apl. Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Nikendei, MME
Focus
Posttraumatic stress disorders, secondary traumatization, care for mentally burdened refugees and asylum seekers, autobiographical memory in psychosomatic disorders, medical didactics, communicative and procedural skills in medical students, psychotherapy research, competence-based training of psychotherapists in education, stress and burnout at work, acquisition of health competence.
Medical/Professional background
Appointment as associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics
Senior Consultant; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Head of Psychotraumatology Section; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Provisional Senior Physician; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Senior Physician; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Assistant physician; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Internship; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Medical studies in Tübingen
Scientific background
Habilitation, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Master of Medical Education Deutschland (MME-D)
Dissertation at the Institute for Medical Psychology, University of Tübingen
Commendations
Ars legendi award for excellent teaching in university medicine
Senior-Fellowship of the Stifterverband für Deutsche Wissenschaft for innovations in university teaching
RIME AWARD „Beginners and Students in Difficult Situations"
RIME AWARD„Teaching and Assessment“
Poster Award "Innovative Teaching Projects / Reform Approaches in Medical Education"
Miriam Friedman Ben-David New Educator Award der Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
Special prize within the scope of the Quality Promotion Prize Health Baden-Württemberg
GMA Prize for Young Teachers of the Society for Medical Education
Oskar Kuhn Prize of the Bleib Gesund Foundation
Teaching Award of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg
SPECIALIST ACCREDITATIONS
Psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy
Internal Medicine
Additional title doctor for acupuncture
FURTHER EDUCATION
Baden-Wuerttemberg certificate for university didactics
Management Seminar for Senior Physicians and Senior Executives of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University
Continuing Education Psychosocial Oncology (WPO)
RESPONSIBILITIES
Head of Skills Lab Training at the Medical University Hospital
Head of the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Skills Lab Curriculum of the Heidelberg Medical Faculty
PY Coordinator of the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Head of the Psychotherapy Research Outpatient Clinic of the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Responsibility HeiTiMed (Heidelberg tutorials for international medical students)
Responsibility Stress Prevention Program for First Semester Medical Students (PräBooster)
LECTURING ACTIVITIES
Society for Medical Education (GMA)
Competence Center Examinations Baden-Württemberg (KomP)
MME-Germany Program of Studies (MME-D)
Educational and consulting center of the municipal hospital Karlsruhe
AG Teaching of the German College for Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM)
Institute for Didactics and Research in Medicine (idfm e.V.)
Qualification Program Clinical Research HD-MÜ HH TÜ
Competence Network Education Baden-Württemberg
Heidelberg Institute for Depth Psychology (HIT)
Heidelberg Institute for Psychotherapy (HIP)
FundED PROJECTS
"APRIKO - Workplace-based and PRofessIon-spanning Communication Trainings"; funded by the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
"Design, implementation and evaluation of a longitudinal curriculum for the teaching and practical testing of psychodynamic intervention skills in the training of psychological psychotherapy"; funded by the Köhler Foundation
"Investigating the interaction of emotional reactivity and neural reward processing in patients with complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder"; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
"Longitudinal Skills-Lab-Curriculum"; special line teaching of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
"Heidelberg Standard Examination / Heidelberg Standard Procedures / Heidelberg Standard Procedures - Advanced"; Special Line Teaching of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
"HeiTiMed - Heidelberg Tutorial for International Medical Students"; special teaching line of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art
"Stress prevention seminars for medical students"; special line teaching of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
"Healthy ageing in the nursing profession - development and evaluation of an intervention module to promote successful ageing in the nursing profession"; funded by the BMBF
"Psychotherapeutic Evening Clinic: New form of care for depressive patients (P-AK)"; sponsored by the Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (GBA) for grants from the Innovation Fund
"Development and implementation of care concepts for traumatized refugees and incriminated helpers"; funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
"Attachment related autobiographical memory in depression and changes during course of psychotherapeutic treatment"; Small Grant of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR);
"Changes in Disorder-related Autobiographical Memory during Weight Restoration in Anorexia Nervosa Patients"; funded by the Swiss Anorexia Foundation
"Stress Prevention Program for Medical Students in the Practical Year - a Study in Control Group Design"; Senior Fellowship Support Program for Innovations in University Teaching of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, the Joachim Herz Foundation, the Donors' Association of German Science and the Caspar Ludwig Opländer Foundation
"Competence Center for the Prevention of Mental and Psychosomatic Disorders in the World of Work and Education (PPAA)" ; Subproject: "Predictors of Psychosocial Stress in Medical Students"; funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg