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Interdisciplinary Interprofessional Clinical Training

starting 7th Semester

This hands-on elective is dedicated to a variety of clinical skills and competencies. The course includes interdisciplinary and interprofessional course and teaching units and provides students with complex hands-on training. The goal of the course is to provide participants:with the opportunity to deepen and broaden their practical knowledge in as wide a range as possible.

Course Units:

  • Interprofessional learning using an interprofessional structured patient visit (information collection, problem identification, structured information exchange, documentation, optimization of interprofessional communication) to reduce errors and improve patient safety.
  • Case-based auscultation training by means of auscultation trainer (SAM)
  • Training of blood sampling on long-term vascular access (Broviac catheter, CVC and port system) using the Chester chest model
  • Theory of infusion management
  • Interprofessional wound management (tutor wound expert ICW)
  • Suture course, button techniques
  • i. v. access system on the infant model


If desired, a written examination is possible.

Skills Lab electives are taken as part of the regular elective course load through HIS-LSF.