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      <Keyword language="en">assessment</Keyword>
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      <Keyword language="en">training</Keyword>
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      <Keyword language="de">Kompetenz</Keyword>
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    <DateReceived>20200725</DateReceived>
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    <Abstract language="de" linked="yes"><Pgraph><Mark1>Hintergrund: </Mark1>Fokussierte Anamneseerhebung, wissensbasiertes klinisches Argumentieren und ad&#228;quate Fallpr&#228;sentationen in &#220;bergabegespr&#228;chen stellen wichtige Kompetenzfacetten praktizierender &#196;rzt&#42;innen dar. Basierend auf einer validierten 360-Grad Beurteilung eines simulierten ersten Arbeitstags in der &#228;rztlichen Weiterbildung im Krankenhaus entwickelten wir ein Training f&#252;r Studierende im Praktischen Jahr (PJ) mit einer Sprechstunde, einer Patient&#42;innenbetreuungsphase und einem &#220;bergabegespr&#228;ch. Aufgrund der COVID-19 Pandemie wurde das Training in ein telemedizinisches Format umgewandelt und evaluiert.</Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Methoden:</Mark1> Im Jahr 2019 nahmen 103 PJ-Studierende an einem neu entwickelten, kompetenzbasierten Training teil, das seine Sprechstunde mit Simulationspatient&#42;innen, eine Patient&#42;innenbetreuungsphase mit einer elektronischen Patient&#42;innenakte und eine Patient&#42;innenfallpr&#228;sentation im &#220;bergabeformat beinhaltete. Aufgrund der Abstandsregeln gab es keine Genehmigung, das Training in dieser Weise durchzuf&#252;hren. Daher wandelten wir das Training in ein Telemedizinformat um. Im Mai 2020 nahmen 32 Studierende an dem Telemedizintraining teil. Eine 5-Punkte Likert Skala (1: trifft nicht zu, bis 5: trifft voll zu) wurde f&#252;r die Evaluationsitems eingesetzt. Die beiden Formate wurden mittels t-Test verglichen.</Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Ergebnisse: </Mark1>Die Studierenden waren unabh&#228;ngig vom Trainingsformat gleicherma&#223;en mit den Inhalten des Trainings zufrieden. Beiden Gruppen fanden die Patient&#42;innenf&#228;lle interessant (Pr&#228;senz: 4,68&#177;0,49; Telemedizin: 4,66&#177;0,48). In Bezug auf das Telemedizinformat waren die Teilnehmenden froh, dass eine M&#246;glichkeit gefunden wurde, die trotz der COVID-19 Pandemie &#252;ber das gesamte PJ hinweg durchgef&#252;hrt werden kann (4,94&#177;0,24) und sie erachteten das Format als sehr n&#252;tzliches Training f&#252;r ihre Abschlusspr&#252;fung (4,94&#177;0,24).</Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Schlussfolgerung: </Mark1>Das Telemedizinformat des kompetenzbasierten Trainings funktionierte genauso gut wie das Pr&#228;senzformat. Im Telemedizinformat kann das Training Studierenden unabh&#228;ngig von deren Standort angeboten werden. </Pgraph></Abstract>
    <Abstract language="en" linked="yes"><Pgraph><Mark1>Background:</Mark1> Focused history taking, knowledge-based clinical reasoning, and adequate case presentation during hand-offs represent important facets of competence of practicing physicians. Based on a validated 360-degree assessment simulating a first day of residency we developed a training for final-year medical students including patient consultation, patient management, and patient hand-off. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the training was changed to a telemedicine format and evaluated. </Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Methods: </Mark1>In 2019, 103 final-year students participated in a newly designed competence-based training including a consultation hour with simulated patients, a patient management phase with an electronic patient chart, and a case presentation in hand-off format. Due to social distancing regulations, the training was not allowed to take place in this way. Therefore, we changed the training to a telemedicine format. In May 2020, 32 students participated in the telemedicine training. A 5-point Likert scale (1: does not apply to 5: fully applies) was used for the evaluation items. The two formats were compared with t-tests.</Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Results: </Mark1>The students were similarly satisfied with the content of the training independently of its format. Both groups found the patient cases interesting (presence: 4.68 &#177; 0.49, telemedicine: 4.66 &#177; 0.48). With respect to the telemedicine format, participants were glad that an option had been found that could be offered throughout the final year (4.94 &#177; 0.24) despite the COVID-19 pandemic and they regarded it as a very useful training for their final examination (4.94 &#177; 0.24).</Pgraph><Pgraph><Mark1>Conclusion: </Mark1>The telemedicine format of the competence-based training worked as well as the presence format. In its telemedicine format, the training can be offered to students independently of their location. </Pgraph></Abstract>
