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Joining to promote young talents: an experience report from the first German Summer School for Obstetrics and Gynaecology for medical students

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Abstract

Purpose

The Commission for the Promotion of Young Talents of the German Society for Gynaecology and Obstetrics e.V. was founded in 2017, aiming to inspire medical students for a career in obstetrics and gynaecology by developing a concept for the first German Summer School in this field. Here, medical students shall be introduced to this multifaceted specialty and have their interest in it kindled.

Methods

This article reports about the experiences of the first gynaecological summer school which was held at the University Hospital Heidelberg for 2 days in August 2018. The programme included keynote presentations, discussion roundtables and skills-lab training. To assess students’ related satisfaction, and to improve future projects, an evaluation survey with seven items and two open-comment questions was given to each participant after the event.

Results

Mostly female students [n (♀) = 37, 93%; n (♂) = 3, 7%] from 15 different medical universities from all over Germany participated. Available places were booked within 1 week. Participants were in their clinical part of their studies between the 5th and 16th semester. The average rating of the event was excellent with 1.1 points (1 = best–5 = worst), while the selection of topics scored lowest marks with an average rating of 1.7 points.

Conclusion

Due to the great success, the high demand and the student’s positive evaluation, annual summer schools in obstetrics and gynaecology are planned. Because most of the participating students have shown a high interest and have appropriate education in the domain, the information content of keynote presentations could be increased above basic level in future projects.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all professors and lecturers for their volunteering and invaluable support and Karl Storz SE & Co. KG who provided additional laparoscopy and hysteroscopy trainers. In addition, we thank J. Windisch from the if-kongress and I. Fragale from the DGGG e.V., who supported the organisational processes.

Funding

The Summer School was financially supported by the German Society for Gynaecology and Obstetrics e.V. (DGGG).

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  1. Julian Puppe and Sabine Keß contributed equally.

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  1. Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 440, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Nathalie Rippinger, Thomas M. Deutsch, Markus Wallwiener, Christof Sohn & Sabine Keß

  2. Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany

    Vera Hepp & Tanja Fehm

  3. Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Martin Weiss

  4. Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, St. Marien Hospital Amberg, Amberg, Germany

    Anton J. Scharl

  5. Department of Gynaecologic Endocrinology and Fertility Disorders, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Thomas Strowitzki

  6. Department of Gynaecologic Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Bettina Toth

  7. Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinic St. Hedwig, Hospital of the Merciful Brothers, University Medical Centre Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Birgit Seelbach-Göbel

  8. Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Julian Puppe

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Contributions

NR project development, manuscript writing, review and editing, supervision—lead. TMD review and editing. MW review and editing. VH review and editing. MW review and editing. AJS supervision, review and editing. TS review and editing. TF project development, supervision, review and editing. BT project development, supervision, review and editing. BS-G project development, supervision, review and editing. CS review and editing. JP project development, manuscript writing, review and editing, supervision—lead. SK project development, manuscript writing, review and editing, supervision—lead.

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Correspondence to Nathalie Rippinger.

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This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. This submission is a report about the experiences shared during the first summer school in obstetrics and gynaecology in 2018.

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Course participation was not linked with study participation. The study was deemed to be without risk, only anonymous evaluation forms were distributed to all the course participators for the collection of data; consequently, the Ethics Committee of Heidelberg University Hospital did not request approval for consent for this designated analysis. Course participation, and completing the evaluation forms were all voluntary.

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Rippinger, N., Deutsch, T.M., Wallwiener, M. et al. Joining to promote young talents: an experience report from the first German Summer School for Obstetrics and Gynaecology for medical students. Arch Gynecol Obstet 300, 799–803 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-019-05265-y

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