Peer Trainers Seminar Series at ONMedU

Odessa National Medical University continues the Peer Trainers Seminar Series as part of the implementation of the UkraineDigiTrans grant project “Digital Transformation of Medical Education in Ukraine”, funded by the European Commission.

The UkraineDigiTrans project aims to strengthen the potential of Ukrainian partner universities by developing professional knowledge and professional competencies of medical teachers. This is planned through the implementation of a scalable educational model focused on digital and pedagogical skills, course design, e-health and remote management of the educational process. The model is supplemented with educational and methodological materials and recommendations that will contribute to the unification of approaches to digital education. The project is implemented in cooperation between European and Ukrainian medical universities, as well as the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

In the 2025-2026 academic year, a cycle of peer-to-peer seminars for university teachers continues with trainers – academic staff of our university who underwent an intensive training course at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki) and the Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki (Finland) within the framework of the project.

On September 2, the series of seminars began with the introduction and training of teachers in the educational method “virtual patient” as a tool for the development of clinical thinking. The event was opened by the first vice-rector of the university, Valeria Hennadiivna Marichereda. The speakers of the seminar – Kateryna Usychenko and Yuriy Petrovsky – drew attention to the capabilities of the CASUS, OpenLabirynth and Moodle platforms for practical work with a virtual patient.

The following seminars are planned for September 2025:

Intellectual property and digital technologies in medical science and education: legal aspects and recommendations for researchers and teachers (speaker Kateryna Nitochko);
Telemedicine as a global system of modern healthcare; Helsi as a medical information system for healthcare institutions and a medical portal for patients in Ukraine (speakers Andriy Ponomarenko and Tetyana Khimenko);
Effective communication between teachers and students; Increasing motivation for learning and increasing student participation in the educational process, overcoming teachers’ resistance to change (speakers Viktoriya Borshch and Olha Litvinenko).
All trainings are held in a dynamic format that promotes the professional growth of teachers and the modernization of the educational process.