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      <MainHeadline>Introduction</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Competence-based medical education is supposed to prepare medical students for clinical problem solving <TextLink reference="1"></TextLink>. Focused history taking, knowledge-based clinical reasoning, and adequate case presentation represent important facets of competence which are crucial for good patient management <TextLink reference="2"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="3"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="4"></TextLink>. To acquire these competences, communication trainings with simulated patients, seminars, and other training programs have been established in undergraduate medical education <TextLink reference="5"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="6"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="7"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="8"></TextLink>. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, undergraduate medical education encountered a cease of classroom courses and bedside teaching <TextLink reference="9"></TextLink>. In patient care, the number of telemedicine-based patient consultations increased enormously during the COVID-19 pandemic and will presumably continue at a high rate for much longer <TextLink reference="10"></TextLink>. For medical education, the use of telemedicine has been proposed for the core entrustable professional activities (EPA) defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), including virtual history taking, documentation of clinical encounters, and giving or receiving a patient hand-off <TextLink reference="11"></TextLink>. </Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Einleitung</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Eine kompetenzbasierte medizinische Ausbildung soll Medizinstudierende darauf vorbereiten, klinische Probleme zu l&#246;sen <TextLink reference="1"></TextLink>. Fokussierte Anamneseerhebung, wissensbasiertes klinisches Argumentieren und ad&#228;quate Fallpr&#228;sentationen in &#220;bergabegespr&#228;chen stellen wichtige Kompetenzfacetten dar, die f&#252;r eine gute Patient&#42;innenbetreuung entscheidend sind <TextLink reference="2"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="3"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="4"></TextLink>. Um diese Kompetenzen zu erwerben wurden Kommunikationstrainings mit Simulationspatient&#42;innen, Seminare und andere Trainingsprogramme im Medizinstudium etabliert <TextLink reference="5"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="6"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="7"></TextLink>, <TextLink reference="8"></TextLink>. Seit Beginn der COVID-19 Pandemie erfuhr die medizinische Ausbildung einen Stopp von Seminaren und Unterricht am Krankenbett <TextLink reference="9"></TextLink>. In der Patient&#42;innenversorgung stieg die Zahl an telemedizinbasierten Sprechstunden w&#228;hrend der COVID-19 Pandemie enorm an und wird sich vermutlich f&#252;r noch l&#228;ngere Zeit auf diesem Niveau halten <TextLink reference="10"></TextLink>. F&#252;r die medizinische Ausbildung wurde die Nutzung von Telemedizin f&#252;r die Kern Anvertraubaren Professionellen T&#228;tigkeiten (APT), die von der  Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) definiert wurden, vorgeschlagen, inclusive virtueller Anamneseerhebung, Dokumentation klinischer Begegnungen und dem Geben oder Empfangen einer Patient&#42;innen&#252;bergabe <TextLink reference="11"></TextLink>. </Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Project description</MainHeadline><Pgraph>In 2019, we developed a competence-based training for final-year medical students in the newly founded Center for Training and Assessment of Medical Competences at the University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf based on a validated 360-degree assessment simulating a first day of residency <TextLink reference="8"></TextLink>. This training included a consultation hour with four simulated patients per participant, patient documentation