You are a physician. It’s November and one day a patient, Frederic Cave, shows up in your open office hours and asks for your advice. He didn’t bring a health history and since it’s the first time you meet the patient, you ask him about it. Cave is 42 years old, not married, but lives in a long-term relationship and works as a system administrator for a local, medium-size company. He is of rather corpulent appearance and scaling his weigh shows that he is slightly overweight for his body height. He came to see you, because lately he often felt unusually tired which eventually affected his work performance, when he almost fell asleep at his desk a few weeks ago. He is also very thirsty and thus drinks much more water and ice tea than he used to.
This PBL case gives students the opportunity to research diabetes in the context of patient lifestyle and diagnostic.
Simon J. Büchner studied Cognitive Science and Philosophy in Freiburg and Cognitive Psychology in Amherst, Massachusetts, supported by scholarships from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. He then worked in interdisciplinary research projects on human spatial navigation and received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Freiburg. As a graduate student, he was a visiting researcher at Concordia University, Montréal. Dr. Büchner is responsible for the Major Life Sciences at the University College Freiburg. This includes the development of the curriculum, the course offerings per semester, recruiting and supporting Teaching Fellows, as well as thesis supervision.
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