Ars Docendi Recognition Award for MedUni Vienna’s Medical Humanities

Bild: BMBWF/Martin Lusser - An innovative teaching project at MedUni Vienna has been awarded the Recognition Prize at this year's Ars Docendi State Prize Awards. "Medical Humanities" achieved a shortlist nomination in the category "Learning Outcomes-Oriented Teaching and Examination Culture" and received a recognition award. Studying medicine involves the comprehensive acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes. At MedUni Vienna, this broad spectrum of skills is strengthened by discussing aspects of medical humanities with medical students, among other things. Challenging situations in everyday medical life are addressed in this project with a range of freely selectable forms of expression, for example graphic illustrations, literature, medical comics and music. These have proven their worth in situations when it was necessary to communicate the unspeakable. In a four-year project, this method was tested, adopted in compulsory lessons and rolled out to different teaching elements.