8th November 2023

That was real teamwork! Scientists and evaluators now have a collection of questionnaire scales to examine learning at the workplace for the first time:

Steinberg, E., Marsch, S., Yanagida, T., Dörrenbächer-Ulrich, L., Pfeiffer, C., Bührle, P., Schwarz, L., Auer, U., Kleinsorgen, C., & Perels, F. (2023). Development and validation of the Workplace Learning Inventory in Health Sciences Education: a multimethod study. Advances in Health Sciences Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-023-10295-y 

Thanks to all those involved!

7th June 2023

The next opportunity to discuss the study results. Thank you to the University Teachers Association, for inviting us to the ULV breakfast!

30th May 2023

We have once again prepared the results of the diary study for faculty. Today we present them at the Impulse Breakfast and discuss recommendations for teaching.

17th May 2023

We're excited: Stephan Marsch is going to the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Education to present his paper, "Stress and stress management during the transition from preclinical to clinical learning in veterinary students."

9th March 2023

What a joy to now see the many faces gathered after the data collection has ended! Together with the Clinical Rotation I students, we celebrated the completion of data collection. A big thank you again to all students and faculty!

6th March 2023

Individual feedback to students have been sent out. In it you will find: Individual progression over time and tips and tricks for moving forward.

1st March 2023

We would like to thank the teachers with their own feedback per organizational unit. The reports have been sent to the respective leadership. The project team is always available for questions!

30th January 2023

The biggest challenge of our project has been mastered: data collection on our diary study is complete. Nearly 200 students reflected on their learning and practice every day for 75 days. We would like to thank all participants!

5th December 2022

The first groups are completing Clinical Rotation I this week. While some students are now reflecting on their learning and practicing for the last days, the project team is already busy creating the concept for the individual feedback. At the beginning of February, each person will then receive their own learning profile based on their own assessments, supplemented by tips and tricks for their personal development.

2nd November 2022

There is a change in the team: at the end of October, Christopher Pfeiffer and Petra Bührle end their activities in the project. Both want to fully devote themselves to their studies again. Thank you very much for your commitment! At the same time, we welcome Ebun Smith; she is currently studying psychology at the University of Vienna and will accompany the diary study. We are happy to have you!

5th October 2022

The final groups started Clinical Rotation I this week. We wish you all the best!

We have now also taken a look: the vast majority of students have given their consent for us to use the reflection data for research. Many thanks to you! By doing so, you are enabling innovative approaches to analysis in the context of research on learning in medical education.

29th August 2022

The next groups will begin Clinical Rotation I. We wish you a good start!

Students in the first block have already spent five weeks reflecting on their learning and practicing. Thank you for the feedback on ambiguities and problems. We have adjusted the information and process.

25th July 2022

This week it's time: the diary study within the Clinical Rotation I starts. During the winter semester, the participating students will rotate through the veterinary clinics of the vetmeduni and use the learning diary we developed for self-reflection. We are looking forward to this exciting semester.

18th May 2022

Let's get started: Over the next few weeks, we will be informing students and faculty about the importance of self-reflection and the associated diary study in Clinical Rotation I.

22nd April 2022

Virtual Reality, Serious Gaming, Mobile Digital Eduation… teaching continues to evolve. Today, at the European Conference on Veterinary and Medical Education, we took a look at the topic of "Self-regulated learning in technology enhanced medical education".

22nd February 2022

We proudly present: The questionnaire for learning in the practical clinical setting!

It covers the areas of cognition (cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies), motivation, emotion, and perception of the learning environment, as well as the monitoring and regulation of these four areas. We ask for several aspects. There is a version with four to five items per aspect and a single-item version. We are currently working on the publication.
We spent a year researching, conducting interviews, developing and testing items together with scientists and students, and finally tested a first version of the questionnaire. The efforts were worth it! We would like to thank the students, teachers and scientists for their support!

10th January 2022

The first year of our research project is behind us. We have analyzed theoretical models and existing questionnaires, conducted interviews, and developed and extensively tested a new questionnaire for self-regulated learning in the clinical-practical setting. Next year, we will devote ourselves to the question of how students' self-regulated learning changes in the practical clinical setting.

13th December 2021

Data collection is currently underway. Students use questionnaires to reflect on their own learning and receive an individual profile with tips and tricks for further development. We would like to thank the many students who provide us with data for research purposes.

4th October 2021

We are in the midst of developing a diary on the topic of "Self-regulated Learning of Students in the Practical Clinical Setting." We have formulated the items based on the results of the previous interviews. Now they are in expert review and we look forward to feedback from a variety of perspectives. Thank you very much to our experts!

17th September 2021

Yesterday we had the opportunity to present our FWF-project at the GMA annual conference. And we heard about many other exciting projects. What we are looking forward to: Getting to meet many of these smart people in person again!

13th September 2021

The manuscript for our first study has been submitted. We wait and see.

27th August 2021

The EARLI 2021 conference is over, and the roundtable session on our FWF-project was very inspiring! In addition, there was a lot of opportunity for networking and it was great to see how much research is now happening at the interface between Medical Education Research and Learning Psychology.

2nd August 2021

Study 1 is completed: From May to July, we conducted interviews and analyzed them systematically. Now it's time to write, write, write. The manuscript is well on its way!

2nd June 2021

Thank you to the interviewees! We learned a lot about learning strategies and emotions, about a conducive learning environment at the workplace and about motivation in learning in the clinical setting! The more than 20 hours of video material will now be transcribed and systematically structured using qualitative content analysis. 

12th April 2021

We are looking forward to the next step of Study 1, interviews with students, teachers and learning scientists to get an insight into self-regulated learning in the practical clinical setting of medical education from all three perspectives.

8th April 2021

First achievement: Our abstract has been accepted for a roundtable at EARLI 2021! The topic: "Developing a model for self-regulated learning in a higher education medical workplace environment".

24th March 2021

We are in the middle of Study 1 in which we aim at developing a model for self-regulated learning in the practical clinical setting of medical education, the SRLc model. We are doing literature research and discussing aspects of the model. A very interesting and exciting phase of our first study!

11th February 2021

Kick-off: The insterdisciplinary team starts discussing learning in the clinical practical setting of medical education - from a psychological and more theoretical perspective and from a medical education and more practical perspective. It was a very fruitful meeting!

1st January 2021

Let's get started: Three years, three studies!

28th September 2020

The decision board of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) accepts our proposal. What a great opportunity to investigate learning in the clinical-practical setting of medical education and to contribute to the scientific foundations of interventions.