Teaching
In the "HannibaL" model degree program in Human medicine, Medical Psychology is involved in four teaching modules during the first two years of study. In addition, individual teaching units are designed in the following years of study and in the MHH 's Master's degree course in Public Health.
In lectures, seminars and internships, medical psychology basics on learning, emotions, memory, motivation, personality, stress, developmental psychology and scientific methods are taught and transferred to medical treatment and long-term care, especially of chronically ill patients.
Our learning objectives are based on the training objectives formulated in the National Competence-Based Learning Objectives Catalog for Medicine (2015)(http://www.nklm.de): "Skills for scientific analysis as well as for the collection and evaluation of data and facts of the biological, physiological and psychosocial interdependencies of humans in health and illness."
The internships of module 202 in particular focus on practical skills in the application of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as well as Communications, interaction and teamwork.
Detailed information on curricula, teaching content, learning objectives and current literature can be found in the MHH's ILIAS system(https://elearning.mh-hannover.de/ ) for students.
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Medical psychology topics in the interdisciplinary propaedeutic course during the first year of study are developed in each of the four topic weeks (kidney, pain (back), cancer and lung) using clinical examples in lectures, but above all in seminars in small groups with patients.
The focus is on the topics of anamnesis, recording pain, psychosocial stress caused by chronic pain, acute and long-term psychosocial consequences of breast cancer and patient training for lung diseases.
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This module was developed together with the MHH Medical Sociology team.
The lectures and the seminars tailored to them take place over 15 weeks in the 2nd and 3rd tertial of the 2nd year of study. The module concludes with a written examination (MCQ).
The following topics are dealt with from a psychological and sociological perspective using specific clinical cases as examples:
- Definitions of health and illness as well as the basics of a bio-psycho-social model of illness using the example of behavioral disorders in childhood
- Demographic development, distribution of diseases in the population and utilization behavior as well as their socio-political significance for the healthcare system
- Key points of the German healthcare system in comparison to welfare state or private sector systems
- Neurobiological and psychological principles of perception, learning, emotions, thinking and memory and their application in medical practice (e.g. psychological interventions in obesity, anxiety disorders, depression, dementia, oncology, diabetology)
- Interactions between experience, behavior, nervous system, hormonal system and immune system (e.g. as a result of the effects of stressors; disease-related distress)
- Psychological principles of motivation and their application, e.g. in counseling for disease prevention, treatment motivation, coping with illness, promotion of self-management and adherence (e.g. in oncology, diabetology, cardiology, nephrology, pediatrics)
- Developmental psychological and sociological principles across the lifespan; e.g. risks for physical and psychological development in childhood; social inequality in relation to disease risks; care for the multimorbid and/or demented very elderly
- Methods of basic psychological and sociological research, clinical research, epidemiology, evidence-based medicine and psychological diagnostics.
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The medical-psychological teaching components in this interprofessional module focus on theoretical principles, but above all on practical exercises in Communications between physicians and patients. Qualified simulation patients (MHH simulation patient program) are used to practice taking medical histories and communicating diagnoses.
The lectures and internships in small groups of 10 students each take place in the 2nd year of study. They extend over 15 weeks in the 2nd and 3rd tertial and conclude with a practical OSCE examination.
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The elective course "Psychological Aspects in Pediatrics" is aimed at second-year students who are particularly interested in the treatment and care of chronically ill children and adolescents. Students gain an insight into current research projects on the training and long-term psychosocial treatment of young patients with rare metabolic disorders (e.g. PKU), diabetes and nephrological diseases.
They also spend time in various pediatric departments at the MHH and at the Children's and Adolescent Hospital on the Bult in Hanover.
In the Master's degree course in Population Medicine and Public Health, the Research and Teaching Unit Medical Psychology is represented by the seminar "Public Health Psychology", in which central psychological theories of healthy behavior and methods to promote it as well as basic behavioral epidemiological models are taught (Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas von Lengerke).