Projects

Alcmaeon

Website: https://alcmaeon.pixel-online.org/

Project is developed under Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership programme (KA2 - Strategic Partnership for Higher Education)

Name of the project: Design a digital collection to include medical museum in the teaching of medical humanities and promote object-based learning education model

Project period: 01.10.2018 - 30.09.2020

Project No.: 2018-1-ES01-KA203-050606

Project partnership:

1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES
2. University of Bristol (UK)
3. Pixel - Associazione Culturale (IT)
4. Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (GR)
5. Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (IT)
6. Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Grigore T.popa Iasi (RO)
7. Fundatia EuroEd (RO)

The main aim of the project is to innovate the teaching of medical history with a new educational approach, the object-based learning, and to work in a better integration of historical, ethical and psychosocial components of medical humanities.

The project will develop a digital museum teaching platform with audio- visual materials and digitalized collections of medical museums from Italy, Spain, Greece, Great Britain and Romania, in an attempt to promote the different traditions characterizing European medical history and bring medical museums in the classroom.

The main target group:

• - doctors
• - university lecturers in humanities in medicine
• - medical students
• - policy makers in the field of education

Results:

• - Improve the quality of the teaching of medical history in the course medical humanities at medical schools.
• - Promote the object-based learning approach among medical students.
• - Training package in medical history for medical humanities lecturers 
• - Collection for digital medical museum
• - Virtual video library with testimonials from role-model doctors