A consensus statement on practical skills in medical school - a position paper by the GMA Committee on Practical Skills.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Encouraged by the change in licensing regulations the practical professional skills in Germany received a higher priority and are taught in medical schools therefore increasingly. This created the need to standardize the process more and more. On the initiative of the German skills labs the German Medical Association Committee for practical skills was established and developed a competency-based catalogue of learning objectives, whose origin and structure is described here. Goal of the catalogue is to define the practical skills in undergraduate medical education and to give the medical schools a rational planning basis for the necessary resources to teach them.

Methods

Building on already existing German catalogues of learning objectives a multi-iterative proce

SUBMITTER: Schnabel KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3244733 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature