The ability to team up and safely work in any kind of healthcare team is a critical asset and should be taught early on in medical education. Medical students should be given the chance to "walk the talk" of teamwork by training and reflecting in teams. Our goal was to design, implement and evaluate the feasibility of a simulation-based teamwork training (TeamSIM) for undergraduate medical students that puts generic teamwork skills centerstage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTeaching Interprofessional Patient Pathways in Medical Education in Switzerland - A Collaboration of Multiple Players The increase of chronic and complex medical disorders challenges actors in the health care system and affects the entire health care system in Switzerland. Through an interprofessional exchange between medical and health care professionals, the individual needs of patients can be better addressed, which has a positive impact on patients' treatments. To prepare students of the Bachelor of Medicine at ETH Zurich for these challenges, the ETH has designed a specific course together with four educational institutions, which is oriented towards the interprofessional, patient-centred supply chain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 has turned the 2020 spring semester upside down. Three days before the start of the block week of the "Teamwork" module, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) announced the ban on live interaction, which made it impossible to conduct five days of practice in the simulation centre of the University Hospital of Zurich. But how can the teaching of all the learning objectives necessary for medical training be guaranteed during an exceptional situation with constantly changing conditions? In the case of the BSc Human Medicine at ETH Zurich (ETHZ), the answer is: Hybrid teaching.
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