Studies

The Peer2Peer program aims to be a point of contact where future doctors, health care professionals and scientists can improve and promote their own health, teaching students how to deal with crisis situations in their own life as well as in patient care. The program features trained student tutors who are a first point of contact in situations involving learning challenges, test anxiety and stress related to their studies. These "peers" are supervised and trained by health care professionals. In addition to these "peers" supervising and relaying information, medical professionals in the division can—when necessary—offer psychosomatic and psychotherapeutic services to maintain the health of doctors.

Contact: Vajda Christian

The focus at the Medical University of Graz is on the communication skills taught in the curriculum of the Medicine degree program. In line with the biopsychosocial model, a trusting relationship between doctor and patient is especially important and critical to achieving better diagnostics and therapy and thus greater patient satisfaction.

One important component in the teaching and improvement of these communication skills is practical medical training with simulation patients. In a safe environment, students can practice with "patients" played by actors and master conversational techniques, the process of breaking bad news and giving a diagnosis as well as professional behavior in realistic work situations.

Contact: Tritthart Herta

To prepare future doctors for digitalization in medicine, this interuniversity project funded by the BMBWF deals with different aspects of digitalization (including knowledge and understanding of digitalization, handling data and media, image processing, AI, etc.). Our division focuses on the communicative process within the digital framework (telemedicine) and offers a specialization in teaching. Educational research is also conducted.