UW/H represented at the DGAUM conference
How can teaching in environmental medicine be made even more targeted, sustainable and effective? A team from Witten/Herdecke University addressed this question at the 66th annual conference of the German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (DGAUM) in Munich - and presented an innovative approach.
On 20 March 2026, Dr Jörg Reißenweber and Dr Michaela Stratmann from the Department of Human Medicine presented their paper to the Teaching Working Group entitled: "Learning Objective-based Curriculum Analysis: Mapping the Progress Test Environmental Medicine to Planetary Health Competencies".
The focus is on a clear idea: teaching should be even more strongly oriented towards what students can actually do - and where there is still potential for development. This is precisely where the new approach comes in, by specifically identifying gaps in knowledge and skills in individual environmental medicine subject areas. These findings serve as a basis for the systematic further development of teaching in the cross-sectional area 06 "Clinical Environmental Medicine".
A particular focus here is on comparing learning progress with the competencies of planetary health. The basis is the additional catalog of the National Competence-Based Learning Objectives Catalog for Medicine (NKLM 2.0). The result is a modern, competence-oriented teaching concept that specifically addresses current challenges at the interface between health and the environment.
Prof. Dr. Frauke Mattner and private lecturer Dr. Andreas Wendel from the Department of Hygiene, Environmental Medicine and Infection Prevention at Witten/Herdecke University are also involved in the project.
With the approach presented, the UW/H is sending out a strong signal for the future-oriented and evidence-based further development of medical teaching.
Further information
Chair of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine