PROFMED - Medical students' professional identity formation during hospital practice
PROFMED aims to improve medical students’ hospital placement learning, and support the development of a professional doctor’s identity.
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This is done by 1) systematically preparing students for workplace participation, and 2) educating hospital doctors who interact with students at Haugesund hospital.
The project will address fourth-year medical students in Bergen, who do their placements in surgery and internal medicine in 4 different hospitals. Intervention 1 consists of student-active activities to prepare students intellectually and affectively for hospital placement, using peer-peer and digital learning activities to provide information and support reflection. Intervention 2 is a collaborative, locally anchored faculty development project targeting all relevant physicians at Haugesund hospital, offering a longitudinal program for developing reflexive supervision skills, aiming at long-term learning environment changes, and can easily be applied to other practice settings, in other fields, both locally, nationally and internationally.
The project is funded by DIKU - Direktoratet for internasjonalisering og kvalitetsutvikling i høyere utdanning/The Directorate for internationalization and quality development inhigher education.
PROFMED – the project group, 2020-23:
| Edvin Schei | Professor, Center for medical education. General practitioner | Project leader |
| Varasha Jacob William | MD, project coordinator | Center for medical education |
| Margot de Rijke | MD, project coordinator | Center for medical education |
| Monika Kvernenes | Associate professor, pedagogue | Leader, Center for medical education (CME), U of Bergen |
| Bjørn Egil Vikse | Professor, senior consultant, internal medicine | Leader of students’ clinical practice, Haugesund hospital |
| Steinar Hunskår | Professor, family medicine | Former dean of education |
| Harald Wiker | Professor, microbiologist | Leader, medical program |
| Arne Tjølsen | Professor, neurologist | Former dean of education |
| Hilde Grimstad | Professor, family medicine | Leader of Center for medical education, U of Trondheim (NTNU) |
| Eivind Valestrand | Phd candidate in medical education, CME | Professional identity development |
| Idun grimstad Skjærseth | Medical student, U of B | Research student project |
| Kari Indrekvam | Professor, orthopaedic surgeon | Leader 8th semester |
| Knut Øymar | Professor, paediatrics | Committee leader new medical curriculum year 3-6 |
| Thomas Mildestvedt | Associate professor, family medicine | Responsible for general practice education |
| Donald Boudreau | Associate professor, Institute of Health Care Education, McGill University, Montreal | Interim institute leader |
| Terese Stenfors | Senior researcher at the Centre for Learning in Health Care Contexts | Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm |
| Tim Dornan | professor, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Emeritus Professor, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. | Developer of ExBL model of practice learning (Experience Based Learning) |
| Beth Whelan | Associate prof, psychologist, NFL, Canada | Student counselling |
| Hannah Gillespie | MD | Tim’s phd candicate |
| Cathinka Thyness | MD | Hilde’s phd candidate |