Students
Education
Learning & skills
Continuous acquisition of knowledge and development of skills, will bring us one step closer to personal progress and professional development.
- Communication Skills
- Clinical Education Assessment
- Students’ Soft Skills
- Placement Program APOVASIS
- Medical Student Theater Group
knowledge - skills - behavior
Communication Skills
From the academic year 2024-25, the Department of Medicine has decided to introduce the elective course “Communication Skills” in the 2nd year of studies, which, in addition to basic skills, also covers training in specific communication topics, including the announcement of unpleasant news, intercultural communication, communication with the angry patient, explanation of medical problems and medical procedures, as well as communication of risk, interprofessional and interdisciplinary communication, error recognition, complaint management, communication with patients whose native language is not Greek, and the avoidance of prejudice and discrimination during patient care.
Clinical Education Assessment
The Department of Medicine supports Students’ Clinical Education in different Departments of the University General Hospital of Ioannina, while the 6th year of studies also includes Clinical Education in primary health care structures (Health Centers). For students’ clinical skills, it is necessary for students to have practice in simulated conditions, so that their instructors can trust them during Clinical Education with real patients. Students participate in the course “Introduction to Clinical Medicine” during the 2nd year of studies and in the corresponding laboratory exercises in simulated conditions.
Clinical Education begins in the 3rd year of study and aims to expose students to basic clinical and communication skills through courses as well as through practical training either on real patients or on volunteers in the role of patients (see Medical Students’ Theater Group) under the supervision of their instructors, but also, as the case may be, without supervision (before receiving their degree). The Head of each Department for Clinical Education determines the basic skills to which students will have the opportunity to be exposed and the manner in which their training in them will be assessed. These basic skills during Clinical Education are presented in the training booklets (logbooks) of each Department, which are completed by students during Clinical Education in each Department and are evaluated by the Head of the Department and the Clinical Education instructors.
Soft skills
The importance of soft skills in the optimal care of the patient is an important factor in medical practice as it seems to affect not only the psychological state of the patient, but also the course of the disease. Soft skills are essential skills for every health professional, for communication with the patient, with colleagues and for managing stress and emotions.
The Hellenic Medical Student International Relations Committee (HelMSIC), created the 1st episode of the HelMSIC Podcast on Soft Skills in Medical Education, for which Ms. Katerina Boulougari (PhD candidate at the Department of Medicine of the University of Crete and Soft Skills Educator) and Dimitris Karamitsos (5th year student of the Ioannina Medical School) collaborated.
The Podcast on Soft Skills in Medical Education is here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Bw5BWGMx8gOxLLZx9aYBH?si=216f85bf6b264e7a
Placement Programma APOVASIS (elective)
The Scientific Society of Medical Students of Greece (E.E.F.I.E.) Ioannina Branch, every year, within the framework of E.E.F.I.E. activities, organizes a “Medical Landing” on the islands, for which an evaluation process of applications and distribution of candidates per ten-day period and health unit is provided.Medical Students' Theater Group
With the start of the new academic year, in October 2024, the Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, will establish a Medical Students’ Theater Group (in greek: Θ.Ο.Φ.Ι.).
The aim is to achieve the improvement of professional skills and better clinical education through the dramatization of theatrical works but, mainly, through the representation of medical cases. The students, by impersonating patients, give their fellow students the opportunity to practice in fictitious medical cases, cultivating their skills and knowledge.