MedUni Vienna has awarded honorary prizes for innovative curricular development and excellent teaching to lecturers at the university. The awards were presented as part of the major annual ceremony at the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Honorary award for excellent teaching
Block 14 - Kidney and homeostasis (nephrology seminar)
Gürkan Sengölge Nicolas Kozakowski Eva Maria Comperat
The idea for the course arose from feedback from students that there is a lot of frontal teaching in the curriculum, but few opportunities for practical "hands-on" experience in working through clinical cases. In addition, it is difficult to reflect interdisciplinary collaboration in solving clinical issues in a curriculum. With this in mind, a nephrology teaching concept was designed, which was further developed and implemented together with the Clinical Institute of Pathology and the Department of Urology. The basic idea was to deal with a complex, clinically relevant topic (evaluation of kidney function), which initially appears simple, but which accompanies all doctors regardless of their future specialty. Using concrete examples and exercises (interpretation of findings, independent urinary diagnostics, independent ultrasound), the pillars of renal function evaluation are taught in a practical way to promote a deep understanding and sustainable learning. A guideline, which all tutors receive in advance, was created to ensure that learning content and its delivery remain comparable in each group.
Block Z7 - Prosthetic basics, removable prosthetics
Martina Schmid-Schwap Astrid Skolka
In Block Z-7 - Prosthetic basics, removable prosthetics, the necessary procedures for prosthetic diagnostics and therapy are learned and practiced. This includes impression taking, model fabrication, bite registration techniques and articulator assembly as well as determining the occlusion status. Pre-therapy options for prosthetic treatment, such as fabricating a simple splint in the articulator and checking it in the mouth, are also practiced. In addition, the contents of removable prosthetics - restoration with metal frameworks or complete dentures - are taught both theoretically and practically in this block.
The theoretical basics are taught in the lectures, with special emphasis on interdisciplinary cooperation, important interdisciplinary aspects of oral and maxillofacial surgery such as special operations and pre-prosthetic orthodontics. New developments such as the digital fabrication of complete dentures and the biomechanics of the craniomandibular system using computer simulations are also presented. Skills are acquired and practiced manually in the practical course.
Line resuscitation exercises II
Florian Ettl Christoph Schriefl
In the compulsory course "Resuscitation Exercises II", students learn central aspects of advanced life support and the care of critically ill patients. The aim is to link theoretical knowledge with clinical practice and the learning of clinical skills within the framework of simulation-based teaching. To this end, training systems were purchased to simulate manual defibrillation, monitoring and the care of critically ill patients. The line element is also accompanied by a Moodle course. This is intended to enable more targeted theoretical preparation for the course and thus create more time for practical learning. This interactive Moodle course includes short videos on how to perform resuscitation correctly, rhythm analysis, videos on assessing critically ill patients using the ABCDE scheme and moderated theoretical content. The current resuscitation guidelines, knowledge checks, interactive video clips and drag-and-drop exercises are also provided. This "blended learning" is intended to create an optimal learning environment for students to achieve their learning objectives.
Introduction to molecular and cell biology work
Maximilian Härtinger Flavia Millesi Sarah Stadlmayr
Due to the constant supervision of graduate students in their research laboratory, the course instructors were able to determine that a time-consuming familiarization phase is necessary at the beginning of laboratory work in order to introduce students to working in the research laboratory. Therefore, the aim of this course was to teach students the ubiquitous basics of research work even before they start working in a laboratory in order to make it easier for students to get started in research and to reduce the training effort. The course was held as a hands-on practical course in which, supported by theoretical units, the understanding of in vitro research was deepened. In several modules, students learned how to work out a relevant translational question, select the appropriate analytical methods to answer it, carry out appropriate experiments, analyze the data obtained and interpret the results. Ethical and environmental aspects were also examined. In the final unit, results were presented and the students reflected on what they had learned.
