Personal Development and Professional socialization

Personal Development and Professional Socialisation in Healthcare

OVERVIEW

The aim of Semmelweis University is to train students who not only have a high level of professional knowledge, but also the ability to cope with the emotional stresses and challenges of the medical profession, to deal with the emotional burdens of medicine (failure, tragedy, death, dying, difficult patients) while remaining empathetic and avoiding burnout.

How does the course help?

1. You can learn techniques for coping with stress during the academic years and after graduation.
2. You can learn techniques how to remain effective and balanced even when are overwhelmed by negative emotions.
3. It helps you to develop a more effective career plan and find opportunities for further skills development across the six years of the curriculum.

Signature requirements:

Active participation in 75% of the classes. Submission of a feedback essay (one page minimum, two pages maximum) elaborating which were the most useful techniques for you among those that you have learnt, based on the following questions:

1. How did the learning techniques you chose for your type of learning work for you during the semester?
2. Which stress management techniques helped you the most?
3. Did situations arise in which stabilising techniques could be tried?
4. How do you plan to use and develop the skills in your current career plan over the next six years?

Personal Development and Professional Socialization in Health Care

  Year 2024/25    

Credit value: 2  

Course code:  AOVMAG1145_1A

Course director:  Prof. Dr. Purebl György, director, SU Institute of Behavioural Sciences

Course coordinators:  Adrienne Stauder MD, PhD 

Contact Secretaries: Csilla Motyovszki and Réka Polgárdi

Secretariat: NET Building, 20th floor, Room 2015;
E-mail: titkarsag.magatartastudomany[at]semmelweis.hu;

Tel:  210-2930 /extension 56126 or 56114

With any request concerning the course, please first contact the course secretariat.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

Development of the skills of first year students in order to improve their self-awareness, their emotion regulation and their mental health promotion abilities. The student will be able to consciously choose the appropriate psychological tools to achieve their desired learning goals in accordance with their own needs and to manage patients in emotionally demanding situations.  

COMPETENCIES ACQUIRED THROUGH THE COMPLETION OF THE COURSE:

The student will be able to

• Improve their learning performance by using effective learning methods
• Deal more effectively with stressful situations encountered during theoretical and practical training
• Assess their own limitations more effectively
• Regulate their emotions more effectively
• Apply targeted stress management and emotional regulation techniques appropriate to the situation and to his/her needs through skills-based practical competence development, self-awareness, stress management and emotion regulation training.

REQUIREMENTS

There are no prerequisites for registration. Signature necessitates active participation in 75% of the practices.   

STRUCTURE OF THE COURSE, TOPICS OF THE MODULES: 

1. INTRODUCTION (180 minutes): getting to know each other, setting goals, professional identity, types of learning, planning.
2. LEARNING METHODS and STRESS MANAGEMENT (180 min): motivation, willpower, dealing with emotional distress: identifying thoughts and emotions
3. STRESS MANAGEMENT (180 min): Developing stress tolerance
4. STRESS MANAGEMENT (180 min): Stabilisation techniques for high emotional arousal

5 RESILIENCE (180 min) Advantages and disadvantages of competition, perfectionism, failure management

6 RESILIENCE (180 min): Peer support, lifestyle planning to prevent burnout

7. RESILIENCE (180 min) Long-term skills development planning for career choices

For the registered students online resources will be available in the moodle.