and management with a newly developed electronic patient chart, and one case presentation per participant in hand-off format. The patients designed for this training are shown in table 1 <ImgLink imgNo="1" imgType="table"/>. All patient cases were adapted from real patients who had been treated in the emergency department of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf. Results of the physical examination and a set of basic laboratory results were given to the participants after every simulated patient encounter. Before the case presentation, every participant received further results for one patient, e.g. ECG, X-rays or results of further blood tests. In October and December 2019 (presence), 103 medical students (63.1&#37; female) participated in this training. At the end of each training, an electronic evaluation was presented to the participants. All consultations and case presentations were videographed. The simulated patients filled out a questionnaire (ComCare) including aspects of communication and interpersonal skills after every consultation <TextLink reference="12"></TextLink>. Further trainings were planned for 2020. However, due to the social distancing regulations taking effect in March 2020, these trainings could not take place in their established way. Thanks to the funding of ten tablet computers we were able to offer the training via telemedicine. Via Zoom, virtual rooms were established for the consultations with the simulated patients, for working with the electronic patient charts, and for the case presentations. In May 2020 (telemedicine), 32 medical students (56.3&#37; female), participated in the telemedicine-based training. This training was also electronically evaluated by the participants. All participants answered questions regarding the content of the training. Participants of the telemedicine-based training additionally answered questions with respect to the format of the training. All items were assessed on a 5-point Likert scale (1: does not apply, 2: somewhat applies, 3: partly applies, 4: rather applies, 5: fully applies). Comparisons with respect to the training content were calculated with t-tests for independent samples. Significance levels were set to p&#60;0.05.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Projektbeschreibung</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Im Jahr 2019 haben wir im neu gegr&#252;ndeten Centrum zur Entwicklung und Pr&#252;fung &#228;rztlicher Kompetenzen am Universit&#228;tsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf ein kompetenzbasiertes Training f&#252;r PJ-Studierende entwickelt, das auf einem validierten 360-Grad Assessment basiert, das einen ersten Tag in der &#228;rztlichen Weiterbildung simuliert <TextLink reference="8"></TextLink>. Dieses Training umfasste eine Sprechstunde mit vier Schauspielpatient&#42;innen pro Teilnehmer&#42;in, die Patient&#42;innendokumentation und -betreuung mittels einer neu entwickelten elektronischen Patient&#42;innenakte und eine Fallpr&#228;sentation pro Teilnehmer&#42;in im &#220;bergabeformat. Die f&#252;r dieses Training entwickelten Patient&#42;innen sind in Tabelle 1 <ImgLink imgNo="1" imgType="table"/> dargestellt. Alle Patient&#42;innenf&#228;lle wurden nach dem Vorbild realer Patient&#42;innen, die in der Notaufnahme des Universit&#228;tsklinikums Hamburg-Eppendorf behandelt worden waren, gestaltet. Die Befunde der k&#246;rperlichen Untersuchung und eine Zusammenstellung basaler Laborergebnisse wurden den Teilnehmer&#42;innen nach jeder simulierten Patient&#42;innenbegegnung zur Verf&#252;gung gestellt. Vor der Fallpr&#228;sentation erhielten alle Teilnehmer&#42;innen weitere Befunde f&#252;r einen Patienten oder eine Patientin, z.B: EKG, R&#246;ntenbilder oder Ergebnisse weiterer Blutuntersuchungen. Im Oktober und Dezember 2019 (Pr&#228;senz) nahmen 103 Medizinstudierende (63,1&#37; weiblich) an diesem Training teil. Am Ende jedes Trainings nahmen die Teilnehmer&#42;innen an einer elektronischen Evaluation teil. Die Schauspielpatient&#42;innen f&#252;llten nach jeder Konsultation einen Fragebogen (ComCare) aus, der Aspekte der Kommunikation und der zwischenmenschlichen F&#228;higkeiten enthielt <TextLink reference="12"></TextLink>. Weitere Trainings waren f&#252;r 2020 geplant. Aufgrund der im M&#228;rz 2020 in Kraft tretenden Vorschriften zur sozialen Distanzierung konnten die Trainings jedoch nicht in der bew&#228;hrten Weise stattfinden. Dank der Finanzierung von zehn Tablet-Computern konnten wir die Trainings &#252;ber Telemedizin anbieten. Via Zoom wurden virtuelle R&#228;ume f&#252;r die Konsultationen mit den Schauspielpatient&#42;innen, f&#252;r die Arbeit mit den elektronischen Patient&#42;innenakten und f&#252;r die Fallpr&#228;sentationen eingerichtet. Im Mai 2020 (Telemedizin) nahmen 32 Medizinstudierende (56,3&#37; weiblich) am Telemedizintraining teil. Auch dieses Training  wurde von den Teilnehmer&#42;innen elektronisch evaluiert. Alle Teilnehmer&#42;innen beantworteten Fragen zum Inhalt des Trainings. Die Teilnehmer&#42;innen des Telemedizintrainings beantworteten zus&#228;tzlich Fragen zum Format des Trainings. Alle Items wurden auf einer 5-stufigen Likert-Skala bewertet (1: trifft nicht zu, 2: trifft etwas zu, 3: trifft teilweise zu, 4: trifft eher zu, 5: trifft voll zu). Vergleiche mit Bezug zu den Trainingsinhalten wurden mit t-Tests f&#252;r unabh&#228;ngige Stichproben berechnet. Die Signifikanzniveaus wurden auf p&#60;0,05 festgelegt.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Results</MainHeadline><Pgraph>All 135 participants completed the training and no critical problems occurred in either format. Small technical problems during the telemedicine format were easily solved. All participants seemed to be very satisfied with the content of the training (see table 2 <ImgLink imgNo="2" imgType="table"/>). No significant differences were found between the presence and the telemedicine group. Both groups regarded the patient cases as interesting (presence: 4.68&#177;0.49, telemedicine: 4.66&#177;0.48) and hardly knew the solution to the patient cases immediately (presence: 2.75&#177;0.88, telemedicine: 2.75&#177;0.76). With respect to the telemedicine format of the training (see table 3 <ImgLink imgNo="3" imgType="table"/>), participants found it very useful (4.94&#177;0.24) as a training for their final examination and felt that trainings like this should be offered throughout the final year (4.94&#177;0.24). Participants felt that the telemedicine training was useful to exercise taking over responsibility as a physician (4.75&#177;0.50) and that it should be offered in undergraduate medical education starting in year 4 (4.56&#177;0.61).</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Ergebnisse</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Alle 135 Teilnehmenden schlossen das Training ab und in beiden Formaten traten keine kritischen Probleme auf. Kleine technische Probleme w&#228;hrend des Telemedizinformats konnten leicht gel&#246;st werden. Alle Teilnehmenden schienen mit dem Inhalt des Trainings sehr zufrieden zu sein (siehe Tabelle 2 <ImgLink imgNo="2" imgType="table"/>). Es wurden keine signifikanten Unterschiede zwischen der Pr&#228;senz- und der Telemedizingruppe festgestellt. Beide Gruppen fanden die Patient&#42;innenf&#228;lle interessant (Pr&#228;senz: 4,68&#177;0,49; Telemedizin: 4,66&#177;0,48) und erkannten die L&#246;sung der Patient&#42;innenf&#228;lle meist nicht sofort (Pr&#228;senz: 2,75&#177;0,88; Telemedizin: 2,75&#177;0,76). Was das Telemedizinformat betrifft (siehe Tabelle 3 <ImgLink imgNo="3" imgType="table"/>), so fanden die Teilnehmenden es als Training f&#252;r ihre Abschlusspr&#252;fung sehr n&#252;tzlich (4,94&#177;0,24) und meinten, dass ein solches Training w&#228;hrend des gesamten PJ angeboten werden sollte (4,94&#177;0,24). Die Teilnehmenden waren der Meinung, dass das Telemedizintraining sehr n&#252;tzlich sei um die &#220;bernahme von &#228;rztlicher Verantwortung zu &#252;ben (4,75&#177;0,50) und dass es im Medizinstudium ab dem 4. Studienjahr angeboten werden sollte (4,56&#177;0,61).</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Discussion and conclusion</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Changing a training that simulates a first day of residency from a presence to a telemedicine format led to no significant changes in the high evaluation of the usefulness of the training content. Participants wished to be offered more possibilities for training exercises in this format which might &#8211; with its design and content &#8211; help to improve the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate medical training <TextLink reference="13"></TextLink>. Since students reported &#8211; independently of the training format &#8211; that they did not know the solutions to the patient cases immediately, our training seems to be a useful teaching tool to improve students&#8217; diagnostic decision making <TextLink reference="14"></TextLink>. The context of the patient cases, which is relevant for clinical reasoning <TextLink reference="15"></TextLink>, was designed in such a way, that both ways of clinical reasoning, pattern recognition and analytical thinking <TextLink reference="16"></TextLink>, had to be applied in patient workup. This seems to have worked successfully. In its telemedicine format, our competence-based training can be easily offered to final-year medical students independently of their current study location.