Objective: On October 1 (st) 2003 Emergency Medicine was recognised for the first time as an independent cross section speciality in the new German "Approbationsordnung fuer Aerzte" (Medical Licensing Regulations). These amendments were made not only to increase the amount of small group teaching sessions but also to encourage a multidisciplinary and rather practical approach to the related topics. This article portrays the realisation of these objectives in form of a multidisciplinary module, as it has been established at University of Göttingen Medical School since the summer semester of 2004. We present the new curriculum, calculate the associated personnel resources and demonstrate the results of the structured evaluation given by the participating students.

Methods: We linked the fields of emergency and intensive care medicine by splitting them up into submodules which the students had to run through according to a set rota. 162 students were allocated to 27 small groups. Every student received a total of 38.5 hours of teaching, with the workshops coming to 46.8 %. The workshops comprised of nine sessions, three in Emergency Medicine, four in Intensive Care Medicine and two at human patient simulators. In addition we scheduled a seminar and an accompanying lecture. The final examination was performed as an Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE).

Results: The realisation of the new module required a total of 1290 working hours for medical staff and 130 for our student aids. Compared to all other modules of Goettingen University Medical School the module here presented obtained the highest overall evaluation score by the medical students. Lessons with a high amount of practical involvement (i. e. Emergency Medicine and simulator-based workshops) were significantly better evaluated than rather formal teaching techniques, such as the lectures and the seminar. According to the students' self-assessment the simulator-based workshops were seen particularly valuable for the facilitation of knowledge transfer into clinical practice.

Conclusion: The determined realisation of the new German Medical Licensing Regulations requires considerable time resources. However, its evaluation by the medical students is strikingly positive.

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