Teaching practice network
Teaching practice network
Strong network for outpatient training
The model degree programme in human medicine focuses on intensive practical training from the very first module - both in the cooperating hospitals of University Medicine Oldenburg and in outpatient medicine.
Within the first three years of study, students spend a total of six weeks in outpatient internships as part of the integrated internships, four of which are in general medicine. In the fourth and fifth years of study, students mainly gain practical experience in a clinical setting, in line with the content of the curriculum.
In order to be able to guarantee this training, which continues later in the General Medicine block internship (year 4/5) and in the practical year (year 6), University Medicine Oldenburg can draw on a large network of practices of registered doctors in north-west Germany who participate in the training and are prepared and supported by the Department of General Medicine. The network of teaching practices brings the practical everyday life of outpatient medicine into the degree programme.
We are not yet a teaching practice and would like to be part of it!
If you are interested in working as a teaching practice, please contact Renate Kettmann:
The Department of General Practice regularly organises the so-called "Teaching Doctors' Day". This gives you the opportunity to obtain comprehensive information and training so that you can supervise medical students in Oldenburg in the future.
You can also find more information here: https://uol.de/allgemeinmedizin/lehrpraxen-netzwerk
Information for existing teaching practices
We offer training sessions for our teaching practices in order to be prepared for all work shadowing placements, the block placement and the practical year.
Since 2018, we have been organising the allocation of work shadowing places and places for the block internship via the university's own tool (Stud.IP).
If you would like to change the details of your practice (staff, equipment, etc.), please let us know by email:
Criteria for teaching physicians and teaching practices at the University of Oldenburg
The three-stage Oldenburg training model
Stage 1:
The GP must complete a questionnaire and attend a training event (3 double hours) and is taught the content of the internships. After the first training session, he/she becomes a "shadowing practitioner" and is authorised to supervise students during the first three years of study.
Special features:
Teaching content of work shadowing (logbooks):
1. introduction and musculoskeletal system
2. anamnesis and examination in diseases of the internal organs
3. chronic diseases of the internal organs as well as prevention and doctor and law
4. counselling, disability & patients in the nursing home
Due to the course content, a sonography device is a prerequisite for the third observation period.
2nd stage:
Those who have gained experience with students in the work shadowing placements may also supervise students in the two-week block placement in general medicine (year 4/5) after further training on the topic of block placements in general medicine. The practice may now call itself an "academic teaching practice", whereby the qualification is linked to the teaching doctor who has attended the training course.
3rd stage:
In order to supervise PJ students again, you must have gained experience with the block placement. You remain an academic teaching practice.
An additional room or consultation room should be available in the practice where students can also speak to and examine patients alone.
MVZ/joint practice:
- The general practitioner should be interested in working as a teaching doctor on a long-term basis, as the function as a teaching practice is personalised.
- The doctors can share the training courses. However, if they move to another practice, they may have to make up for/complete training.
Otherwise, the requirements are similar to those for recognition as a training centre by the Medical Association:
- The most comprehensive GP care possible
- Broad patient clientele
- Home visits
- Care of nursing home residents
- Orientation towards conventional medicine
For teaching practices that are not close to home: it is desirable to provide support in realising the stay so that the students also choose the practice. It is ideal if the local authority can provide a guest room. There is partial support from the districts for travel expenses.