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The Department of General Medicine receives the National Pedagogy Award 2022

The CNGE National Pedagogy Prize 2022 was awarded to Dr Romain LUTAUD of the Faculty of Medical and Paramedical Sciences, for an experimental training course on critical thinking, dedicated to general medicine residents, in the context of the knowledge crisis and the COVID-19 health crisis.

The National Pedagogy Prize was awarded to Dr Romain Lutaud, general medicine Head of Unit at the University Department of General Medicine (DUMG) of Aix-Marseille University, and health anthropologist at the UMR 7268 ADES, during the last congress of the National College of General Practitioners (CNGE), held from 14 to 16 December 2022.

The CNGE National Pedagogy Prize 2022 was awarded to Dr Romain LUTAUD of the Faculty of Medical and Paramedical Sciences, for an experimental training course in critical thinking, dedicated to general medicine residents, in the context of the knowledge crisis and the COVID-19 health crisis.

The National Pedagogy Prize was awarded to Dr Romain Lutaud, general medicine Head of Unit at the University Department of General Medicine (DUMG) of Aix-Marseille University, and health anthropologist at the UMR 7268 ADES, during the last congress of the National College of General Practitioners (CNGE), held from 14 to 16 December 2022.

This Prize recognises the implementation and evaluation of a teaching module for general medicine residents "The COVID-19 crisis, crisis of knowledge: experimentation of a training in critical thinking for general medicine residents", which was also published in the pedagogy section of the medical journal Exercer.

Lutaud R, Chalon B, Bonnet P, Calvet-Montredon C, Mitilian E. Crise du COVID-19, crise des savoirs : expérimentation d’une formation à l’esprit critique auprès des internes de médecine générale. exercer 2022;187:424-7

Teaching critical thinking while involving the patients

A workshop on critical thinking, to strengthen the communication skills of future practitioners, deepen their partnership-based and relational approach with the patients, offered to general medicine students since the 2020-2021 academic year, in the context of the COVID-19 crisis.

Designed as an attempt, in the field of pedagogy, to answer the crisis of knowledge increased by the health crisis, so that general practitioners can remain trusted partners in a time marked by health controversies and disenchantment with science, this workshop addressed :

  • epistemology, history of science, with the aim of exploring the permanent links between science, medicine and society, as well as the variability practices, opinions and attitudes of general practioners ;
  • awareness raising on how to produce scientific proof, present science, adress social uses of knowledge in the Internet era, with a focus on cognitive biases;
  • communication issues, by deepening the techniques of motivational interviewing to explore the patients' knowledge, values and preferences, in a context of scientific controversy.

The teaching team

This Prize rewards the mobilisation of the teaching team coordinated by Dr LUTAUD: Dr BONNET, Dr CALVET-MONTREDON, Dr MITILIAN.

And more broadly, the entire University Department of General Medicine (DUMG) directed by Pr G. GENTILE.