Editorial
The IML's Annual Report highlights our ongoing commitment to high-quality education and fair exam practices. Our activities in Education, Services and Research go hand in hand to support innovation and excellence in medical education.
News 2024
The past year was marked by personal achievements as well as the continued development of our service offerings. These highlights reflect the IML’s ongoing commitment to academic excellence. Discover the key moments that shaped this journey.
PhD project: Curriculum Development
Advancing medical education through applied research.
PhD project (SNF): Digital Learning and Teaching (DLT)
Implementing effective digital learning and teaching in higher education beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. Aligning key players’ needs, bringing distant communication close and supporting students’ individual learning.
PhD project (SNF): From threat to challenge
Improving medical students’ stress response and communication skills performance through stress arousal reappraisal and preparatory worked example-based learning when breaking bad news to simulated patients
PhD project: Post-graduate medical education programs
What makes post-graduate medical education programs (CME) at the University-level attractive?
PhD project: Peer teaching ultrasound
«Understanding and Facilitating Near-Peer-Teaching in Ultrasound Education.»
PhD project: Online and blended learning in Precision Medicine
Improving our understanding of teaching and learning methods acceptable and applicable for frontline healthcare professionals.
Precision Medicine for FRONTLINERS
Is a multi-support learning platform on Precision Medicine for the daily practice of frontline care professionals.
Self-Directed Learning (SDL) in the Healthcare Professions
How can students and experts be supported in maintaining their personel knoweldge?
Establishing Trust
Herangehensweise an das ängstliche Kind durch blended learning.
Gender gap phenomenon
Gender differences in the career motivations of health professionals.
Rassismus in der Medizin
Beitrag der GMA zur Sensibilisierung von Studierenden, Lehrenden und weiteren in der medizinischen Lehre tätigen Personen zum Thema rassistische Diskriminierung im Gesundheitswesen.
Viva VOsCE
Virtual Objective structered Clinical Examinations
DocCom.Deutsch
DocCom.Deutsch ist eine Serie medienunterstützter Online Module für die Aus-, Weiter- und Fortbildung in der Kommunikation im Gesundheitswesen. Daran beteiligt sind Ärztinnen und Ärzte sowie Fachpersonen aus der Schweiz, Deutschland und Österreich.
MedSurf
Numerous online learning programs like MorphoMed, RadioSurf or CliniSurf, which were developed at the Department for Education and Media AUM at the IML in conjunction with specialist representatives from the Faculty of Medicine, need to be updated.
E-learning for the Swiss National Science Foundation
Online learning modules combined with onsite training is an efficient way of reaching out to experts and supporting them in their evaluation tasks.
E-Learning und Beratung für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen
Beratung, Evaluation und Einbindung von eLearning für die Ärztekammer Niedersachsen (D).
Increasing communication skills with the help of sample videos
For medical students, it can be very challenging to communicate with patients in a goal-oriented and efficient way on the one hand and to convey empathy and appreciation on the other hand (at the same time).
Berner longitudinales Curriculum Virtuelle Patien:innen Notfallmedizin (BelViP)
Unterstützung der Studierenden zum Erlernen der selbständigen Behandlung von pädiatrischen und erwachsenen Notfallpatienten durch Einsatz von Virtuellen Patient:innen.
Algorithmus "Assess-med-BERT"
«Assess-med-BERT» ist ein Algorithmus zur automatisierten Erstellung von Distraktoren in deutschsprachigen Multiple Choice-Fragen für Online Self-Assessments, um das Lernen effizient zu unterstützen.
Examic Valuatic
Valuatic is an easy-to-use and efficient system for conducting oral and clinical assessments (especially OSCEs) without the use of paper forms.
Examic Measured
Examic Measured is an innovative online platform designed to help educational institutions and organisations easily create and administer exams and assessments.
Examic EOSCE
EOSCE is an easy-to-use and efficient system for conducting practical medical examinations (especially OSCEs) without the use of paper forms.
«BeFit» Project
Evaluation of the «BeFit» Project.
Evaluation von Praxisassistenzen
Überarbeitung der Erhebungsinstrumente für die Evaluation von Praxisassistenzen.
The Art of Assessment: Behind the Scenes of OSCEs and Multiple-Choice Exams
Exams in the health professions serve several important functions. This article describes how they are developed, conducted, and evaluated.
FRONTLINERS: Evidence based blended learning on Precision Medicine
Teaching precision medicine to primary care professionals: General Practitioners, Pharmacists, Advance practice nurses.
Paediatrics and Collège A Webinar:
Two innovative training formats for paediatricians in Switzerland
Two great international conferences on medical education in Basel with IML engagement
In 2024, two well-established international health profession education conferences were held in Switzerland, which are also of great importance to the IML: One was the conference of the ‘Association for Medical Education in Europe’, AMEE, and the ‘4th World Summit in Competency-Based Education in Healthcare Professions’.
Simulationspersonen-Programm
Simulationspersonen in Lehre und Prüfungen einzusetzen, ist an der Universität Bern fest verankert. Das Institut für Medizinische Lehre (IML) ist bestrebt, diese Methode laufend weiterzuentwickeln, um so Medizinstudierenden eine sichere Lernumgebung und realistische Prüfungssituationen für praktische Fertigkeiten zu bieten.
IT-Monitoring mit «Freier Software»
Das IML setzt viele verschiedene «Freie Software» für die Serverinfrastruktur (ca. 250 Systeme) ein: Betriebssysteme, Programmiersprachen und Bibliotheken, Applikationen, Webdienste, Datenbanken und ganze Anwendungen. Am konkreten Beispiel des IT-Monitorings wird der Einsatz von «Freier Software» exemplarisch beleuchtet.