Professional Studies in Medicine

Professional Studies in Medicine

The Doctor-Patient course extends over the first two years of the programme of professional studies in medicine. The goal is for students to build basic clinical skills such as communication and practical examination techniques, through meetings with patients, other medical students and actors (F-lab). Patient meetings challenge the student's and the doctor's total competency. The course consequently puts an emphasis on knowledge, skills, and behaviour, and how these are integrated in realistic situations. Another important element in the student's total competency is the relationship between the personal and the professional. The students are therefore given guidance concerning personal development.

Problem-based Learning - PBL – is held in groups with 8-10 students each during the course of the first two years of medical studies. Everyone with teaching obligations participates as a group leader. The instruction takes as its starting point written casuistics, which students turn into problem exercises that they solve together using information about the illness's history.

IIIC is a semester devoted to environmental and community medicine. The core of the semester is a six-week placement in the municipal health services system. The Department of Community Medicine is responsible for the course content of this semester.