Finding My Place in Medicine: Listen. Reflect. Discover.
🎓 Course Type: Change Maker Ambassador Programme
📅 Dates: 18–20 May 2027
📍 Medical University of Gdańsk (MUG), Poland
📝 1 ECTS credit and a certificate
⏰ Application deadline: 29 January 2027
How can medical students better understand themselves, their future professional roles and the pathways available to them within medicine?
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The programme aims to strengthen communication, empathy, active listening and self-reflection skills among medical students. It seeks to create opportunities for meaningful dialogue about professional identity, future specialisation choices and personal development while encouraging active student participation in shaping educational experiences.
How can medical students better understand themselves, their future professional roles and the pathways available to them within medicine?
This Change Maker Ambassador Programme provides students with an opportunity to engage in structured dialogue, collaborative reflection and changemaking processes that support both personal and professional development. The interest in developing this initiative stems from the experience of Mateusz Guziak, a PhD student and medical doctor who participated in dialogue circle workshops organised by ACE²-EU. After this experience, he introduced the method in a Psychology in Medicine class for second-year medical students. The discussion focused on students’ preferred medical specialties and the factors influencing their career choices. Through facilitated dialogue circles and participatory learning approaches, participants will explore questions related to communication, empathy, career aspirations and medical education. Working alongside external stakeholders, they will identify needs, develop solutions and propose interventions that can contribute to a more reflective, inclusive and student-centred learning environment. By bringing together up to 24 medical students to explore a selected challenge related to medical education, participants will work in two groups of 12, each supported by a dedicated facilitator.
- Fahrenheit Union
- Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk
Registration is done by email. To register, please send an email to the programme coordinators: ikowalczyk@gumed.edu.pl.
Participants receive a certificate worth 1 ECTS.
Izabela Kowalczyk-Dec, e-mail: ikowalczyk@gumed.edu.pl