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.