Deutsch Intern
Institute of Medical Teaching and Medical Education Research

Dr. med. Tobias Mühling

 

Arzt / Arbeitsgruppenleiter / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Medizinische Lehre und Ausbildungsforschung am Universitätsklinikum Würzburg
Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg

 

Adresse:
Josef-Schneider-Str. 2/D6.1.003
97080 Würzburg
Tel. + 49 (0)931/201-70627
Fax. +49 (0)931/201-655213

E-Mail: Muehling_T@ukw.de

       

Vita

  • Leitung der Lehrklinik am Universitätsklinikum Würzburg (seit 2023)
  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Medizinische Lehre und Ausbildungsforschung Würzburg (seit 2020)
  • Facharzt für Innere Medizin an der Medizinischen Klinik II der Uniklinik Würzburg (2019-2022)
  • Assistenzarzt Klinik für Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, München-Klinik Bogenhausen (2014 – 2018)
  • Medizinstudium Universität Ulm (2007-2013). 
     

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Entwicklung von digitalen/VR-basierten Fallszenarien
  • Lerneffekte von VR-basierten Trainings
  • Fairness und Validität von VR-basierten Prüfungen
     

Reviewer-/Editorentätigkeit

  • Reviewer für Journal of Medical Internet Research, European Heart Journal - Digital Health, Virtual Reality, BMC Medical Education, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) u.a.
  • Associate Editor für JMIR Medical Education

Publikationen (Fachartikel)

  • Schaal, Jan; Leutritz, Tobias; Lindner, Marco; Backhaus, Joy; König, Sarah; Mühling, Tobias (2026). Immersive Competence as a Source of Bias in VR-Based Clinical Assessment. npj Digital Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-026-02482-z  
  • Schreiner, Verena; Backhaus, Joy; Lindner, Marco; Heinisch, Melina; König, Sarah; Oberdörfer, Sebastian; Mühling, Tobias (2026). Specific Immersive Competence in VR-Based Assessments: Development, Psychometric Evaluation and Associations with Medical Performance. JMIR Medical Education https://doi.org/10.2196/82136 
  • Lehmann, Marie; Hinz, Stefanie; Zamzow, Alexander; Mikulasch, Jan; Poimann, Horst; Backhaus, Joy;  Mergen, Marvin; Mühling, Tobias (2026). Adapting the TeamSTEPPS team performance observation tool for dyadic interprofessional VR simulations (vTPOT): a multi-step validation study. Advances in Simulation. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41077-026-00431-0
  • El-Sourani, Nader; Mühling, Tobias; Klarmann, Rene; Quintes, Susanne; Bockhorn, Maximilian (2025). Implementation and Analysis of a Fully Immersive Virtual Reality-Based Emergency Training in a Surgical Curriculum. Advances in Medical Education and Practice https://doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S507357
  • Oberdörfer, Sebastian; Heinisch, Melina; Mühling, Tobias; Schreiner, Verena; König, Sarah; Latoschik, Marc (2025). Ready for VR? Assessing VR competence and exploring the role of human abilities and characteristics. Frontiers in Virtual Realityhttps://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2025.1608593
  • Keicher, Franca; Müller, Mirja; Ruf, Katharina; Härtel, Christoph; König, Sarah; Mühling, Tobias (2025). Enhancing Pediatric Emergency Training: The Impact of Virtual Reality- Simulations on Medical Student Knowledge and Learning Experience. Virtual Reality.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-025-01243-9  
  • Mühling, Tobias; Demmler, Lea; Backhaus, Joy; König, Sarah (2025). How Personality and Affective Responses are Associated with Skepticism towards Virtual Reality in Medical Training – A Pre-Post Intervention Study. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.  https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/cyber.2024.0567
  • Lehmann, Marie; Mikulasch, Jan; Poimann, Horst; Backhaus, Joy; König, Sarah; Mühling, Tobias (2025). Training and Assessing Teamwork in Interprofessional Virtual Reality-based Simulation using the TeamSTEPPS framework – Protocol for a Randomized Pre-post Intervention Study. JMIR Research Protocols.  https://www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e68705
  • Lindner, Marco; Leutritz, Tobias; Backhaus, Joy; König, Sarah; Mühling, Tobias (2025). Knowledge Gain and the Impact of Stress in a fully immersive Virtual Reality-based Medical Emergencies Training with Automated Feedback – A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Researchhttps://www.jmir.org/2025/1/e67412
  • Mühling, Tobias; Schreiner, Verena; Appel, Marc; Leutritz, Tobias; König, Sarah (2025): Clinical Competency Assessments: Comparing Virtual-Reality-Based and Traditional Physical OSCE Stations – A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://www.jmir.org/2025/1/e55066
  • Keicher, Franca; Backhaus, Joy; König, Sarah; Mühling, Tobias (2024): Virtual reality for assessing emergency medical competencies in junior doctors - a pilot study. International journal of emergency medicine  https://intjem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12245-024-00721-2
  • Mühling, Tobias; Späth, Isabelle; Backhaus, Joy; Milke, Nathalie; Oberdörfer, Sebastian; Meining, Alexander et al. (2023): Virtual reality in medical emergencies training: benefits, perceived stress, and learning success. Multimedia Systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00530-023-01102-0
  • Mühling, Tobias; Rohrbach, Helmut; Schepp, Wolfgang; Gundling, Felix (2021): Overlap of concurrent extrahepatic autoimmune diseases is associated with milder disease severity of newly diagnosed autoimmune hepatitis. Hepatobiliary & pancreatic diseases international DOI: 10.1016/j.hbpd.2020.06.019.
  • Gundling, Felix; Parasiris, Paris; Bunz, Anna-Lena; Sohn, Maximilian; Haller, Bernhard; Schepp, Wolfgang; Mühling, Tobias (2019): Deficits in Health-Literacy of Inpatients - a Cross-Sectional Study. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift DOI: 10.1055/a-0758-0647.
  • Kübel, Dorothee; Tiller, Maximilian; Mühling, Tobias; Sohn, Maximilian; Vallbracht, Inka; Waschulzik, Birgit et al. (2018): Liver disease in systemic Lupus erythematodes - results of an explorative observational study. In: Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie  DOI: 10.1055/a-0645-7200.
  • Heiser, Clemens; Haller, Bernhard; Sohn, Maximilian; Hofauer, Benedikt; Knopf, Andreas; Mühling, Tobias et al. (2018): Olfactory Function is Affected in Patients with Cirrhosis Depending on the Severity of Hepatic Encephalopathy. Annals of hepatology DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0012.3143.
  • Mühling, Tobias; Gundling, Felix; Helmberger, Thomas; Schepp, Wolfgang (2017): Traveler's Diarrhea, vision abnormalities and unsteady gait in a young woman. Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-100119.
  • Mühling, Tobias*; Duda, Johanna*; Weishaupt, Jochen H.; Ludolph, Albert C.; Liss, Birgit (2014): Elevated mRNA-levels of distinct mitochondrial and plasma membrane Ca(2+) transporters in individual hypoglossal motor neurons of endstage SOD1 transgenic mice.  Frontiers in cellular neuroscience DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00353.
  • Fuchs, Andrea; Kutterer, Sylvie; Mühling, Tobias; Duda, Johanna; Schütz, Burkhard; Liss, Birgit et al. (2013): Selective mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake deficit in disease endstage vulnerable motoneurons of the SOD1G93A mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The Journal of physiology DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.247981.