Elective Community Medicine I

If the number of participants is large enough, the students are divided into two groups, which run through ten seminar topics in parallel. The duration is 28 hours (2 SWS).

The course aims to deal with content-related and methodological aspects of community medicine, to critically analyze questions concerning the care system as well as evaluation, and to develop skills in the practical application of the acquired knowledge.

Students learn to integrate the holistic perspective of health and disease into their medical practice. In addition, there will be interdisciplinary linkages to related cross-cutting fields and disciplines. The goal of such a linkage is to highlight the positions of community medicine as a multidisciplinary discipline and to guarantee resource-efficient training at a high level.

Topics Winter semester 2024/2025

• Epidemiologische Maßzahlen bevölkerungsrelevanter Krankheiten
• Soziale Ungleichheit und Einflussfaktoren auf Gesundheit und Krankheit
• Public Health Impact von digitalen Präventionsmaßnahmen
• Epidemiologie von Schilddrüsenerkrankungen
• Diagnostik
• Gesundheitskompetenz
• Messmethoden in der Community Medicine
• Transition von Jugendlichen von der Pädiatrie in die Erwachsenenmedizin
• Prävention von chronischen Erkrankungen in Bevölkerungen

The learning objectives address different levels of learning. The process is divided into two levels:

• At the level of knowledge: students acquire a theoretical understanding of the relevant complex of topics from a holistic perspective.
• At the level of skill development: Students learn to critically analyze their own medical knowledge horizon in terms of knowledge stocks and gaps. The comprehensive examination of the many factors influencing health and disease lays the foundation for interdisciplinary thinking and action. In addition, at the end of the course, students are able to create and present a scientific poster.

Type of Performance Review:

• regular participation (max. 2 missing dates)
• Participation in group work
• Creation and presentation of a scientific poster (group work)
• On-time submission of the electronic poster file

The division into poster groups of maximum 4 students and the assignment of the poster topics related to the seminar content will take place in the introductory session. Each poster group should have found a topic as quickly as possible, the contents of which are to be presented on a poster and presented in the final event. The 1-3 scientific articles on which the poster is based can be researched by the group itself or suggested and provided by the instructor on the respective course topic. Each group is entitled to one consultation appointment, during which any comprehension questions should be answered.

The goal of the performance review is to scientifically work on a topic with a self-selected question and to reproduce it on a scientific poster. This should be followed by a short presentation including discussion. It is not the aim to reproduce the edited article(s) exclusively in terms of content.

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