Desire and reality – teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe – a survey
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 “Communi...
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| author | Anja Härtl Cadja Bachmann Katharina Blum Stefan Höfer Tim Peters Ingrid Preusche Bianca Raski Stefan Rüttermann Michaela Wagner-Menghin Alexander Wünsch Claudia Kiessling GMA-Ausschuss Kommunikative und Soziale Kompetenzen |
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| description | 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 institute’s curriculum were invited to take part in the survey.
Results: Thirty-nine medical schools (40 degree programmes) took part in the survey. Communicative competencies are taught in all of the programmes. Ten degree programmes have a longitudinal curriculum for communicative competencies; 25 programmes offer this in part. Sixteen of the 40 programmes use the Basler Consensus Statement for orientation. In over 80% of the degree programmes, communicative competencies are taught in the second and third year of studies. Almost all of the programmes work with simulated patients (n=38) and feedback (n=37). Exams are exclusively summative (n=11), exclusively formative (n=3), or both summative and formative (n=16) and usually take place in the fifth or sixth year of studies (n=22 and n=20). Apart from written examinations (n=15) and presentations (n=9), practical examinations are primarily administered (OSCE, n=31); WPA (n=8), usually with self-developed scales (OSCE, n=19). With regards to the examiners’ training and the manner of results-reporting to the students, there is a high variance.
Conclusions: Instruction in communicative competencies has been implemented at all 39 of the participating medical schools. For the most part, communicative competencies instruction in the D-A-C-H region takes place in small groups and is tested using the OSCE. The challenges for further curricular development lie in the expansion of feedback, the critical evaluation of appropriate assessment strategies, and in the quality assurance of exams. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0f8e55092b5246fa961df5def5808c702022-12-22T02:44:56ZdeuGerman Medical Science GMS Publishing HouseGMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung1860-35722015-11-01325Doc5610.3205/zma000998Desire and reality – teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe – a surveyAnja Härtl 0Cadja Bachmann1Katharina Blum2Stefan Höfer3Tim Peters 4Ingrid Preusche5Bianca Raski6Stefan Rüttermann7Michaela Wagner-Menghin8Alexander Wünsch9Claudia Kiessling10GMA-Ausschuss Kommunikative und Soziale KompetenzenKlinikum der Universität München, Institut für Didaktik und Ausbildungsforschung in der Medizin, München, Deutschland Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, Hamburg, Deutschland Klinikum der Universität München, Institut für Didaktik und Ausbildungsforschung in der Medizin, München, Deutschland Medizin Universität Innsbruck, Universitätsklinik für Medizinische Psychologie, Innsbruck, Österreich Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Medizinische Fakultät, Zentrum für Medizinische Lehre, Bochum, Deutschland Medizinische Universität Wien, Department für Medizinische Aus- und Weiterbildung, Wien, ÖsterreichUniversitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Studiendekanat, Düsseldorf, Deutschland; Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Klinisches Institut für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Düsseldorf, Deutschland Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, ZZMK Carolinum, Poliklinik für Zahnerhaltung, Frankfurt, DeutschlandMedizinische Universität Wien, Department für Medizinische Aus- und Weiterbildung, Wien, Österreich Klinikum rechts der Isar, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, München, Deutschland; Technische Universität München, TUM MeDiCAL, München, Deutschland Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane, Bereich Assessment und Prüfungsorganisation, Neuruppin, Deutschland 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 institute’s curriculum were invited to take part in the survey. Results: Thirty-nine medical schools (40 degree programmes) took part in the survey. Communicative competencies are taught in all of the programmes. Ten degree programmes have a longitudinal curriculum for communicative competencies; 25 programmes offer this in part. Sixteen of the 40 programmes use the Basler Consensus Statement for orientation. In over 80% of the degree programmes, communicative competencies are taught in the second and third year of studies. Almost all of the programmes work with simulated patients (n=38) and feedback (n=37). Exams are exclusively summative (n=11), exclusively formative (n=3), or both summative and formative (n=16) and usually take place in the fifth or sixth year of studies (n=22 and n=20). Apart from written examinations (n=15) and presentations (n=9), practical examinations are primarily administered (OSCE, n=31); WPA (n=8), usually with self-developed scales (OSCE, n=19). With regards to the examiners’ training and the manner of results-reporting to the students, there is a high variance. Conclusions: Instruction in communicative competencies has been implemented at all 39 of the participating medical schools. For the most part, communicative competencies instruction in the D-A-C-H region takes place in small groups and is tested using the OSCE. The challenges for further curricular development lie in the expansion of feedback, the critical evaluation of appropriate assessment strategies, and in the quality assurance of exams.http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2015-32/zma000998.shtmlmedical studiescommunicative competenciesinstructionassessmentlongitudinal curriculum |
| spellingShingle | Anja Härtl Cadja Bachmann Katharina Blum Stefan Höfer Tim Peters Ingrid Preusche Bianca Raski Stefan Rüttermann Michaela Wagner-Menghin Alexander Wünsch Claudia Kiessling GMA-Ausschuss Kommunikative und Soziale Kompetenzen Desire and reality – teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe – a survey GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung medical studies communicative competencies instruction assessment longitudinal curriculum |
| title | Desire and reality – teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe – a survey |
| title_full | Desire and reality – teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe – a survey |
| title_fullStr | Desire and reality – teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe – a survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Desire and reality – teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe – a survey |
| title_short | Desire and reality – teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe – a survey |
| title_sort | desire and reality teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in german speaking europe a survey |
| topic | medical studies communicative competencies instruction assessment longitudinal curriculum |
| url | http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2015-32/zma000998.shtml |
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