Education quality management system of ONMedU: tasks and preliminary results

Since 2014, Odessa National Medical University has been implementing a quality management system for training specialists. At a meeting of the Academic Council Acting Vice-Rector Iryna Shmakova reported on the implementation of the first of the three stages of the system implementation.
Education quality management aims to increase the compliance of university policy with the needs of the health care system in the region in terms of the number and professional level of specialists, to ensure the efficiency and competitiveness of education and flexibility of management.
The first stage is the formation of the mission and policy of ONMedU in the field of quality of education in the context of the spread of COVID-19 and related changes in the educational process. The stage contained 6 tasks that have been completed so far: defining the policy and goals of ONMedU regarding the quality of education, issuing an order to start developing a quality management system, creating a working group, approving an action plan, etc.
The second stage of the plan for the implementation of the quality management system of education involves the addition and improvement of basic documents, the third stage – the implementation and certification of the Quality Management System in ONMedU. The implementation of the plan is designed for 2 months. The result is a certification audit.
In addition, in the framework of this work in 2021 it is planned to hold a scientific-practical conference “Ensuring the quality of higher medical education in quarantine.”