Erfahrungen mit Standardisierten Patienten im neuen Lehrkonzept zur Vermittlung kommunikativer Kompetenzen im Fach Medizinische Psychologie – das Jenaer Modell

According to the new legislation on licensure requirements for physicians, the education of future physicians attaches importance on teaching communicative skills.

The Medical Faculty in Jena offers a seminar about communication skills for physicians in line with the course of Medical Psychology/Sociology to meet the new requirements. The concept includes utilizing communicative exercises with role plays and Standardized Patients on medical-psychological topics. The concept is introduced and experiences are reported.

Therefore quantitative and qualitative data from students, lecturers, and standardized patients are used. Furthermore results of a group discussion with students of an anamnesis group are presented, which discuss the assets and drawbacks of role plays, Standardized Patients and real patients.

To summarise, the applied methods are training different partial competencies and complement one another.