DEGREE IN HUMAN MEDICINE

The degree program in human medicine prepares students for their future career as a doctor for all disciplines. Theoretical basics and practical skills are taught in an integrative, topic-centered and patient-oriented form. Human science aspects in the sense of the bio-psychosocial model are of particular importance. Furthermore, the basics of scientific thinking are conveyed. The aim is to create the best prerequisites for entry into professional life and optimal foundations for post-doctoral training in all medical fields for students on the basis of a broad medical education. At the same time, the students are enabled  To be able to critically deal with the medical changes in the course of the activity in the sense of lifelong learning. This curriculum also requires the content of post-doctoral training to be integrated in order to create a consistent concept for the entire medical training. 

The aim of the degree program in human medicine is to impart theoretical knowledge, practice and promote psychosocial skills, practical skills and the formation of basic ethical attitudes. It consists of a core curriculum (compulsory subjects) and elective elements (compulsory electives and free electives). The definition of the core curriculum is based on clinical presentations, the selection of which is made according to the following criteria:

• Epidemiology
• Urgency of treatment
• Severity and
• Prototype

The learning objectives of the individual clinical presentations are defined according to the biopsychosocial model of medicine in the following dimensions: knowledge (biomedical / psychosocial), skills / abilities (current, apparatus and instrumental process engineering) and attitudes / attitudes, with content from the areas of prevention and rehabilitation , Ethics, geriatrics and palliative medicine are given special consideration. For medical ethics, this means integrating ethically relevant topics into the individual modules and at the same time making them recognizable as such. These topics are built on each other:

• Clarification, communication and discussion of the theoretical frame of reference, the basic terms, conceptual tools and the methodological approach
• Application of the basic terms and agreed procedural rules to specific cases or problems
• Description, reflection and evaluation of the process and the results.