Study hospital

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A study hospital is a training facility for medical students. The rooms in which this is practiced are modeled on normal patient and examination rooms in order to enable training that is as authentic as possible with a real clinic flair. There is a crucial difference in the fact that a wall in the hospital room consists of a transparent mirror pane and video cameras film the scene. In the adjoining room, supervising tutors and fellow students can observe the simulated situation without disrupting the process. The prospective doctors can practice patient admission and care with anamnesis , interviewing and various examination techniques in a realistic one-on-one situation on amateur actors or actors . The "standardized patients" have practiced their given roles, they can convincingly simulate complicated and apparently simple situations. This is usually followed by a debriefing in which the "doctor", fellow students and tutor discuss, in which the "patient" also contributes as a central component. His part includes the non-medical aspects such as communication, the course of discussions and the behavior of the junior doctors. The concept behind this is a learning process that is primarily based on self-knowledge and takes place "on an equal footing", mainly through suggestions from fellow students and the tutor, often a student in a higher semester. The aim is to ensure that medical students already have initial experience in doctor-patient communication and master basic examination methods before they meet “real” patients in the clinic during their studies . Study hospitals of this kind were set up at the medical faculties in Heidelberg, Mannheim, Marburg, Münster, Leipzig and Tübingen, among others.

An alternative concept to this are skills labs .

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