title: [Comment on planned evaluation regulation of the Austrian Ministry of Science for university medical education].
abstract: Austria till now operates without any evaluation of medical university teaching. Now the science-ministry has circulated the draft of an edict which we comment as follows: 1) The new measures should be in a way that alone by their existence amelioration of quality appears. Also they should provide better communication between teachers and students (which has gone lost a great deal in the mass-university of today). 2) Examinations are the worst instruments for quality raising. We propose installation of a flying commission which talk things over with teachers and with students and thus forms a living bridge to raise communication. We think that things should rather not be done in anonymity, but more in steady communication between teacher and student. 3) There should be evaluation of evaluation and the named commission should ensure a steady dynamic evolution of it. 4) Main thoughts are that university-teachers are evaluated as well for their quality of teaching as for their endeavour to optimate it, whereas now only "papers" and scientific output is measured. The student should learn own responsibility, overall knowledge and better communication. Only thus we shall educate new doctors that approach a humanistic ideal instead of being "medicine-apparatschiks".
authors.affiliation: Osterreichischen Kuratorium für ärztliche Ausbildung. Fort- und Weiterbildung, im Rahmen des Osterreichischen Primarärzteverbandes.
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Barolin
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*