Teaching alcohol and smoking counselling in times of COVID-19 to 6^th-semester medical students: experiences with a digital-only and a blended learning teaching approach using role-play and feedback.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: Digital teaching formats have seen increased use, and not just since the beginning of the pandemic. They can also be used to teach cognitive, practical and communicative learning objectives effectively. We describe the implementation of an online-only course on alcohol/smoking counselling in the COVID-19 summer semester (SS) 2020 and an inverted classroom (IC) concept in the winter semester (WS) 2020/21 at the University Hospital of Würzburg. Methodology: The interdisciplinary subject of "prevention" teaches students about high-risk alcohol consumption/smoking and how to conduct a brief verbal intervention. All 143 (SS) and 131 (WS) 6^th-semester medical students completed a 90-minute course: module 1 included a Prezi^® presentation on alcohol/

SUBMITTER: Tiedemann E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8675379 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature