Lehre für die Lehrenden – Medizindidaktische Qualifikations-maßnahmen und ihre Bedeutung für die psychosozialen Fächer

Abstract

There is growing demand on medical teachers to exhibit not only scientific but also educational skills. While adequate faculty development programs are available in many countries for a fairly long time this is not the case in Germany, where such offerings still need to be better established. This article describes already existing programs.

The behavioral and social sciences might benefit from this increasing interest in faculty development in medical education in more than one regard. Firstly because an increased quality in teaching leads to greater student satisfaction. Secondly, a faculty better trained in educational matters raises the chance of major curriculum change which might lead to an enhancement of behavioral and social science content of medical school curricula, consistent with its growing relevance for medicine in general. Furthermore there is a closeness of behavioral and social sciences to educational matters concerning their methodological and factual expertise which gives the disciplines an excellent opportunity to improve their significance through educational research.