Project team

Jörg Goldhahn

Professor Jörg Goldhahn joined the team in January 2016 as project leader of the bachelor’s degree programme in human medicine. Aware of the complexity of the project and fully motivated to create something from the ground up, he put all his energy into the development of the new medical course from the very beginning. Jörg Goldhahn is responsible for the content of the curriculum and, together with his team, ensures that clinical application is closely involved in the study programme, something which he had missed during his own studies.

He himself teaches the courses Fundamentals of Medicine and the Human Body and Musculoskeletal System and is responsible for the translational research internship. Moreover, he also conducts clinical research in a variety of areas with a specific focus on digital biomarkers, mainly in cooperation with the Baden Cantonal Hospital (KSB).

After the successful launch of the bachelor’s programme, the modules are now being revised and refined. Further training programmes for health professionals are planned to be introduced in the future.

Alexandra Bünder

Alexandra Bünder has been a member of the project team since summer 2017. She has built up the audit system and was responsible for managing the audit team.
With great commitment, she is also responsible for the organization of projects and coordinates the team. In addition, she takes care of the finances and human resources of the project team.

Antonia Magdaleno Martinez Walser

Antonia is responsible for the study administration of the medical students. She communicates information to them and is their point of contact for all questions that they might have.

Antonia prepares the practical implementation of the modules, groups the students for practical work and makes sure that everybody knows when they need to be where. She organises the grading conference, where the final decision is made whether certain students have passed or failed their exams. Afterwards she registers the grades in the system, so that students can see their exam results in protected page myStudies. If the student passed the exam, she makes sure that the ECTS points for the module are credited. In addition to this daily business, Antonia assigns Master study places to the students and distributes them between our partner universities external page USI, external page Universität Basel and external page Zürich – a decision with a heavy impact on their lives. Furthermore, she supports the students whenever they need official documents like performance assessments and certificates for ECTS achievements, and she informs students coming from abroad with special requests regarding the Bachelor Human medicine.

Antonia enjoys the position at the interface of students and department staff. As she puts it: it is challenging, but there is something new to learn every day.

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Mirdita Useini - Curriculum coordination and development

Mirdita’s focus is the curriculum, the core of the Bachelor Human Medicine. She manages the entire curriculum, implements changes and makes sure that all pieces fit together harmoniously.
To accomplish all of this, she leads a dedicated group of student teaching assistants who ensure the successful technical implementation of both online and offline courses and provide support in coordinating the curriculum. In all this, Mirdita keeps the big picture in mind: She maintains a holistic perspective on the curriculum to be able to identify, which competencies and skills come off badly during the course of the study programme and finds ways to enhance the integration of these elements within the curriculum. One approach to address these challenges is her involvement in the teaching commission for Human Medicine. There she discusses and decides on changes and improvement of the study programme. Additionally, she is establishing a digital skills lab at ETH, providing students with opportunities to refine their practical abilities. Furthermore, Mirdita also coordinates parts of the longitudinal curricula, with a focus on areas such as communication skills, sonography and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) competencies. Alongside Tuija Waldvogel she is also responsible for the faculty development, planning the content of various faculty development initiatives. To explore new ideas for further developing the curriculum and gain deeper knowledge in medical education science, she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in external page Medical Education at the University of Bern.
To sum up, Mirdita is the one holding the curriculum together and the link between the department staff, the lecturers, and the students. With her background in intercultural communication, she is perfectly suited to connect these different stakeholders and to make sure that everyone moves in the same direction.

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Martina Michels

Martina is in charge organising the exams. She takes care that all exams in the Bachelor of Human Medicine are running smoothly. She is in close contact to the Curriculum Team, as it is precisely this collaboration that leaves room for exchange and development, feedback, and critical questioning.

This includes duties such as coordinating the collection of the questions and editing them, exchange with the lecturers concerning the question types and formulation, setting exam dates and rooms, continuous collaboration with the LET (Educational Development and Technology), organizing the supervision of the tests. She supports the lecturers in all questions concerning evaluation. In addition to this organizational side, this job also involves implementing assessment theories as well as working closely with curriculum developers.
Martina has profound knowledge of educational theories and their relationship with exams.

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Anja Finkel - Communication Medicine@ETH

Anja's focus lies on integrating and implementing all activities related to the strategic field of action of medicine @ETH into an overall communication strategy. These actions refer to lecturing in all aspects of the Bachelor's degree programme in Human Medicine, research work and ETH technology transfer in clinical application.

Working in the Communication & Event Management project team brings together what is important to Anja: organisational and proactive teamwork, being in contact with a wide range of stakeholders and applying her passion for communication and languages. ETH Zurich as an educational institution sets high standards. Anja finds it extremely inspiring to be actively involved in presenting and facilitating the development and advancement of all activities around medicine @ETH to different stakeholders through live communication and marketing measures.
Developing communication strategies and introducing key topics in such a way that the recipient has a clear idea of what the message is all about characterises her professional career.

Anja's extensive work experience focuses on the areas of communication, marketing, sales and the support of strategic partnerships - predominantly in the tourism and education industry. Training and event management are as much a part of her professional requirements as marketing conception, monitoring, and analysis of launched online and offline campaigns as well as media relations. In most of these positions, she has continuously developed her expertise in an interdisciplinary manner.

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Dr. Claudia Schlegel - Interprofessional cooperation & Skills labs

Claudia works with the Project team part-time next to her main job at the Bildungszentrum Pflege in Bern. Her focus is interdisciplinary and interprofessional cooperation, considering that patient’s health involves many different stakeholders.

Claudia is responsible for the module “interprofessional patient path” in the Bachelor Human medicine. In this module, she raises the students’ awareness that patients are located at the interface of many different professions: In the hospital, there are not only physicians, but also nurses and other caregivers. And after leaving the hospital, they are in contact with the general practitioner, Spitex, pharmacies, health insurance workers and sometimes complementary medicine. All these stakeholders play a role in helping the patients – communication with the patient and amongst each other is key. The module is very practical, and in addition, students can present a patient case from their personal environment. The objective is to create awareness that patients with complex symptoms often undergo an odyssey with many different health professionals involved – an eye-opening experience of thinking outside the box.

In addition to this interdisciplinarity module, also the practical skills of the medical students are dear to Claudia’s heart. Therefore, she is involved in establishing skills labs at ETH, where the students can exercise their practical skills, for example with simulated patients or with digital tools like virtual reality.

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