The Use of Teaching Associates for Knee and Shoulder Examination: A Comparative Effectiveness Analysis.

Objective: Musculoskeletal diseases and injuries are the most common cause of long-term pain and physical disability. Thus, every medical graduate should be able to perform a structured examination of the musculoskeletal system. Besides the see-one-do-one principle, other teaching methods have been proposed to be effective.

[Train-the-Trainer: Professionalisation of Didactics in Daily Clinical Routine - the Personal Perception of Clinical Teaching Staff with Respect to Didactic Competence and the Framework Conditions of Teaching].

Background: Teaching training programs contribute to improving the quality of medical education. In a course of the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) concept of the Surgical Working Group for Teaching, teachers (TN) from different medical professions and career levels were taught together.

Aim Of The Work: Assessments of teaching activities in everyday clinical practice of residents (AÄ), senior staff (OÄ) and nurses (KP), their perception of teaching obstacles and requirements to improve teaching.

Do they teach what they need to? An analysis of the impact of curriculum mapping on the learning objectives taught in a lecture series in surgery.

Curriculum mapping shows concordances and differences between the intended and the taught curriculum. To our knowledge, no previous studies describe the effects that this mapping has on the curriculum. The aim of the present study is to map the content of a lecture series in surgery to the National Catalogue of Learning Objectives in Surgery and analyze the effects this mapping has on the content of the following lecture series.

Young surgeons' challenges at the start of their clinical residency: a semi-qualitative study.

Introduction: According to German regulations on licensing to practice medicine, the aim of undergraduate medical training is to produce a scientifically and practically trained physician who is able to work independently. More precisely, medical training has to impart the required knowledge and skills in diagnostics, therapy, health promotion, prevention, and rehabilitation. From the young residents' point of view, this aim is not achieved, and they do not feel prepared to be a doctor.

A nationwide survey of undergraduate training in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Purpose: To investigate the current status of undergraduate training in oral and maxillofacial (OMF) surgery in Germany using a nationwide survey and hence contribute to an educational improvement in the field.

Methods: A 39-item questionnaire was sent to all university clinics with an OMF surgery chair in Germany (n = 34).

Results: Ninety-two percent of OMF clinics are involved in the curricular training in medicine and 100% in dentistry.

[The Medical Examination - Between Desire and Reality - Analysis of Consensus Between the Second Part of the Medical Licensing Exam (IMPP) and the National Catalogue of Expertise-based Learning Goals in Surgery (NKLC)].

The working party of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH) on undergraduate surgical education has developed a national expertise-based catalogue of learning goals in surgery (NKLC). This study analyses the extent to which the questions of the German second medical licensing examination compiled by the IMPP are congruent with the NKLC and which thematic focus is emphasised. Firstly, a guideline and evaluation sheet were developed in order to achieve documentation of the individual examination questions of the second licensing examination with respect to the learning goals of the NKLC.

Undergraduate medical students need more training in craniomaxillofacial surgery: a comparative study between medical and dental students.

Purpose: To compare the performance in oral, craniomaxillofacial, and facial plastic surgery (CMF)-specific surgical skills between medical students (MS) and dental students (DS) and hence adjust the current CMF training to student-specific needs. The investigators hypothesized that there would be no performance differences between MS and DS.

Methods: The investigators implemented a comparative retrospective item-based analysis of student performance in a CMF-specific objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) from 2008 to 2015.

Conveying practical clinical skills with the help of teaching associates-a randomised trial with focus on the long term learning retention.

Background: Ensuring that all medical students achieve adequate clinical skills remains a challenge, yet the correct performance of clinical skills is critical for all fields of medicine. This study analyzes the influence of receiving feedback by teaching associates in the context of achieving and maintaining a level of expertise in complex head and skull examination.

Methods: All third year students at a German university who completed the obligatory surgical skills lab training and surgical clerkship participated in this study.

Structured evaluation and need-based restructuring of the cranio-maxillofacial surgery module within surgical clerkship.

Background: Evaluations are important for teaching courses and contribute to educational quality assurance. CMF surgery provides a module in the skills-lab week in preparation for surgical clerkship. Even though the CMF module receives positive evaluations, the students report deviating content.

Perspectives of patients about bioabsorbable internal fixation for maxillofacial fractures.

Purpose: Resorbable/bioabsorbable internal fixation provides effective treatment for maxillofacial fractures and avoids the need for metal hardware removal. We evaluated the initial knowledge, attitudes, subjective demand, and treatment satisfaction of patients concerning bioabsorbable osteofixation for maxillofacial trauma.

Materials And Methods: From May 2007 to October 2009, there were 71 patients (63 males and 8 females; mean age: 35 ± 15 years) included in this prospective study.