Impressive report on degree programmes at Health

Good quality, high demand and sustained positive development – these are some of the keywords from Health's degree programme report, which has just been published. The report takes stock of the quality of degree programmes at Health and builds on this year’s degree programme evaluations and status review meetings for 14 degree programmes in total.

Vice-dean for Education Lise Wogensen Bach is also very pleased with this year's report:

"It shows that here we offer high-quality degree programmes that lead to employment. But it also reflects our ability to develop and work on improving our degree programs. Two of the initiatives we can be proud of are our focus on digital health professionals and the new pedagogical-didactic approach, which launched last year."

In 2023, both Sport Science and Medicine underwent a degree programme evaluation, which also contributes to the background of the education report. At Sport Science, Director of Studies Kristian Raun Thomsen is pleased with the evaluation:

"It confirmed that we have a robust degree programme, and that we’re fundamentally aware of our strengths and weaknesses. We have a strong position with regard to students' academic and social well-being. Among other things, we're good at orientation week activities and bridge-building activities to help students establish contact with future employers.”

And even though the evaluation did not bring about significant surprises, there are still a few areas we can improve, says Director of Studies at Sport Science Kristian Raun Thomsen:

"We must and will continue our work on the didactic principles at Health. This will also help to strengthen academic relevance, coherence, and progression. Additionally, we’ll focus on how we can increase variation in teaching, so students are even more motivated to engage their own learning – and this will, of course, be spiced up with digitalisation and the use of artificial intelligence."

Among other things, the evaluation of the medical degree programme praised a development project, says Director of Studies Janne Lebeck:

"There was great support for our 'clinical reflection room', which aims to train students to share the challenges they encounter in their clinical work. This streamlines the transition from student to medical doctor in basic clinical training. We’ll start the pilot project in the spring of 2024, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing the results."

The evaluation also generated development ideas for the medical degree programme of the future, she says:

"In future, we’ll work to give the primary healthcare system a more prominent place in the degree programme, so that our students gain a better understanding of the role played by the primary sector, such as general practitioners, home care nurses and physiotherapists, in preventing and combating disease."

And even though both the programme evaluations and the report are largely highly positive, we should not rest on our laurels, says Lise Wogensen Bach:

"At Health, we have a major responsibility to educate our students for the working life and challenges they will face when they leave us. Therefore, we must also constantly keep up with developments – both in the digital reality and the healthcare reality in which they will be working. This is one of the reasons why it’s so important that they all gain an understanding of research, so that they can both acquire and critically access new knowledge throughout their career. Our students are on a lifelong educational journey, where they themselves are responsible for keeping up to date in their working lives. And we need to prepare them for that."