Workshop «Educational
Sciences», Section No. 5
V.M. Tsyrkunov, M.I. Bogutski
Educational Institution «
Educational process at the clinical department of the medical university
aligned with innovative development approach
Innovative development approach to the educational process in the
Training of highly qualified physicians in the first place depends on
the professionalism of lecturers, their creative attitude to the subject they
teach, as it is the teacher at the medical university who directs the students
to develop and self-develop their abilities and forms their attitude to studies
and to doctor’s duty. (A.N. Kosinets et al, 2004)
The Department of Infectious Diseases with the Subdepartment
of Children’s Infections at the
Aligned with the innovative development approach, the combination of
traditional methods with current interactive technologies of teaching is employed in the educational process at
the clinical department. This allows not only to adopt the information provided
by a lecturer but also to find answers to the questions independently. Active
students’ independent knowledge acquisition is highly appreciated and
encouraged. This promotes the development of an integrated, creatively thinking
personality within the system of continuous education. The educational process
ensuring education continuity is realized by the employment of three
components:
·
traditional
educational resources (lectures, practical classes, presentations, patterns,
video films, etc.);
·
self-educational
resources requiring lecturer’s participation (distance education, controlled
independent students’ work, results control);
·
autonomous
educational resources, which do not necessitate teacher’s participation
(multimedia course for independent education, electronic versions of textbooks
and educational manuals, Internet-resources).
Distance learning and education are the new effective forms of
educational process organization, but in Medical Universities, their exact role
and place have not been determined yet.
Together with wide-spread introduction of new forms and methods into
education, the education quality control, adequate students’ knowledge
assessment and their practical skills evaluation as well as the alignment of
the graduates’ training level with the educational standards become of great
importance. The three-stage system of students’ knowledge and practical skills
assessment has been introduced and approved at our Department. The final
assessment of students’ knowledge in the discipline is based on the principle
of accumulation of knowledge and marks at the interim stages in accordance with
all the constitutive criteria, which are assessed separately during the process of education,
starting from the first visit to the clinic (Department). The assessment and
registration of students’ current progress is made. The obtained marks are
documented in the electronic register of the students’ performance (original
version). The achieved knowledge assessment through the borderline and final
computer-based testing is the total of several important components – the
quality of preparedness for practical classes, creative purposeful work of
students in the clinic, adopting lecture materials, the work with textbooks and
recommended supplementary literature. Borderline testing makes it possible for
the teacher to make some adjustment in the teaching methods during the
educational process, to improve the availability of material presentation
considering the outcomes of test control, and students themselves can make
adequate conclusions about the actual levels of their knowledge. Final testing,
in its turn, which is held at the last practical class reflects the level of
mastering of the whole materials and allows to avoid inadequate assessment of
the students’ knowledge, the latter being possible at the examination interview
by the teacher. (V.M. Tsyrkunov et al, 2005).
The written examination on the definite subject allows evaluating the answers
to the questions of the examination cards objectively and implies the
possibility to give a separate mark for solving situation tasks that are by
maximum similar to real situations typical of general practitioner medical practice.
Controlled independent work of students (CIW) includes taking patients’
complaints, obtaining past and epidemiological histories, mastering the methods
of objective examination of infectious patients, making plans of laboratory and
instrumental investigations and treatment, and implies making training case
histories, solving situation tasks and filling the reporting documents. On
every chapter of CIW the separate mark is given, that allows conducting the
monitoring of the extent and quality of the essential practical skills
mastering.
Final examination mark is the average value of the sum of marks that
were got during the academic year (storing system): written examination,
average mark for students’ academic progress, marks for making training case
histories, for practical skills, solving situation tasks and passing the final
test.
Conclusion. As we see it, the conception of educational
process aligned with the innovative development approach implemented in the
Clinic for Infectious Diseases allows using both traditional and innovative
technologies to improve the quality of training specialists with higher medical
education. The implemented methods of students’ knowledge evaluation, continuous and effective monitoring of academic
progress assessment, quality and extent of practical skills mastering allow
more objective students’ knowledge control during the written examination and
improvement of the quality of further doctor’s training in disciplines taught
at the Department.
Authors
1. Tsyrkunov, Vladimir Maksimovich,
Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases with the Subdepartment
of Children’s Infections at the
Educational Institution «Grodno State Medical
University», Prof., Dr.Sc. (Medicine)
phone: +375(152) 43-42-86
e-mail: tvm111@mail.ru
2. Bogutski, Mikhail Ivanovich,
Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases with the Subdepartment of Children’s Infections at the Educational Institution «Grodno State Medical University», Associate Professor, Cand. Sc. (Medicine).
phone: +375(152) 43-42-84
e-mail: ts53@grsmu. by
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