Abstract
We are presenting our pre-clinical tutorial “Practice-oriented Applications” as part of the Medical Psychology Seminar at Greifswald University. Our innovations include “real life” training in the psychological problem areas of medical practice through realistic student-led examinations of simulation patients and presentations of scientific project reports at a student congress. Students worked on one of four problem areas regarding content, practice, and research: 1) medical pain history for chronic back pain patients, 2) motivational interviewing for addiction cases, 3) shared decision-making with depression patients, and 4) breaking bad news to cancer patients. Overall, the students (n = 189) evaluated the pre-clinical tutorial positively. The final student congress manifested a valuable diversity of quantitative, qualitative, and didactical research reports. We feel encouraged to follow up this perspective in medical psychological education.
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