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On December 26, the last meeting of the Academic Council of Odesa National Medical University in 2024 was held in lecture hall No. 1 of the main university building and on the Microsoft Teams platform.
The meeting was opened by the Chairman of the Academic Council, Rector of the University, Academician Valerii Zaporozhan. Before the meeting, he presented the medal and diploma of the laureate of the National Prize of Ukraine named after Boris Paton by the Decree of the President of Ukraine to Serhiy Tertyshyn for his work “Multimodal technologies in thoracoabdominal surgery in the conditions of modern war, and congratulated the Head of the Department of Social Sciences, Associate Professor Olha Sikorska, and Associate Professor of the Department of Social Sciences Tetiana Podkupko-Diachkova on being awarded the ONMedU Diploma for fruitful work. He also informed the audience that the Testing Center at the Ministry of Health of Ukraine expressed gratitude to the employees of the institution: Valeria Marichereda, Ihor Gladchuk, Alla Volianska, Gulsym Manasova, Volodymyr Artyomenko, Diana Parubina, Svitlana Posokhova, Natalia Rozhkovska for their active participation in the working group on developing the content structure of the KROK-3 licensing integrated exam for interns in the specialty “Obstetrics and Gynecology” in the field of knowledge “22 Health Care” and conveyed congratulations from the leadership in the person of Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, recently elected Honorary Professor (doctor honoris causa) of ONMedU and the student government of Queen Mary University (London, Great Britain) with wishes for further cooperation between our universities.
According to the agenda, the first vice-rector, Professor Valeria Marichereda, spoke about the vision and experience of ONMedU in implementing simulation learning technologies in the educational process. In 2024, it will be 10 years since simulation learning was introduced at the university. Until 2014, the institution had separate thematic simulation classes based on departments. In 2014, the Department of Simulation Medicine was created, and on its basis the Educational and Innovation Center for Practical Training of Doctors appeared. In 2019, the Center for Preparation for OSCE was established as a separate structural unit. Preparation for the objective structured clinical exam revealed a number of problems with simulation learning, so in 2021, the Department of Simulation Medicine was reformed and the function of structuring simulation learning at the university was added to the powers of the department staff. Today, the organizational structure of simulation training at ONMedU allows every higher education student to master practical skills, acquire general and professional competencies. At the same time, the speaker, Professor Valeria Marichereda, is confident that despite the successes achieved, one cannot be complacent. The next steps are the introduction of augmented reality technologies, virtual reality technologies for mastering individual skills, primarily related to especially dangerous infections and mass damage to the population, as well as virtual reality technologies for simulating remote consulting or telemedicine technologies, into the educational process. In addition, it is planned to create a separate simulation class for mastering telemedicine technologies.
The Director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Continuous Medical Training, Professor Yurii Sukhin, provided information on the contract and budget cycles conducted and the work of the institution’s departments in 2024.
During the current year, several requests were received from the Ministry of Health regarding the inclusion of socially significant topics in postgraduate education. Thus, the Department of Psychiatry, Narcology, Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy has included in the curricula of training cycles of specialization and thematic improvement the issues of preventing manifestations of discrimination on ethnic grounds when providing medical services, combating sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the medical field. Also, this department has included in the curricula for general practitioners and family medicine doctors the issues of improving their skills in counseling on family planning and gender-based violence. The Department of General and Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy has prepared the TI “Medical Cannabis in Modern Medicine”. The Department of Occupational Pathology and Functional Diagnostics and Phthisiopulmonology introduced in November and included in the curriculum for 2025 the TI “Training of heads and doctors of medical commissions on issues of military medical examination under martial law.”
Concluding his report, Yurii Sukhin emphasized: “All departments of our university have great potential in postgraduate education, so I strongly invite the departments that did not hold the planned cycles to cooperate. And I sincerely thank the departments that took an active part in the work of the cycles for your cooperation! Thanks to you, the university received 5 million 456 thousand UAH, thank you again!”.
Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work, Professor Svitlana Kotiuzhynska, reported on the completion and interim research works of the university departments funded by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. She also emphasized the new requirements for evaluating the scientific work of the university’s teaching staff in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science No. 14 25 dated 10/21/2024.
During the meeting, the awarding of academic titles to department employees was considered, the creation of a one-time specialized academic council for the defense of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was approved, a number of Regulations on the work of university departments were established, the limit of student scholarship holders for the assignment of an academic scholarship for the spring semester of the 2024/2025 academic year and the amount of the deduction for student self-government for 2025 were established, a recommendation was made for the publication of methodological manuals developed by the institution’s employees.
At the end of the meeting, the Chairman of the Academic Council, Rector of ONMedU, Academician Valerii Zaporozhan, congratulated those present on the upcoming New Year holidays and wished everyone good health, good mood and faith in a peaceful future.
The meeting of the Academic Council of ONMedU was concluded in a solemn atmosphere to the Anthem of Ukraine.
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