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Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA), des Arbeitskreises zur Weiterentwicklung der Lehre in der Zahnmedizin (AKWLZ) und der Chirurgischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lehre (CAL)

25.09. - 28.09.2019, Frankfurt am Main

German national competency-based catalogues of learning objectives for licensing examinations in psychotherapy – development process

Meeting Abstract

  • presenting/speaker Ulrich Scherer - Institut für medizinische und pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen (Fachbereiche Psychotherapie, Medizin, Pharmazie), Deutschland
  • Barbara Hinding - Institut für medizinische und pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen (Fachbereiche Psychotherapie, Medizin, Pharmazie), Deutschland
  • Ute Schlasius-Ratter - Institut für medizinische und pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen (Fachbereiche Psychotherapie, Medizin, Pharmazie), Deutschland
  • Birgitta Kütting - Institut für medizinische und pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen (Fachbereiche Psychotherapie, Medizin, Pharmazie), Deutschland
  • Hilde Spahn-Langguth - Institut für medizinische und pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen (Fachbereiche Psychotherapie, Medizin, Pharmazie), Deutschland
  • Jana Jünger - Institut für medizinische und pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen (Fachbereiche Psychotherapie, Medizin, Pharmazie), Deutschland

Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA), des Arbeitskreises zur Weiterentwicklung der Lehre in der Zahnmedizin (AKWLZ) und der Chirurgischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lehre (CAL). Frankfurt am Main, 25.-28.09.2019. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2019. DocV12-06

doi: 10.3205/19gma094, urn:nbn:de:0183-19gma0941

Published: September 20, 2019

© 2019 Scherer et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.


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Background: In Germany there exists a specific postgraduate education system in psychotherapy for graduates in psychology, pedagogics, and others. Nationwide more than 200 institutions offer this education and nearly 3,000 postgraduates enter it every year. The national licensing examinations at the end of the education in psychological psychotherapy and children- and adolescents-psychotherapy consist of an oral and a written part. The examinees have to demonstrate that they are well educated to take responsibility for patient safety and well-being. Therefor the catalogues of learning objectives for the examination should be competency-based. It is one of the tasks of the German National Institute for State Examinations in Medicine, Pharmacy and Psychotherapy (IMPP) to generate and continuously develop the catalogues for the examinations.

Summary of work: In order to base the catalogues of learning objectives on competencies the IMPP started a revision process in 2019. For this process an interprofessional perspective was established. Accordingly, other health professions, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, physiotherapy etc., are involved. Different task groups were composed for the different parts of the catalogues. A supervising interprofessional committee (catalogue commission, CC) coordinates the whole process.

Summary of results: One of the first goals of the CC was to establish the structure of the revised catalogues according to the concepts of competencies, professional roles (e.g. like the CanMEDS in medicine) and entrustable professional activities (EPAs). The content of some superordinate competencies like communication, interprofessional collaboration, science competency, health promotion was elaborated in interprofessional task groups with members of the different health professions.

Discussion and conclusions: The revision process of the German national competency-based catalogues of learning objectives in psychotherapy yielded first results: the overall structure of the catalogue and superordinate competencies. Significant work still needs to be done by the interprofessional composed task groups in the fields of competencies, roles and EPAs and will be followed by defining milestones of EPAs and establishing a blueprint for the national licensing examinations.

Take-home message: The development process of the national competency-based catalog of learning objectives in psychotherapy is a complex and comprehensive task that should be fulfilled via an interprofessional approach and interprofessional collaboration.