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Diskussion und Schlussfolgerung</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Die Umstellung eines Trainings, das einen ersten Arbeitstag in der &#228;rztlichen Weiterbildung im Krankenhaus simuliert, von einem Pr&#228;senz- auf ein Telemedizinformat f&#252;hrte zu keinen signifikanten Ver&#228;nderungen in der hohen Bewertung des Nutzens der Trainingsinhalte. Die Teilnehmenden w&#252;nschten sich mehr Angebote von Trainingsm&#246;glichkeiten in diesem Format, das &#8211; mit Gestaltung und Inhalt &#8211; dazu beitragen k&#246;nnte, den &#220;bergang vom Medizinstudium zur &#228;rztlichen Weiterbildung zu verbessern <TextLink reference="13"></TextLink>. Da die Studierenden &#8211; unabh&#228;ngig vom Trainingsformat &#8211; berichteten, dass sie die L&#246;sungen f&#252;r die Patient&#42;innenf&#228;lle nicht sofort kannten, scheint unser Training ein n&#252;tzliches Lehrmittel zu sein, um die diagnostische Entscheidungsfindung der Studierenden zu verbessern <TextLink reference="14"></TextLink>. Der f&#252;r das klinische Argumentieren relevante Kontext der Patient&#42;innenf&#228;lle <TextLink reference="15"></TextLink> wurde so gestaltet, dass beide f&#252;r das klinische Argumentieren wichtigen Wege, Mustererkennung und analytisches Denken <TextLink reference="16"></TextLink>, in der Bearbeitung der Patient&#42;innenf&#228;lle angewandt werden mussten. Dies scheint erfolgreich funktioniert zu haben. In seinem Telemedizinformat kann unser kompetenzbasiertes Training Medizinstudierenden im PJ unabh&#228;ngig von ihrem derzeitigen Studienort problemlos angeboten werden.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Funding</MainHeadline><Pgraph>This work was supported by the Joachim Herz Stiftung. The Claussen Simon Siftung provided additional support for five tablet computers.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>F&#246;rderung</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Dieses Projekt wurde durch die Joachim Herz Stiftung unterst&#252;tzt. Die Claussen Simon Stiftung unterst&#252;tzte das Projekt zus&#228;tzlich mit f&#252;nf Tablet Computern.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Ethical approval</MainHeadline><Pgraph>The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the Ethics Committee of the Chamber of Physicians (Ethik-Kommission, &#196;rztekammer Hamburg), Hamburg, approved this study and confirmed its innocuousness. The study included written consent by the participants and participation was voluntary and anonymized (reference number: PV3649).</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Ethik</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Diese Studie wurde in &#220;bereinstimmung mit der Erkl&#228;rung von Helsinki durchgef&#252;hrt und die Ethik-Kommission der &#196;rztekammer Hamburg genehmigte die Studie und best&#228;tigte ihre Unbedenklichkeit. Die Studie schloss ein schriftliches Einverst&#228;ndnis der Teilnehmenden ein und die Teilnahme war freiwillig und anonymisiert (Referenz-Nummer: PV3649). </Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Acknowledgements</MainHeadline><Pgraph>We thank all participating medical students and the actors and actresses Christian Bruhn, Christiane Filla, Franziska Herrmann, Ulrike Johannson, Thomas Klees, Thorsten Neelmeyer, Frank Thom&#233;, and Claudia Wiedemer who helped us to make this training work despite the COVID-19 pandemic.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Danksagung</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Wir danken allen Medizinstudierenden, die am Training teilgenommen haben, und den Schauspielern und Schauspielerinnen Christian Bruhn, Christiane Filla, Franziska Herrmann, Ulrike Johannson, Thomas Klees, Thorsten Neelmeyer, Frank Thom&#233; und Claudia Wiedemer, die uns dabei unterst&#252;tzt haben, das Training trotz der COVID-19 Pandemie zu realisieren.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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      <MainHeadline>Competing interests</MainHeadline><Pgraph>The authors declare that they have no competing interests. </Pgraph></TextBlock>
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