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LMU Teaching Innovation Award for the "Corona course"

Christine Wild-Bode and her team are awarded this year's LMU Teaching Innovation Award for the development of the "Corona course". Their innovative e-learning course takes a highly topical subject and teaches it to medical students in a compact, clear and interdisciplinary way.
The team was able to recruit a large number of scientists from LMU, TUM and DZNE to provide a comprehensive overview of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the associated disease COVID-19 and the development of the pandemic. The particular added value for students in this course is that the direct relevance to medicine of subjects that might otherwise be perceived as dry becomes very clear. Interconnecting different subjects in a joint teaching format is also pioneering.

How did the project come about?

In March 2020, universities were caught off guard by the first lockdown and had to convert their teaching to virtual formats within a very short time. During this period, the Division of Metabolic Biochemistry of the Medical Faculty came up with the idea of the "Corona course". The aim was to inform the students about the virus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease COVID-19 from the perspective of different disciplines of preclinical and clinical medicine. This idea was enthusiastically received and implemented by the professors and lecturers, and within a very short time an online e-learning resource was created with contributions from biochemistry, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, immunology, and the clinic. Already in the summer semester of 2020, the Corona course was very popular among the medical students and was positively evaluated.
The positive feedback prompted the team to update and further develop the course for the summer semester of 2021. In the meantime, the course contains almost 40 contributions from various disciplines.

For a teaser video (in German), follow this link: link