Wound care education from a medicine perspective

The objective of wound care education in undergraduate medical programmes is to provide the students with the knowledge and skills to treat patients with wounds in primary care, where most of these patients initially seek advice. Other healthcare professionals besides physicians should be involved in teaching medical students to better prepare them to work in a multiprofessional setting, which is typical of modern wound care. To this end, teaching can also incorporate interprofessional learning. In order to be effective and purposeful, wound care education must be based on pre-defined learning goals. Several medical specialities treat patients with wounds, and the obvious primary objective of specialist training programmes is to prepare trainees to work independently as medical specialists within a given discipline. However, wound care may necessitate a multidisciplinary approach, denoting that a medical specialist should also have basic knowledge of other specialities in addition to their own to be able to compare different courses of action and to consult other specialities purposefully. This can be facilitated with common wound care-related learning goals designated for all medical specialities that treat patients with wounds.