Medical Studies

Physicians, in their role as medical experts, communicators, managers, and health advocates, interact with patients during the physical examination, diagnosis, treatment, consultation and health prevention. Moreover, physicians provide education to patients, families and support staff in relation to patient’s condition, diagnosis and treatment. Physicians offer resources with information that patients can use to make informed decisions about their treatment plan. They play a crucial role as an advocate for patients and their families, assisting them to navigate through the complex health care system, and enabling them to obtain the adequate and cost-effective care. These activities require high level of health literacy skills when facing patients with different background, culture and socioeconomic status.

The developed HL courses and materials can be implemented in the medical studies after adapting the contents to corresponding clinical cases and settings. While most courses can be directly applied in the medical education (e.g. Lectures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, others (e.g. Lectures 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15) need to be revised in the context of physician-patient interaction. For instance, for training of communication skills the provided scenarios need to be replaced with examples from clinical practice. In the context of prophylactic healthcare (i.e. vaccinations, birth control, regular health screenings, school- and occupational medicine) the Project-based learning and Community-based learning can be used in the education of medical students as well. The developed educational videos are specific for the physiotherapy settings, nevertheless the PEVA-model can be applied in the development of videos in clinical settings.