Markus A. Feufel How Can the Understanding of Medical Statistics Be Improved?
Markus A. Feufel is Assistant Professor of Ergonomics at Technische Universität Berlin. Some of his previous affiliations include the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. His research is focused, among other topics, on risk communication and informed decision-making as well as bounded rationality and decision-making under uncertainty. He has received various awards for his academic work and won a Fulbright Fellowship.
Area of Research
Ergonomics, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
since 2016
Assistant Professor
Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin)
Department of Psychology and Ergonomics
since 2016
Visiting Scientist
Charité - University Medicine Berlin (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Institute for Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation
since 2012
Associated Research Scientist
Max Planck Society
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2015-2016
Vice Director of Educational Affairs
Charité - University Medicine Berlin (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
2012-2016
Research Scientist
Charité - University Medicine Berlin (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
2012-2016
Assistant to the Dean of Educational Affairs
Charité - University Medicine Berlin (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
2009-2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Society
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2005-2009
Graduate Research Assistant
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Culture and Cognition Lab, Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory
2009
PhD
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Human Factors and I/O Psychology
2006
Master of Science
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Human Factors and I/O Psychology
2003
Diploma
Stuttgart Media University (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart)
Audiovisual Media Engineering
Prizes
- Deutscher Forschungspreis für Allgemeinmedizin 2016 (3rd), Dr. Lothar Beyer Stiftung
- Human Factors Prize 2011 (runner-up), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Best Ergonomics in Design Article (2010), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Fellowships
- Fulbright Fellowship (2004-06)
Knowledge of medical treatments is usually not equally distributed between physicians and patients. Often, doctors need to analyze the available data in the medical domain and then communicate the results about possible options to the patient. MARKUS A. FEUFEL has focused his research on the challenge of this communication. As he describes in this video, his research team found that it is not only the patients who have difficulties understanding medical statistics but physicians as well. In particular, they noted these difficulties in connection with the statistical format called „relative risks”. As a consequence, they developed suggestions and interventions to improve the doctor-patient communication and the understanding of risks connected to medical data.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10543
Statistische Risiken und Unsicherheit in PatientInneninformationen
- Markus A. Feufel
- Gesundheitsforschung kommunizieren, Stakeholder Engagement gestalten
- Published in 2017
