Long-term project goals are to develop: - practical lectures (15h/lecture - 2 sessions/year - 6 different topics throughout the 3 years of the project) about infectious diseases for European PG students, using active teaching methods taught in WP3 [WP2] - a seminar about innovative teaching methods for the European health educators [WP3] - summer schools to increase knowledge and offer innovative activities for PG students (and advanced UG students) [WP4] - Update of the online resources for students and teachers on the open-source website to disseminate those resources to other trainers and students Enables to: - consolidate and diversify knowledge about infectious diseases and antibiotics prescription among European students, freshen and improve the teaching approach - better prepare doctors to the challenges connected to the infectious diseases in their daily practice - enhance quality of teaching of the teachers in European medicine and offer free online supports
IDEALITER follows the IDEAL and IDEAL+ projects. It develops and implements durable medical education about infectious diseases, targeting UG and PG students, educators, professionals and teachers interested in innovative teaching methods. Since the pandemic, training in infectious diseases is more than crucial: they are the 2nd worldwide cause of death with some known pathogens coming back (measles…) and other multi-resistant strains rising (COVID…). Future doctors must handle diagnosis, be able of decision-making, administer antibiotics and be actors of prevention from UG years. Most of the European students take lectures, inadequate to get those key skills. Educators are also lacking training about innovative teaching methods. IDEALITER offers an expert training, including online courses and disseminates innovative teaching tools. The program mentors 5 new institutions, enlarging the consortium and emphasizing the diffusion of the methods coming from the previous projects. The mentorship led to the application to a new project, IDEAL4PREPAREDNESS in March 2025, including the 5 mentored institutions as parts of the consortium.