Support for global health and pandemic preparedness in medical education in Germany: Students as change agents.
Int J Health Plann Manage
; 36(S1): 112-123, 2021 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1126375
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced Germany's role as global health player, but the education system is lagging behind and does not adequately prepare health professionals for the new challenges. This study aims to strengthen global health in undergraduate medical education in Germany. Major objectives include to review the current situation, explore changing demand for global health and introduce innovative teaching models and the drivers for change. Mixed methods and an explorative approach were applied, comprising a scoping review, online surveys carried out at Hanover Medical School, March/April 2020. Target groups were undergraduate medical students (n = 384) and additionally lecturers (n = 172), and finally new multiprofessional teaching courses initiated by students and developed collaboratively. The results reveal only slow pace of change on the level of the education system, while demand for global health education has increased markedly in all actor groups, but strongest in the group of students in the preclinical phase. Implementation of global health programmes illustrates how students can become change agents and enhance institutional innovation bottom-up. However, in order to achieve wider transformative potential, these efforts must be flanked by macro-level policy changes and integrated in future pandemic preparedness strategies.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students, Medical
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Global Health
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Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Randomized controlled trials
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Reviews
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Int J Health Plann Manage
Journal subject:
Health Services Research
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Health Services
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Hpm.3143
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