Module GW4740-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

every summer semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, optional subject, Healthcare Development and Management
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, optional subject, Research in Therapeutic Sciences
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, optional subject, Health Services Research
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, optional subject, Health Services Research
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, optional subject, Healthcare Development and Management
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, optional subject, Interprofessional Care and Research in Pain

Classes and lectures:

• Evidence-based Patient Information and Shared Decision-Making (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Theories and Models of Person-Centered Care (various populations) (lecture, 1 SWS)
• Theories and Models of Person-Centered Care (various populations) (seminar, 1 SWS)

Workload:

• 105 hours private studies and exercises
• 45 hours in-classroom exercises

Contents of teaching:

• Theories and development of Frameworks for Person-Centred Healthcare: concepts of the person , underpinning ethical principles, Relationship-centred Care, the Person-centred Practice Framework by McCormack et al.
• Core elements and models of Person-centered care in comparison: context, practice and benefits
• Core elements and models of Person-centered care in comparison:Transferability to the German healthcare System and to other countries
• Core elements and models of Person-centered care in comparison:economical, ethical and social implications
• Models and methods of evidence-based patient information and shared decision making.
• Transfer the theories and methods of evidence-based patient information and shared decision making to various health care audiences.
• Analysis and reflection of the potentials, challenges and care development needs related to evidence-based patient information and shared decision making.

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge and Understanding: Students will be able to define and interpret characteristics, limitations, terminologies, and doctrines of theories and models of person-centered care.
• Knowledge and Understanding: Students will be able to develop independent ideas for person-centered care in an application or research-oriented manner.
• Knowledge and understanding: Students weigh the professional epistemologically based correctness of person-centered approaches to care, incorporating scientific and methodological considerations.
• Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to solve real-world and scientific problems using these trade-offs.
• Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to describe the models and methods of evidence-based patient information and shared decision making and explain and critically reflect on them with regard to their theoretical and empirical foundations.
• Use, application, and generation of knowledge: Students independently acquire new knowledge about person-centered health care.
• Use, application, and generation of knowledge: Students are able to analyze empirical findings on the quality of care of vulnerable target groups in a theory-based manner with regard to the need for further development of care and to derive and justify central changes at the meso or system level.
• Use, application, and generation of knowledge: Students will be able to develop and justify ideas for the theoretical and methodological advancement of person-centered care and evidence-based patient information.
• Communication and Collaboration: Students are willing and able to actively engage target health care groups in the analysis and design of health care services.
• Communication and Collaboration: students will be able to apply the methods of evidence-based patient information and shared decision making at all levels of health care (micro, meso, and macro).
• Scientific self-concept/professionalism:Students are aware of organizational and system-immanent determinants of quality of care and know possibilities and methods of co-design.

Grading through:

• B-Certificate (not graded)

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing
• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn

Literature:

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Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

16.09.2025