eLearning für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen (D).
E-Learning-Modul in «Scientific Literature Searching»
Beratung zur Entwicklung eines E-Learning-Moduls in «Scientific Literature Searching» (Bibliothek Medizin Bern).
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)
Unterstützung der Studierenden zum Erlernen der selbständigen Behandlung von pädiatrischen und erwachsenen Notfallpatienten durch Einsatz von Virtuellen Patient:innen.
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.
Wissensaneignung von Hausärzt:innen in der COVID-19 Pandemie
Die COVID-19 Pandemie hat viele Berufsgruppen vor Herausforderungen gestellt.
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.
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.
MSFtoGo - das intelligente Mulisource Feedback Tool
Es soll eine App entwickelt werden, um die Durchführung von Multisource-Feedback zu vereinfachen.
«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.
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 the medical staff of the 13 Sanacare group practices. Including role play among themselves and with simulated staff.
«BeFit» Project
Evaluation of the «BeFit» Project.
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.
Evaluation von Praxisassistenzen
Überarbeitung der Erhebungsinstrumente für die Evaluation von Praxisassistenzen.
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).
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
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
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
IMEX, as the name suggests, aims to facilitate international exchanges and collaborations among medical educators.
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
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
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
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.