Implementation of the rural doctor quota* at the Ulm Medical Faculty

ULI@Land - Ulm initiative to promote primary care in rural regions

With its ULI@Land initiative, the Ulm Medical Faculty aims to make a substantial contribution to ensuring healthcare provision in rural regions. Tailor-made programmes are designed to prepare future doctors for this task under the leadership of the Institute of General Practice.

Primary healthcare is provided on a multi-professional basis and in a network. (General) practitioners often play a key role in coordinating the provision of services by the healthcare professionals and facilities involved. In addition to the healthcare of individuals, the population focus (public health perspective) plays a key role in providing easily accessible, affordable, continuous and person-centred medical care.

From the beginning of the degree programme through to specialist training, we provide target group-specific support and, in cooperation with stakeholders in rural regions, take on the challenge of developing and testing future-oriented forms of care (including interprofessional cooperation and task sharing, networking, telemedicine applications). We support training longitudinally through mentoring and the establishment of networks that help students and doctors in further training to find their place in the region.
* See also the website of the Ministry of Social Affairs in Baden-Württemberg

Medical students should gain a comprehensive understanding of GP work and outpatient care. In addition to the core curriculum, we offer a wide range of opportunities in the continuum of studies to gain practical experience of GP work and the broad spectrum of outpatient healthcare and to practise the skills and abilities learnt. In co-operation with other specialist disciplines, we develop new teaching formats and incorporate the primary care perspective.

Get a taste of practice

Intensive and continuous insights into the subject areas and working world of general medicine with

  • Patient contact right from the start
  • 1:1 supervision in selected GP practices
  • Longitudinal anchoring in the course of the degree programme

This compulsory elective is offered in the winter semester.

Content and didactic realisation:
Institute of General Practice, sekretariat.allgemeinmedizin@uniklinik-ulm.de

"Healthy for a lifetime"

Based on the "living environments", the students deal with various areas of application of prevention in 6 seminars and explore the importance of preventive measures and possibilities of health promotion using practical examples. Principles of prevention and theoretical background knowledge are developed independently in the eLessons format, while practical modules offer insights into specific preventive measures and health promotion programmes in the context of 2-3-hour on-site visits. The students report on their experiences at a final event in the form of a group presentation.

Our co-operation partners come from:
Sports and rehabilitation medicine, nutritional science, child and adolescent psychiatry, occupational health management, social medicine, psychosomatics, health authorities, paediatric practices, GP practices.

From the practice to the campus
Dedicated GPs give students an insight into their way of working and thinking. Key topics in general practice are taught interactively in case-based seminars for 20 students each:

  • Emergencies and acute care in the GP practice
  • Chronically ill patients and multimorbidity
  • Rehabilitation, aftercare and getting well again
  • The seriously ill, the dying, their family and their home
  • The general practitioner as a panel doctor
  • New from summer semester 2021: Case-based learning, evidence-based medicine

Around 160 cooperating GP practices offer students individual learning locations where they can apply the medical knowledge and skills they have learnt so far to the care of patients in a GP practice and receive close supervision from experienced GPs. The aim is to understand the specifics of general practice and to experience outpatient care as the antithesis of a maximum care hospital.

Contact: Ines B.-Günther, ines.bekavac-guenther@uni-ulm.de

"Falling in love with safety"

This nationwide initiative by medical students (bvmd project www.sicher-verliebt.de) is supported by the Institute of General Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Ulm and is offered as an elective subject.
The focus is on education about sexual diseases and their prevention combined with practical experience, creating an atmosphere of trust, choosing appropriate words for emotionally charged content and responding to questions individually and appropriately.

PJ elective in general medicine - learning in practice for practice

  • Practise clinical skills across a broad spectrum
  • Basic medical care in various settings
  • Acquire confidence in assessing situations
  • Practising time management in everyday practice

  • Longitudinal patient contacts

We offer you support in selecting a qualified PJ teaching practice, 1:1 supervision by the practice team and accompanying seminars. Financial support is offered by the KV Baden-Württemberg:"Ziel und Zukunft" programme.