Table 2: Assessments of medical ethics and the history of medicine in the traditional curriculum and the model course before and after 5th and the 5th/6th semester respectively regarding the importance of education for the individual (Ethics - teaching, History - teaching), the importance of the subject for the physician (Ethics - Teaching, History - Teaching), the importance of the subject for the physician (Ethics - Physician, History - Physician), teachability and learnability (Ethics Teachability, History Teachability) and testability (Ethics Testability, History Testability), Likert scale from -2 (strongly disagree) to +2 (strongly agree) (mean). BO_R5/6_pre: Bochum traditional curriculum before 5th semester, BO_R5/6_post: Bochum traditional curriculum after the 6th semester, BO_M5_pre: Bochum model course before 5th semester, BO_M5_post: Bochum model course after 5th semester [n.s. not significant; t-test].