Prof. Dr med.
Achim Mortsiefer
Chair holder
Faculty of Health (School of Medicine) | Chair of General Medicine II and Patient Orientation in Primary Care
Chair of General Practice II and Patient Orientation in Primary Care
The Chair of General Practice II and Patient Orientation in Primary Care deals comprehensively with interdisciplinary cooperation and patient-centred care. As part of the Institute of General Practice and Primary Care(iamag), it works closely with the Chair of General Practice I.
Our focus is on research and teaching in general practice and outpatient healthcare. The main topics are doctor-patient communication, clinical decision-making, drug therapy safety, interprofessional care in multimorbidity, risk communication and digital applications in practice. We develop practice-relevant training and research concepts for GPs.
Research
Research specialisations:
- Health care research in the outpatient setting
- Development and implementation of educational interventions in primary care (cluster-randomised controlled trials)
- Doctor-patient communication
- Multimorbidity, palliative care
- Drug therapy safety, polypharmacy and deprescribing
- Health promotion and positive health
- Gender and gender-sensitive healthcare
- Participatory research approaches (public and patient involvement)
Current research projects
Employees
To the iamag team
Resume
Since 2021
Chair of General Practice II and Patient Orientation in Primary Care, Institute of General Practice and Primary Care (iamag), Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University
2020 - 2021
Professorship for Primary Health Care, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University
2018
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification and venia legendi in general practice at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf with the title: "Promotion of medical counselling skills in GP practice and teaching"
2014 - 2020
Head of the research area "Patient-Physician Communication" at the Institute for General Practice (ifam) (Prof Dr Stefan Wilm), University Hospital Düsseldorf
2005 - 2014
Academic staff member at the Department of General Practice (Prof Dr Heinz-Harald Abholz), Düsseldorf University Hospital
Since 2003
General practitioner in joint practice with Dr Anja Breer in Cologne
1997 - 2002
Assistant doctor (internal medicine, surgery) and training as a specialist in general practice
1998
Doctoral studies (Dr med.), Institute for Theory and History of Medicine, University of Münster (Prof. Dr Richard Toellner)
1987 - 1996
Study of medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
Teaching
Medicine degree programme
- Seminar teaching in general practice and outpatient healthcare
- Teaching of practical skills: physical examination techniques, sonography, ECG
- Doctor-patient communication
- Scientific work
Doctoral supervision (Dr med. and Dr rer. medic)
Press expert for
- General practice and outpatient health care
- Multimorbidity and polypharmacy
- Health promotion and positive health
Gender-sensitive care
Further information
Memberships:
- Editorial Board Member: BMC Primary Care; Journal of General Practice (ZFA)
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Services Research - IZVF (UW/H)
- Member of the steering group "Leuchtturm Gendermedizin.NRW" (as part of Cluster Medizin.NRW)
- Founding member and moderator of the German Deprescribing Network (GerDeN)
- German Society for General Practice and Family Medicine (DEGAM)
- German Network for Health Care Research (DNVF)
European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN)