Outcomes and results

The project developed, collected and made freely available teaching material for educating physicians and medical students in violence prevention and peace building. The outcomes and results include:

• Seven self-running, case-oriented, and multi-media online courses including 380 multiple choice questions and 21 problem based e-learning cases
• Medical Peace Work textbook, 2nd edition with seven independent but interlinked course e-books
• Medical Peace Work CD-ROM with offline version of e-learning cases and textbook
• More than 3 hours fresh film-material and video interviews to confront students with real and challenging situations, and to learn from experts from the field
• Web-based information centre www.medicalpeacework.org presenting this new field, the partnership and all products of this project
• Comprehensive resource databases with available information about field-relevant research and teaching possibilities, accessible teaching material, resource persons and vital references
• Conceptual framing, testing, refinement and dissemination of Medical Peace Work
• Scientific articles/chapters published in internationally recognised and recited medical journals and textbooks
• 4 partner meetings and strengthening of European collaboration
• International symposium in Tromsø in June 2007 and conference proceedings
• Valorisation meeting and dialogue with reference group
• Dissemination of Medical Peace Work in partner countries and internationally with announcements in national languages
• Conference participation, presentation of Medical Peace Work, and networking
• Building up a testers network and contact with end-users