Paedimed: Pedagogic competencies in medicine, Medical competencies in education
Paedimed is a health promotion project based on a resource oriented salutogenic health concept. By specific measures, individuals shall be enabled to increase their control over their own health status and to improve their health actively. This concept focuses on the resources of individuals and not on risk factors.
Health promotion has not yet been implemented in Europe in a sufficient manner. For this reason, partners from the fields of health and education in Germany, Italy and Romania have joined forces to support this concept.
The aim of PAEDIMED is to develop, implement and evaluate a web-based learning environment for schools. This learning environment will focus on the subjects of skin/skin diseases and sexuality/sexually transmittable diseases.
Within a Blended Learning Concept, e-learning, presence learning and other forms and methods of learning will be integrated by means of systematic media use and a step-by-step concept adaptable to individual conditions.
The intention of the project is to enable the target groups to acquire competencies and attitudes which will help them to stay healthy.
Target groups are the content multiplicators on one side (i. e. health professionals and teachers), and the pupils or students on the other side. The learning environment, once developed, will run as a test version in four schools in Germany, Italy and Romania.
Basic ideas
Paedimed is a health promotion project based on a resource oriented salutogenic health concept.
According to the salutogenesis model by Aaron Antonovsky and the Ottawa Charter of the World Health Organization (WHO), health promotion forms a multidimensional process whose aim it is to increase the level of control over their health state for all human beings.
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The aim is to enable individuals, by specific means, to increase their influence on their health and to improve it actively. The focus are those resources that will help the individual to stay healthy, and not risk factors.
Establishing health promotion on a higher level has not yet been realized sufficiently. Education and especially health education play a very important role in this process.
In this context, paedimed forms a health promotion project that, by specific means, intends to enable individuals to maintain good health.
Project aims
The aim of paedimed is to develop, implement and evaluate a learning environment for health promotion in schools while integrating new information and communication technologies.
Along the medical competencies of the project partners, contents are centered around the subjects skin (health, prevention / protection) and sexually transmittable diseases (prevention).
A learning environment will be developed, in which learning will be understood as an active and constructive process, yet requiring instructional help and social support. Within a Blended Learning Scenario, e-learning, presence learning and other forms and methods of learning will be integrated. Self learning, team learning und work-related learning will be connected by systematic media use and an individually adaptable step-by-step concept.
Thus, it is intended to make the chosen target groups (multiplicators und students) aware of a resource oriented health concept and the corresponding behaviour. They will acquire competencies and attitudes that will help them to maintain good health.
Targets groups
Target groups are the content multiplicators, i. e. health professionals and teachers on one side, and the pupils or students on the other side.
The designed learning environment will be implented in four schools in Germany, Italy and Romania as test environments. The participating schools are.
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Staatliche Berufsschule Neumarkt |
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Hauptschule Weinbergerstraße |
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Liceo Classico Marco Foscarini Venezia |
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Nationalkollegium "Mihai Eminescu“ |
Learning environment
The learning platform in Touch with Health, developed within the project PAEDIMED, offers a large variety of learning and teaching activities in the field of health promotion for students and multipliers.
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In Touch with Health is a Blended Learning Scenario for adolescents on the subjects of skin health (acne, eczema, sun protection) and protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It has been developed for the use in classroom teaching as well as in extracurricular projects. |
The learning environment is based on the results of a thorough needs and contextual analysis. This analysis refers to the latest scientific findings in the involved disciplines (Medicine, Educational Science), the specific needs of the target group and the local conditions in the involved educational institutions.
Please find here the didactic framework
Starting from the results of this analysis, a learning environment has been created which offers a maximum of flexibility and includes the following aspects: team learning, self guided learning, modular structure, interactive and narrative elements, various complexity levels and a large choice of learning and teaching activities.
Please click here to access the learning platform in Touch with Health
LEARNING AREA for students: There is a students’ area offering learning material for home study and classroom activities. Narrative and multimedia elements address the learner on an emotional level. Learning texts provide interesting information.
The subject matters are imbedded in audio stories whose main characters are teenagers who have already made some personal experiences with acne, sunburn etc.
A short film about HIV, an online quiz around acne and a virtual sun bath encourage the teenagers to engage actively with their (skin) health.
INSTRUCTIONAL AREA for multipliers: multipliers can plan their activities according to their needs. They are provided with material, allowing them to further their knowledge, and a large number of proposals for learning activities – from paper pencil stories to the use of multimedia.
Multipliers will find a wide choice of health educational activities. This choice ranges from short instructional units without media use (e.g. working sheets) to projects that are complex in terms of content, time and media use (e.g.: self-created multimedia campaigns on health promotion).
Implementation
The prototype of the learning environment was implemented in different schools in Germany (2x), Italy (1x) and Romania (1x).
The implementation aimed to monitor the learing scenario concerning its acceptability of the students and the multipliers.
As the contextual condition of the implementation differ from county to country and from school to school the multipliers could decide by themselves how to implement the scenario at their school and which learning methods to use.
Below you will find a detailed desciption for the implementation of the learning platform in each testing school. The documentation is offered as pdf for download.
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Staatliche Berufsschule Neumarkt |
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Hauptschule Weinbergerstraße |
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Liceo Classico Marco Foscarini Venezia |
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Nationalkollegium "Mihai Eminescu“ |
Download
Below you find the project information for download in different languages.
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Please find here a brief description about the paedimed project in general: DE, IT, RO, EN | |
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Please find here a brief description about the learning environment called "in Touch with Health":DE, IT, RO, EN | |
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In the case of hyperlinking from your website to the learning environment "in Touch with Health", please use the following claim: in Touch with Health |