Through innovative curriculum and faculty development, we promote active and in-depth forms of learning for our students that go far beyond the one-sided teaching of knowledge and skills. This includes the establishment of learning processes characterized by the exchange of ideas and open discussion formats in order to promote critical and creative thinking. It also includes dealing with realistic scenarios (simulation-based training) and teaching on and with patients in everyday clinical practice. The focus is on individual professional identity development, with the aim of supporting students holistically not only in acquiring professional skills on the path to becoming a doctor, but also in their personal maturation and their humanity.

In the spirit of this holistic promotion of skills (knowledge, skills AND attitude), we designed the Lettered Medical Education (LET ME) program to promote interdisciplinary teaching in collaboration with the humanities and cultural sciences in order to nurture the professional identity development of our students.

In clinical teaching we design the curriculum with the aim of ensuring a more practice-oriented education for our students.

Through teaching innovations, specific new teaching methods are developed, tested and implemented. A particular focus is placed on the new educational technologies in the area of digital teaching and simulation.

Furthermore, we see it as our core task to motivate and qualify lecturers to actively support student development processes and to train them in modern didactic methods through regular events organized by our team (qualification of lecturers).

Finally, in the context of current teaching developments at TUM, we work on the interprofessional transfer of these concepts and methods to other degree programs and their professional profiles.