Desire and reality--teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe--a survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Increasingly, communicative competencies are becoming a permanent feature of training and assessment in German-speaking medical schools (n=43; Germany, Austria, Switzerland - "D-A-CH"). In support of further curricular development of communicative competencies, the survey by the "Communicative and Social Competencies" (KusK) committee of the German Society for Medical Education (GMA) systematically appraises the scope of and form in which teaching and assessment take place.

Methods

The iterative online questionnaire, developed in cooperation with KusK, comprises 70 questions regarding instruction (n=14), assessment (n=48), local conditions (n=5), with three fields for further remarks. Per location, two to three individuals who were familiar with the respective ins

SUBMITTER: Hartl A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4647163 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature