POSTER
WBT-Program: “Psychosomatic
Medicine - Theory and Cases” (site in German)
Richard Wagner
(1) and Heike Egerding, Christiane Noack, Stefanie Otte and Uwe Gieler (2)
(1) AGMA,
Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University,
ABSTRACT:
Basics
in psychosomatic medicine are being taught in seminars, mainly by video
demonstration of patients and discussion of theoretical background, therapeutic
principles and physician-patient interaction. Our principle idea was to
represent these contents in a CBT-program.
The
web-based program contains brief but comprehensive chapters of theory, background
of diseases and psychotherapeutic issues. Twenty cases of the most frequent
psychosomatic diseases enable students to discover
real patient's experiences, their family and social background as well as
therapeutic recommendations.
Cases
contain video clips of real patient interviews and simulate the circle of
anamnestic (history taking) process. Questions to assess knowledge are spread
throughout the program to support student's learning effectively and to
maintain his attention.
Other
features of the program include: An extra chapter of multiple choice questions
taken from state examinations with online evaluation; a glossary linked to
content; links from cases to theory and vice versa; tracking progress (you see
what you did), and a site map (you see where you are).
The
program has been integrated into the undergraduate curriculum and evaluations
of students show that they like working with the program, because of its
brevity and the didactically well presented content.
All
content has been selected and written by three students getting their doctoral
theses for this work.
BENEFIT TO
PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:
The
authors have been fearless enough - or disrespectful? - to attempt to put
knowledge and practices of psychosomatic medicine into CBT, in a discipline
that is less concrete than other medical disciplines. They hope to have met the
state of the art in some issues, e.g. the use of knowledge diagnostic elements,
quiz and glossary. They hope, as well, to learn from discussions with
participants, if they really did.
Dr.
Richard Wagner
AGMA
- Educational Technology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig-Universitaet,
Gaffkystr.
11c,
D-35392
Giessen, Germany
Phone:
+49 641 99-40031
Fax:
+49 641 99-40039
Email:
Richard.Wagner@uni-giessen.de
Website:
www.agma.med.uni-giessen.de
CO-AUTHORS:
Heike
Egerding, Christiane Noack, Stefanie Otte, Prof. Dr. med. Uwe Gieler
Zentrum
fuer Psychosomatische Medizin
Justus-Liebig-Universitaet
Ludwigstr.
76, D-35392 Giessen
Phone:
+49 641 99-45650
Email:
Uwe.Gieler@psycho.med.uni-giessen.de Website: http://www.med.uni-giessen.de/psychosomatik/konsil/