Digital teaching with SP was rated "very good" by 63% of the students and "good" by 37% as an overall mark for the course. The digital implementation is well practicable, the retention and accessibility of all learning goals is rated as given. Conclusion Digital teaching with SP can be well realized with appropriate preparation. Specific aspects of digital implementation (e.g.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/ly333531.html  role and data protection) must be taken into account. The differentiated evaluation of the surveys will bring further results and deductive questions.Objective In the spring of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the question arose at Hannover Medical School as to how simulated patients (SP) could still be utilized in the communication course that is part of the module "Diagnostic methods" taught in the second year of the model medical curriculum known as HannibaL. Methods This short report summarizes the process of implementing the utilization of SP in analog classroom teaching and describes the relevant results on the concluding Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in comparison to the previous year. Results Overall, the analog SP deployments were practicable under local conditions and in compliance with precautionary measures to curb the risk of infection, whereby the OSCE scores did not deviate significantly from those in the prior year. Conclusion During the COVID-19 pandemic and perhaps other epidemics as well, it will continue to be important in the future to make locally adapted, purpose-oriented, and preventively effective decisions regarding university didactics in undergraduate studies.The Corona virus pandemic rendered most live education this spring term impossible. Other formats and new ideas were needed to offer students the opportunity to learn unchanged learning content and outcomes. To replace our module on ethics and ethical decision making in emergency medicine with simulation patients we developed an e-learning module consisting of a case, trigger questions and literature for self-study. This was followed by a Microsoft Teams seminar in which the students discussed their questions in subgroups on the basis of their reading and developed a team product they then presented to the other team. Students valued this module as enabling a safe space for their beliefs and views. A vast majority deemed the topics as relevant, two thirds would retake the seminar. Despite a productive online discourse, this format should not be used as sole module under normal conditions since it lacks the (simulation) patient interaction but it can prove to be a valuable addendum to live teaching.Objective Against the background of the current pandemic crisis, this case report presents the experiences made from interprofessional teamwork with group members from different medical qualification levels. Our objectives were to identify areas of shared knowledge regarding efficient collaboration; to improve effective teamwork based on mutual respect; to develop innovative teaching methods tailored to the needs of COVID-19 interprofessional response teams. Methods Field notes from numerous team discussions and improvised internal training sessions were compiled into a checklist. Each author edited and revised the checklist and a consensus has been reached after an in-person discussion. Feedback from an academic expert in emergency services has been incorporated into the final version of the checklist. Results Three main topics were identified the need for quality-assured professional training, the clarification of role expectations including assigned responsibilities, opportunities to contribute and participate in the team building process, and the development of area-related ethical competence in the sense of shared moral public health literacy. Hence, we developed the following ad - hoc teaching methods use of online teaching videos, practical exercises on intubation models and the collective development of an annotated, detailed checklist for all relevant work processes of the mobile corona unit based on everyday debriefings. Summary The need for interprofessional team building in the context of the current health crisis provides a beneficial learning environment for all participants. We propose to conceptually refine this approach into a cross-professional, innovative method of teaching.Background In the innovative seminar "Peer-support and Patient Competence", which was conceived as a face to face course, we teach various concepts of patient competence and invite patients to report about their illness experience and peer-group activities. Method Implementation of a face to face course into a virtual format via video conference. Result Despite concerns regarding the sensitive topic and technical challenges, the conversion of the seminar with interactive character, which was originally designed in a face-to-face format, into a virtual one was successful. Both lecturers and participants experienced the seminar as satisfactory. Conclusion In times of Covid-19, this virtual course experience can encourage colleagues to restructure their face to face seminars into innovative and virtual teaching formats.Background Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students have been confronted with an online semester. Because of the special requirements, online teaching can trigger negative emotions, which can have an unfavourable impact on the learning process and which therefore need to be regulated. This study investigates academic-associated emotions and the regulation of those emotions both before (December 2019) and during (June 2020) the online semester for first-year medical students. Methods Questionnaire data (t1=Dec 2019; t2=Jun 2020) regarding academic-associated emotions and emotion regulation, taken from a longitudinal research project (Experienced Learning Medicine Augsburg; ELMA) at the University of Augsburg, was used. At t2, the students were also asked, as future physicians, to name their three most significant emotions regarding their studies, taking into account the COVID-19 situation. Results Longitudinal analyses (Wilcoxon tests) showed few changes in academic-associated emotions. The emotions happy (r=.32) and proud (r=.