Be a Doc
Professionalization in medical studies
Background
Due to a continuously and rapidly changing professional environment, increasingly complex demands on the medical profession and rapidly changing knowledge, the training of specific higher-level skills and the medical role of the "professional practitioner" is becoming increasingly important. This requires not only medical (specialist) knowledge, but also attitudes and a critical examination of one's own medical identity.
With the help of a curricular offer, the development of professionalization is to be systematically anchored at the MHH.
Professionalization is generally understood as the development process towards a specific profession. Specific skills must be learned and acquired for this. Professionalism is demonstrated in the implementation of the skills learned, i.e. in the specific medical actions of a particular quality.
Aim
The "Be a Doc" project aims to promote the professional development of medical students at an early stage in order to train reflective graduates who can optimally meet the non-medical challenges of the medical profession. "Be a Doc" focuses on the topic of professionalization and the targeted development of personal and interpersonal skills and attitudes relevant to the medical profession.
In this context, the compulsory elective subject I and II "Medical identity and professionalization: being a physician" was developed for students from the 2nd year of study and has been offered for the first time since the 2023/24 academic year.
The accompanying questionnaire "Professionalization in medical studies (MediProf)" was developed to enable students to reflect on their own medical identity and professionalization. In addition, the results of the survey can be used to develop further targeted teaching formats relating to the topic of professionalization and anchor them in the curriculum.
Funding
This project is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture as part of the funding program "Innovative teaching and learning concepts: Innovation plus".
Project team
PD Dr. Kambiz Afshar (project management)
Dipl.-Psych. Larissa Fey (research assistant)
Curriculum development team
Sarah Meissner
Dr. Sabine Klinger
Please contact
E-Mail: Afshar.Kambiz@mh-hannover.de
Phone: +49 511 532-5855
Contact address
Hannover Medical School
Institute ofGeneral Medicine and Palliative Medicine
Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1
30625 Hanover