Piloting our student curriculum

An important part of our project is the testing of the developed learning units for students of the healthcare professions. With such pilot implementations we receive valuable feedback from the course participants, which will help us to further improve the learning units. Thus, each medical school in our consortium planned such a pilot implementation during fall/winter 2021.

Overall, we conducted 9 courses covering five different clinical reasoning topics until the end of January 2022. We managed to recruit 188 medical and nursing students from partner-, associate partner-, and external institutions. In addition, we piloted our virtual patient units with a total of 618 students. Overall, the feedback from the facilitators and the interest of students participating in our courses especially in international and interprofessional settings was very positive. The facilitators highlighted the discussion among participants, but in some units more time than anticipated was required. Similar to the train-the-trainer courses technical challenges were reported by participants due to their unfamiliarity with our learning platform. The collected feedback together with the participant questionnaires will provide the basis for improving the courses.

We published the full summary of the pilots on our results page.

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