title: ["Meet the AIX-PERTs." Emergency medical care at the beginning of the medical reform curriculum in Aachen].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Extensive knowledge and skills in the basics of emergency medical care are of paramount importance for every physician and should therefore be an integral part of medical education.
  
  
  METHODS
  Regulations for medical licensure in Germany were revised by the administrative authorities in 2002 and as a consequence the Medical Faculty of the University of Aachen (Germany) decided to start the Medical Reform Curriculum Aachen. A multidisciplinary, problem-oriented and organ-related approach to medical education replaces the classical discrimination between basic and clinical sciences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  With AIX-PERT (AIX-la-Chapelle Program for Emergency medical care and Resuscitation Training), a program consisting of problem-based learning sessions was developed for introduction to the first year students. Defined teaching objectives in emergency medicine are now incorporated in undergraduate medical education.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The extremely positive evaluation of the new approach encouraged us to promote AIX-PERT further. In the future the effects of success of this approach will be assessed by longitudinal studies of skills and knowledge during the continuing curriculum.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Universitätsklinikum der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule, Aachen. sbeckers@ukaachen.de
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beckers
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bickenbach
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fries
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Classen-Linke
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Killersreiter
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Wainwright
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kuhlen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rossaint
mesh_terms: D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005858:Germany; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008007:Licensure, Medical / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D017145:Models, Educational; D018794:Problem-Based Learning