Surgical experiences of final-year undergraduates and the impact on their career aspiration stratified by sex/gender.

Objectives: Surgical undergraduate training takes place in a male-dominated work environment that struggles with recruitment problems. Experiences of cultural and sex/gender-specific barriers of women in surgery have been reported worldwide. Overall, the experiences that students have in coping with the emotional impact of surgery as a profession are thought to be crucial to their subsequent career choices.

Final-year information on didactic and organizational issues for students and supervising physicians - project report on the development and implementation of the cross-site website PJ-input.

Objective: Final-year training is becoming increasingly important in medical studies and requires a high degree of personal responsibility from students. It is the task of supervising physicians to make informal learning opportunities available to students when working with and on patients and to gradually transfer responsibility to them. Both students and physicians have a great need for information regarding the contextual conditions and didactic realization of this transfer of responsibility.

Experience-based learning during the final year - quantitative content analyses of students' self-reports.

Purpose: The final year offers students the opportunity to explore their future role as a physician in different environments. Learning success depends in large part on how students experience these assignments. The aim of this study is to analyze students' self-reported experiences to derive factors that promote experience-based learning in the transition phase during the final year of medical school in order to optimally prepare students for professional practice.

Gaining interprofessional knowledge and interprofessional competence on a training ward.

Background: Since 2017, interprofessional training wards have been established in Germany. On these wards, different health professions collaboratively provide patient care supervised by facilitators from the background. We investigated the gains in interprofessional knowledge and interprofessional competence reported after the mandatory placements on Mannheim's Interprofessional Training Ward MIA.