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Background <p>The changes in the German university system and the upcoming medical education reform represent major challenges for the future structure of curricular academic teaching in vascular surgery.</p> Objective <p>A&#xa0;systematic evaluation of current curricular vascular surgery education at German universities.</p> Material and methods <p>A&#xa0;systematic online search identified 44&#xa0;faculties of human medicine. An online questionnaire to assess multiple central dimensions of vascular surgery education was sent to the respective teaching coordinators.</p> Results <p>Of the 44 contacted universities 30 participated in the survey. The total number of vascular surgery teaching units (TU) per student is 9.36 on average. Aortic aneurysm is the most comprehensive teaching content with an average of 2.27 TU, followed by peripheral arterial occlusive disease (2.12 TU) and aortic dissection (1.52 TU). Only 53.6% of universities offer an independent vascular surgery lecture. Practical teaching content showed broad coverage of fundamental skills in vascular medicine. Among those responsible for teaching, 57.1% are familiar with the learning objectives of their own curriculum and 60.7% with those of the National Competence Based Learning Objective Catalogue Medicine (NKLM).</p> Conclusion <p>The scope of vascular surgery teaching content has increased in recent years; however, structural deficits and inconsistent organization of curricular vascular surgery education at German universities still persist. To generate adequate recruitment for our field a better transparency and unified orientation towards more competence-based learning objectives in medical education are necessary.</p>

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Curriculare universitäre Lehre in der Gefäßchirurgie

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年2月16日

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  • Eliane von Klitzing,
  • Yvonne Goßlau,
  • Livia Cotta,
  • Katrin Meisenbacher,
  • Alexander Hyhlik-Dürr,
  • Dittmar Böckler,
  • Alexander Meyer

摘要

Background

The changes in the German university system and the upcoming medical education reform represent major challenges for the future structure of curricular academic teaching in vascular surgery.

Objective

A systematic evaluation of current curricular vascular surgery education at German universities.

Material and methods

A systematic online search identified 44 faculties of human medicine. An online questionnaire to assess multiple central dimensions of vascular surgery education was sent to the respective teaching coordinators.

Results

Of the 44 contacted universities 30 participated in the survey. The total number of vascular surgery teaching units (TU) per student is 9.36 on average. Aortic aneurysm is the most comprehensive teaching content with an average of 2.27 TU, followed by peripheral arterial occlusive disease (2.12 TU) and aortic dissection (1.52 TU). Only 53.6% of universities offer an independent vascular surgery lecture. Practical teaching content showed broad coverage of fundamental skills in vascular medicine. Among those responsible for teaching, 57.1% are familiar with the learning objectives of their own curriculum and 60.7% with those of the National Competence Based Learning Objective Catalogue Medicine (NKLM).

Conclusion

The scope of vascular surgery teaching content has increased in recent years; however, structural deficits and inconsistent organization of curricular vascular surgery education at German universities still persist. To generate adequate recruitment for our field a better transparency and unified orientation towards more competence-based learning objectives in medical education are necessary.