Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2025)
Background: Interprofessional healthcare requires interprofessional learning (IPL) starting during academic education. The aim of this study is to examine the implementation of IPL in the modules "Topical Workshop (TW) for Orthopaedic Rehabilitation" and "TW for Paediatrics and Child and Adolescent …
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2024)
Background: A competency-based education approach calls for frequent workplace-based assessments (WBA) of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs). While mobile applications increase the efficiency, it is not known how many assessments are required for reliable ratings and whether the concept can …
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2022)
Introduction: Starting in 2013, a five-year, competence-based postgraduate programme, the “Seminartage Weiterbildung Allgemeinmedizin” (SemiWAM®) for continuing education in general practice, was developed and offered in Bavaria. This evaluation reports on the experiences of SemiWAM® after a first c…
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2022)
The structure and content of the training phase following completion of medical school, referred to in most countries as postgraduate medical training, varies between countries. The purpose of this article is to give national and international readers an overview of the organisation and structure of…
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2021)
Aim: The seminar program of the KWBW Verbundweiterbildungplus® is offered by the Competence Center for Postgraduate Medical Education in Baden-Württemberg (KWBW) for physicians specializing in general practice (GP trainees). Attendance is a voluntary one comprised of 48 curricular units of 45 minute…
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2021)
Background: One of the aims of the German student selection network (Studierendenauswahl-Verbund, stav) is to review existing procedures for selecting medical students and to relate their effectiveness to students’ career aspirations as well as to their further careers. Against the background of cha…
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2020)
The “practice track” (PAT) at Goethe University Frankfurt provides students with the opportunity to focus on outpatient care during their medical studies. The aim of this article is to describe the objectives, conception and implementation of the program. At the Institute of General Practice, a new …
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2019)
Aim: Against the background of an impending shortage of family practitioners, it is important to investigate the factors influencing the choice to become one. The aim of this study was to identify factors that encourage medical students to choose to practice family medicine. Method: Using a question…
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2017)
Introduction: In different German regions, seminar programs have been conducted for General practice residents. In each region, selection and teaching of learning content is conducted in a different manner. So far, no structured, standardized curriculum has been implemented nationwide. We have inves…
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2017)
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, competency-based medical education (CBME) has become a dominant approach to postgraduate medical education in many countries. CBME has a history dating back half a century and is rooted in general educational approaches such as outcome-based education and …
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2017)
Competency-based education has become central to the training and assessment of post-graduate medical trainees or residents [1]. In competency-based education, there is a strong focus on outcomes and professional performance. Typically, holistic tasks are used to train, practice and assess the defin…
Published:GMS journal for medical education
(2017)
Background: In face of the looming shortage of general practitioners, primary healthcare providers and post-graduate training in general practice are increasingly becoming part of the political agenda in Germany. In 2009 the program “Verbundweiterbildungplus Baden-Wurttem-berg” (VWBplus BW) was deve…
