Professional development of medical students - piloting a longitudinal curriculum at Jena University Hospital (LongProf).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Professionalism is an important prerequisite for the quality of medical care with specific competencies anchored in the National Competence-Based Learning Objectives Catalogue Medicine 2.0. To date, there are hardly any explicit teaching formats at German universities to achieve these. A longitudinal curriculum for the development of medical professionalism (LongProf) has now been developed, implemented and evaluated at Jena University Hospital.

Methods

The target group of the four-semester-curriculum were medical students from the fifth semester onwards. After a nine-month conception phase, a total of nine courses (6 teaching units each) took place from the winter semester 2021/22. Students also had the opportunity to interact with experienced doctors in mentorin

SUBMITTER: Schmidt K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11474655 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature