“Fit for the finals” – project report on a telemedical training with simulated patients, peers, and assessors for the licensing exam

Background: Undergraduate medical students take the licensing exam (M3) as a two-day oral-practical examination. The main requirements are to demonstrate history taking skills and coherent case presentations. The aim of this project was to establish a training in which students can test their commun...

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Main Authors: Harendza, Sigrid, Bußenius, Lisa, Gärtner, Julia, Heuser, Miriam, Ahles, Jonathan, Prediger, Sarah
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Language:deu
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2023-04-01
Series:GMS Journal for Medical Education
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Online Access:http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2023-40/zma001599.shtml
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author Harendza, Sigrid
Bußenius, Lisa
Gärtner, Julia
Heuser, Miriam
Ahles, Jonathan
Prediger, Sarah
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Bußenius, Lisa
Gärtner, Julia
Heuser, Miriam
Ahles, Jonathan
Prediger, Sarah
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description Background: Undergraduate medical students take the licensing exam (M3) as a two-day oral-practical examination. The main requirements are to demonstrate history taking skills and coherent case presentations. The aim of this project was to establish a training in which students can test their communication skills during history taking and their clinical reasoning skills in focused case presentations. Methods: In the newly developed training, final-year students took four telemedical histories in the role of physicians from simulated patients (SP). They received further findings for two SPs and presented these in a handover, in which they also received a handover of two SPs which they had not seen themselves. Each student presented one of the two received SPs in a case discussion with a senior physician. Feedback was given to the participants on their communication and interpersonal skills by the SPs with the ComCare questionnaire and on the case presentation by the senior physician. Sixty-two students from the universities of Hamburg and Freiburg in their final year participated in September 2022 and evaluated the training.Results: Participants felt that the training was very appropriate for exam preparation. The SPs' feedback on communication and the senior physician's feedback on clinical reasoning skills received the highest ratings in importance to the students. Participants highly valued the practice opportunity for structured history taking and case presentation and would like to have more such opportunities in the curriculum.Conclusion: Essential elements of the medical licensing exam can be represented, including feedback, in this telemedical training and it can be offered independent of location.
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spelling doaj.art-b940492cce7546588dafa6e11a498d692023-05-02T13:51:03ZdeuGerman Medical Science GMS Publishing HouseGMS Journal for Medical Education2366-50172023-04-01402Doc1710.3205/zma001599“Fit for the finals” – project report on a telemedical training with simulated patients, peers, and assessors for the licensing examHarendza, Sigrid0Bußenius, Lisa1Gärtner, Julia2Heuser, Miriam3Ahles, Jonathan4Prediger, Sarah5Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, III. Medizinische Klinik, Hamburg, GermanyUniversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, III. Medizinische Klinik, Hamburg, GermanyUniversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, III. Medizinische Klinik, Hamburg, GermanyAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Studiendekanat, Freiburg, GermanyAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Studiendekanat, Freiburg, GermanyUniversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, III. Medizinische Klinik, Hamburg, GermanyBackground: Undergraduate medical students take the licensing exam (M3) as a two-day oral-practical examination. The main requirements are to demonstrate history taking skills and coherent case presentations. The aim of this project was to establish a training in which students can test their communication skills during history taking and their clinical reasoning skills in focused case presentations. Methods: In the newly developed training, final-year students took four telemedical histories in the role of physicians from simulated patients (SP). They received further findings for two SPs and presented these in a handover, in which they also received a handover of two SPs which they had not seen themselves. Each student presented one of the two received SPs in a case discussion with a senior physician. Feedback was given to the participants on their communication and interpersonal skills by the SPs with the ComCare questionnaire and on the case presentation by the senior physician. Sixty-two students from the universities of Hamburg and Freiburg in their final year participated in September 2022 and evaluated the training.Results: Participants felt that the training was very appropriate for exam preparation. The SPs' feedback on communication and the senior physician's feedback on clinical reasoning skills received the highest ratings in importance to the students. Participants highly valued the practice opportunity for structured history taking and case presentation and would like to have more such opportunities in the curriculum.Conclusion: Essential elements of the medical licensing exam can be represented, including feedback, in this telemedical training and it can be offered independent of location.http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2023-40/zma001599.shtmlexamformative testingsimulationtelemedicinetraining
spellingShingle Harendza, Sigrid
Bußenius, Lisa
Gärtner, Julia
Heuser, Miriam
Ahles, Jonathan
Prediger, Sarah
“Fit for the finals” – project report on a telemedical training with simulated patients, peers, and assessors for the licensing exam
GMS Journal for Medical Education
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title “Fit for the finals” – project report on a telemedical training with simulated patients, peers, and assessors for the licensing exam
title_full “Fit for the finals” – project report on a telemedical training with simulated patients, peers, and assessors for the licensing exam
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title_full_unstemmed “Fit for the finals” – project report on a telemedical training with simulated patients, peers, and assessors for the licensing exam
title_short “Fit for the finals” – project report on a telemedical training with simulated patients, peers, and assessors for the licensing exam
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