Medical and nursing education, Bachelor of Arts

Admission Requirements

With your B.A. in Medical and Nursing Pedagogy, for example, you work in training and continuing education centres in healthcare, in vocational schools for health professions or also for health insurance companies.

In order to start a university course at Carl Remigius Medical School, applicants must prove the qualification required for the course of study (university entrance qualification). This is demonstrated by:

• general university entrance qualification (Abitur), which entitles you to study at all universities and in all federal states,
• or the subject-specific university entrance qualification, which entitles you to study in the corresponding field and in the federal states listed on the certificate,
• or the university of applied sciences entrance qualification, which entitles you to study at a university of applied sciences or in a tiered degree course at a university in the federal states listed on the certificate.

Alternatively, you can also be admitted without Abitur or university of applied sciences entrance qualification. The following is required for study without Abitur:

• You have passed a master craftsman’s examination.
• Or you have a qualification according to the Regulation on the Access of Professionally Qualified Persons to Universities in the State of Hesse, that is either a qualification from a vocational advanced training course of at least 400 hours, the completion of a technical school or a vocational or administrative academy, or a passed final examination in a state-recognised training occupation with a subsequent vocational activity of at least three years and the passing of a special university entrance examination.
• For foreign certificates, equivalence must be proven for admission.

Furthermore, you must provide evidence of a completed vocational training with a corresponding permit to practise in a regulated health profession with a grade of 3.0 or better.

In addition, you must pass the equivalence examination. With the help of the equivalence examination we check the equivalence of the content of your training to the corresponding modules in the degree programme through an individual recognition procedure. Advantage: your training will then be credited with 65 ECTS towards the standard period of study of 8 semesters, so that you can complete this Bachelor's degree in only 5 semesters!

Course Content and Specialisations

Do you enjoy teaching young people and passing on your expertise? Are you actively engaged in therapy, elderly care, emergency services, or in medical/pharmaceutical-technical assistant professions?

The degree programme is designed so that your professional expertise can be linked with scientific-methodological and pedagogical skills. The course closes the gap between subject-specific professional qualifications and the skills and abilities required for teaching.

Whether you are already working in a teaching profession or planning to do so in the future, the practical-oriented instruction prepares you for specific teaching and learning situations or shows you new possibilities for the methodical-didactic implementation of teaching.

If you have training in a regulated health profession, you have the opportunity to acquire the necessary subject-matter expertise in four pedagogical specialised semesters at the Carl Remigius Medical School.

The following modules are planned in the curriculum:

• 1st semester: Fundamentals of medical-related professions, related sciences – social science basics, fundamentals of general and specialised pathology
• 2nd semester: Medical basics, thinking and decision-making processes, related sciences – social science basics
• 3rd semester: Integrated patient care, analysing and designing care processes
• 4th semester: Scientific skills I – basics of scientific work, lesson planning and preparation, individualisation and differentiation in lessons, epidemiological developments and associated disease patterns, emergency medical disease patterns, mentorship
• 5th semester: Concepts and methods of action-oriented teaching, lesson analysis and teacher assessment, evidence-based practice and didactics, mentorship
• 6th semester: Performance measurement, assessment and exam anxiety, conversation, discussion, counselling, scientific skills II – basic research competences, curriculum development, mentorship
• 7th semester: Dealing with aggression, social power and conflicts, adult education/school law, teaching practice and reflection, current research in general and specialised pathology
• 8th semester: Final examination, mentorship

Special knowledge and skills acquired outside the Carl Remigius Medical School for semesters 1–3 are credited on the basis of an equivalence examination. These account for 65 of the total 180 credit points. This means that you will skip these semesters and enter directly into the 4th specialised semester.

 Tip: A detailed study schedule as well as an overview of the individual modules and specialisations can be found in the study brochure for the Bachelor of Medical and Nursing Education at the Carl Remigius Medical School. Request the brochure now …