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Editorial

Editorial

For the IML, as probably for the colleagues at the university in general, 2021 was a year consolidating into the new normal.

Main Highlights

Main Highlights

The most important highlights that occupied us in 2021.

Usability and User Experience

Usability and User Experience

Two Challenging Disciplines as Drivers of Software Development

Examic Valuatic

Examic Valuatic

A new system for oral and clinical examinations

E-Learning-Modul in «Scientific Literature Searching»

E-Learning-Modul in «Scientific Literature Searching»

Entwicklung eines E-Learning-Moduls in «Scientific Literature Searching»

E-Learning für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen

E-Learning für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen

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

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: Peer teaching ultrasound

PhD project: Peer teaching ultrasound

PhD-title: «Understanding and Facilitating Near-Peer-Teaching in Ultrasound Education»

PhD project: Entrustable Professional Activities in Old Age Psychiatry

PhD project: Entrustable Professional Activities in Old Age Psychiatry

PhD regarding improving residency training with Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA’s) in Old Age Psychiatry.

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: Continuing Professional Development conferences

PhD project: Continuing Professional Development conferences

PhD thesis: ”Improving the outcome of conferences on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for healthcare professionals”

PhD project: multisource feedback in postgraduate medical education

PhD project: multisource feedback in postgraduate medical education

Which factors influence multisource feedback in postgraduate medical education?

Digital Learning and Teaching (DLT)

Digital Learning and Teaching (DLT)

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.

From threat to challenge

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

Medical Education and Corona

Medical Education and Corona

This project aims at identifying and describing the experiences made at the Swiss medical schools after having to suddenly switch from on-site to online teaching; in particular, the experienced issues, needs, and solution approaches shall be investigated.

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.

Gender gap phenomenon

Gender gap phenomenon

Gender differences in the career motivations of health 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

Spiritual Care in Chronic Pain

Spiritual Care in Chronic Pain

Interdisciplinary Research for Interprofessional Practice in Medicine and Nursing.

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?

Develop the Examic Assessment Suite

Develop the Examic Assessment Suite

Applications to support exam services in the written and practical domains.

DocCom.Deutsch: Web-based learning modules

DocCom.Deutsch: Web-based learning modules

DocCom.Deutsch is a series of media-supported online modules for basic, intermediate and advanced training in communication in the healthcare sector. Doctors and specialists from Switzerland, Germany and Austria are involved.

EU project „did-act“  on clinical decision-making

EU project „did-act“ on clinical decision-making

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.

HemoSurf development

HemoSurf development

HemoSurf is educational software teaching morphological haematology that is known and used worldwide.

SOREL – maintain and redesign

SOREL – maintain and redesign

SOREL is an online learning program funded by all five medical faculties in Switzerland and the Swiss Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.

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.

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.

«BeFit» Project

«BeFit» Project

Evaluation of the «BeFit» Project.

Literature search and academic writing

Literature search and academic writing

Evaluation of workshops and lectures in literature search and academic writing.

DocCom.Deutsch

DocCom.Deutsch

Good communication between all stakeholders in the healthcare system can be learned.

 Good teaching and research go hand in hand

Good teaching and research go hand in hand

Educational research provides important building blocks to promote excellence in education. With two new 4 year SNSF projects, we are able to incorporate current themes in teaching and approach them with the necessary care and resources.

Online platform for communication training

Online platform for communication training

Communication is a key skill in healthcare and central to build a good relationship between healthcare professionals and patients.

10 years of clinical skills exams with Examic EOSCE

10 years of clinical skills exams with Examic EOSCE

As a pioneer in the field of electronic OSCE assessments on tablet computers, the Institute for Medical Education (IML) started supporting clinical examinations with its own software Examic EOSCE 10 years ago.

Children as simulated patients in practical exams

Children as simulated patients in practical exams

Use of primary school children as simulated patients as part of a practical exam (OSCE) meets international criteria for good examinations.

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