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Context
The quality of paediatric services depends on the physicians’ job specific skills involving knowledge and practical abilities (hard skills) and also a series of soft transversal, personality-linked, intellectual skills and meta-skills (i.e. soft skills).

Soft skills are likely to make the difference between the good and excellent paediatric health services, creating an error free, safer, and supportive environment for the paediatric patients and parents.
Objectives
The project aims to identify the most important soft skills in the field of paediatrics, match them with the best teaching methods and strategies, and elaborate guidelines and materials for training the paediatricians’ trainers.
Target Groups
The main target groups of the project are:
  • Lecturers in paediatrics
  • Medical practitioners in paediatrics
  • Medical students: pre-service and residents in paediatrics
Activities
The project activities will be organized in the following phases:
  • Phase 1 - Publication on Paediatrics Soft Skills Needs
  • The project partners cooperate for the creation of a publication presenting the results of a research activity aimed at analysing the needs and expectations of the three main actors of paediatric health services: paediatricians, paediatric students, paediatric patients and their parents.
  • Phase 2 – Training Package for Paediatricians Professors and Trainers
  • The project partners create a training package addressed to lecturers and trainers in the field of paediatrics on how to assist paediatric undergraduate and resident students in developing and consolidating their soft skills for improving the quality of paediatric services.The training package will be developed in order to address the needs described in the phase 1 and it will contain teaching resources for each identified soft skill and will be made available on the project portal.
  • Phase 3 – Joint Staff Training Event
  • The joint staff training event will take place in Tirgu Mures (RO) for 7 days. Through the training, lecturers involved in paediatric education, will acquire knowledge, skills and competence to make full use of the project results in order to be able to:
      - Transfer soft skills to their students through: emerging technology-based methods, tools and contents such as: podcasts, video tutorials on team-based learning, problem-solving, gamification, etc.
      - Foster and optimisation of paediatric education to better meet the specific current and future needs of infants, children and teenagers, medical employers and other stakeholders.
    The event will involve 10 lecturers (2 for each country).
  • Phase 4 - Training Package for Paediatricians
  • The project develop a training package addressed to students, residents, medical practitioners in paediatrics on how to learn, develop and consolidate their soft skills for improving the quality of paediatric services.The training package will be developed in order to address the needs identified during the phase 1 and with reference to the teaching concepts developed in the phase 2.
  • Phase 5 - Dissemination events
  • A number of multiplier events will be organized to disseminate the results reached, methodologies implemented and outputs produced in the framework of the Softis-Ped project. The participants in the multiplier events will be: lecturers, professors, students and paediatric practitioners.
Expected Results
The main project deliverables include:
  • Publication on paediatric soft skills needs produced on research-based evidence
  • Training package for lecturers and trainers in paediatrics
  • Training package for paediatricians and paediatric students

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This web site reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.