Creating a Digital Learning Tool for the Medical Course ‘Weg Met de Dokter - Laat de Natuur Jouw Werk Doen’

The bachelor’s thesis aims to discover how to develop a digital learning tool that effectively conveys the course information of the medical course: ‘Weg Met de Dokter - Laat de Natuur Jouw Werk Doen!’. This course aims to educate Dutch general practitioners on how to incorporate nature-based interventions into their medical practices. Alongside many physical effects, nature also induces various psychological effects that have a positive impact on well-being, such as lowering stress, regulating emotion, and restoring attention. To support the health of the general practitioners, this thesis also investigated how to digitally induce nature’s psychological effects, and how to integrate them into the digital learning tool. Through extensive background research; stakeholder analysis; and iterative and user-based design; an interactive infographic was created that provides general practitioners with an effective and calming learning experience. The tool was positively received by the client, Pim van den Dungen, and will be further developed into a fully finalized product, which will be used starting in October 2023.