[Changes of teaching in the interdisciplinary subject "rehabilitation, physical medicine, naturopathic treatment" in the German medical faculties 2004 to 2006/07].

Background: Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine, Naturopathic Treatment (Querschnittsbereich Q-12) was introduced as a compulsory interdisciplinary subject in the revised Federal Medical Licensing Regulations (Approbationsordnung für Arzte) in October 2003. This offered the opportunity to increase the students' interest in rehabilitation-related issues and to integrate current evidence of rehabilitation research. The implementation of the Q-12 in the German medical faculties was investigated by yearly questionnaires during a three-year-period.

[Implementation of the new Federal Medical Licensing Regulations for doctors in the interdisciplinary subject "Rehabilitation, physical medicine, naturopathic treatment" by the German medical faculties].

The introduction of the new interdisciplinary subject "Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine, Naturopathic Treatment" based on the 9th revision of the Federal Medical Licensing Regulations (Approbationsordnung fur Arzte) implies new opportunities and challenges for teaching. In order to investigate the transfer of the new subject to teaching practise, a written questionnaire was sent to all German medical faculties. With regard to the implementation of new teaching structures and procedures in the subject, a range of different indicators was examined.

Updating of working memory in a running memory task: an event-related potential study.

The aim of the study was to identify central executive activity in the event-related potential (ERP) in the time and space domain. Lists of three to eight consonants were presented sequentially. After each list the ordered recall of the three most recent items was required.

[Effect of preload of working memory on components of evoked potentials during encoding of sequentially presented letter sequences].

In recent experiments with a pseudo-random sequence of 7 consonants to recall after trial (stimulus onset asynchrony 1000 ms) a reverse relationship between P300 amplitude of the event-related potential (ERP) and letter presentation position was shown (Grune et al., 1996). It was assumed that this relationship reflects competition between encoding and retention processes in this time regime.