Konsensusstatement "Praktische Fertigkeiten im Medizinstudium" – ein Positionspapier des GMA-Ausschusses für praktische Fertigkeiten Zusammenfassung Einleitung: Angestoßen durch die Änderung der Approbationsordnung haben die berufspraktischen Kompetenzen in Deutschland eine höhere

Introduction: Encouraged by the change in licensing regulations the practical professional skills in Germany received a higher priority and Kai P. Schnabel Patrick D. Boldt are taught in medical schools therefore increasingly. This created the Georg Breuer need to standardize the process more and more. On the initiative of Andreas Fichtner the German skills labs the German Medical Association Committee for practical skills was established and developed a competency-based Gudrun Karsten catalogue of learning objectives, whose origin and structure is described here. Sandy Kujumdshiev 6 Michael Schmidts Goal of the catalogue is to define the practical skills in undergraduate medical education and to give the medical schools a rational planning basis for the necessary resources to teach them. Christoph Stosch Methods: Building on already existing German catalogues of learning objectives a multi-iterative process of condensation was performed, 1 University of Bern, Institute of Medical Education, which corresponds to the development of S1 guidelines, in order to get a broad professional and political support. Department of Education and theMedia, Bern, Switzerland Results: 289 different practical learning goals were identified and assigned to twelve different organ systems with three overlapping areas 2 Universität zu Köln, KIS, Köln, Deutschland to other fields of expertise and one area of across organ system skills. They were three depths and three different chronological dimensions 3 Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Anästhesiologische Klinik, Erlangen, Deutschland assigned and the objectives were matched with the Swiss and the Austrian equivalent. Discussion: This consensus statementmay provide the German faculties with a basis for planning the teaching of practical skills and is an important step towards a national standard of medical learning objectives. 4 Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Operative Intensivmedizin, Skills Lab, Looking ahead: The consensus statement may have a formative effect on the medical schools to teach practical skills and plan the resources accordingly. Studiendekanat, Halle, Deutschland 5 Christian-AlbrechtsUniversität zu Kiel,