Keywords: Clinical skills, Medical education, Digitalisation, Family medicine, General practice
Setting:
The Erasmus+ DOMINOS 2 project is a three-year interdisciplinary initiative (2025–2028) involving healthcare universities from four European countries: the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Université Paris Cité (France), Aarhus University (Denmark), and the University of Warsaw (Poland). Building on the DOMINOS 1 project, DOMINOS 2 aims to digitalize clinical skills training across various medical fields. The University of Ljubljana specifically focuses on digitalizing family medicine and general practice training.
Target group:
The primary target group is final-year medical students, though the project’s outcomes will also benefit other clinical training settings, including continuous professional development (CPD).
Description of the innovative practice or project:
Family medicine requires proficiency in diverse clinical skills, including procedural, communication, interpretative, and problem-solving abilities. Training and assessment of these skills are resource-intensive, creating challenges in medical education and CPD. DOMINOS 2 seeks to address these challenges by digitalizing clinical skills training through three approaches: synchronous online training, serious games and digital courses.
These digital tools will cover fundamental clinical skills as well as specialized topics in global health.
Evaluation:
The project will conduct large-scale synchronous training sessions involving students from partner universities, with serious games and digital courses tested on undergraduate students. Based on participation in DOMINOS 1, at least 500 students and 50 trainers are expected to engage in training activities. Additionally, professionals from organizations such as EURACT and EQuiP will be invited to test the content.
Next Steps:
By the project’s conclusion, DOMINOS 2 will have developed 200 synchronous training scenarios, 60 serious games and 6 digital courses on clinical skills related to global health. All materials will be evaluated and made freely available to ensure broad accessibility.
Lessons learned:
Clinical skills are essential for high-quality healthcare, particularly in family medicine. However, training opportunities are often limited by resource constraints. Digitalization presents a viable solution and DOMINOS 2 aims to develop innovative digital tools that can be adopted widely.
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