[Social medicine within the frame work of a planned model medical curriculum of the Rudolf Virchow University Clinic of the Berlin Free University].
The planning group "Reformed Study Course in Medicine" at the Rudolf Virchow Clinical Centre of the Free University of Berlin presented in 1992 a draft of a model curriculum with particular emphasis on sociomedical aspects. As German statutory sickness insurance sets great store by getting the patient to go to his "family doctor" first before consulting a specialist ("primärärztliche Orientierung"), sociomedical aspects have now assumed greater importance than previously. Sociomedically relevant professional series of events within the framework of the model curriculum are presented with particular reference to a continual integration of theory and practice by means of so-called "practice days" and "investigations into the professional activities of a doctor in general". Principal topics and teaching and learning goals governing the individual semester are exemplified.