Department of Infectious Diseases
Academic methodological activity
Practical classes, dental faculty
Schedule of practical classes 2019-2020
Schedule of rework module control, 2019-2020
Topics of the lectures, dental faculty
The department provides with teaching academic discipline “Infectious diseases” for pre-graduate training of specialists due to specialties “Medical care”, “Pediatrics”, “Medical preventive care”, “Dentistry”, “Medical psychology” in the 4th and 5th course and academic discipline “Infectious and parasitic diseases” within academic discipline “Internal diseases” for students of the 6th course and their associated elective courses. The department is entrusted with realization of postgraduate education: specialization of doctors-interns with training direction “Infectious diseases” (2011 – 5 persons, 2012 – 5 persons), resident medical practitioners (2011 – 1 person). The department is also engaged into scientific and practical training masters of medicine (2011 – 1 person, 2012 – 2 persons) and intramural post-graduate students (as of 2012 – 4 persons). The department performs the adjoining cycles in academic discipline “Infectious diseases” for interns-specialists in emergency and intensive therapy, family medicine, and doctors of sport medicine. The department carries out the advanced training within corresponding faculty for teachers in higher medical schools of III-IV and I-II accreditation levels on academic discipline “Infectious diseases”, “Infectious and parasitic diseases” and their associated elective courses.
Since 1992 due to the Order from MHC of Ukraine (which is prolonged by order from MHC of Ukraine No 532) the department is the supportive one for department in higher medical schools of Ukraine of IV accreditation level, which are charged with teaching academic discipline “Infectious diseases” for pre-graduate training specialists due to specialties “Medical care”, “Pediatrics”, “Medical preventive care”, “Dentistry”, “Medical psychology”. According to the status of supportive one, the department actively develops and implements the new forms for organization and methodology of academic process, which assist to improvement in quality of specialists training at one-field departments. Every year the department holds the meetings for heads at department of infectious diseases in higher medical schools of Ukraine, where all issues on work of department are discussed and above all the advanced experience and newest methodological development of the leading department in NMU is spread and implemented, as well as the experience of other departments is generalized that in total assists to improvement in quality of doctors training.
At present moment the department developed 5 typical curricula:
- Typical curriculum “Infectious diseases” for students of the 4th course in dental faculty;
- Typical program for elective course “Actual problems of HIV-infection” for students of the 4th course in dental faculty;
- Typical curriculum “Infectious diseases” for students of the 5th course in medical faculty;
- Typical curriculum for elective course “Clinical parasitology and tropical medicine” for students of the 6th course in medical faculty;
- Typical curriculum for elective course “Actual problems of infectious diseases and HIV-infection” for students of the 6th course in medical faculty.
The department developed 16 detailed curricula in NMU:
1. Detailed curriculum “Infectious diseases” for students of the 4th course in dental faculty;
2. Detailed curriculum for elective course “Actual problems of HIV-infection” for students of the 4th course in dental faculty;
3. Detailed curriculum “Infectious diseases” for students of the 5th course in medical faculty;
4. Detailed curriculum “Infectious diseases” for students of the 5th course in medical faculty and sphere of physical culture and sport;
5. Detailed curriculum “Infectious diseases” for students of the 5th course in pediatric faculty;
6. Detailed curriculum “Infectious diseases” for students of the 5th course in medical preventive faculty;
7. Detailed curriculum “Infectious diseases” for students of the 5th course in medical psychological faculty;
8. Detailed curriculum “Infectious and parasitic diseases” for students of the 6th course in medical faculty;
9. Detailed curriculum “Infectious and parasitic diseases” for students of the 6th course in medical faculty and sphere of physical culture and sport;
10. Detailed curriculum “Infectious and parasitic diseases” for students of the 6th course in medical preventive faculty;
11. Detailed curriculum “Infectious and parasitic diseases” for students of the 6th course in medical psychological faculty;
12. Detailed curriculum for elective course “Clinical parasitology and tropical medicine”, 6th course;
13. Detailed curriculum for elective course “Actual problems of infectious diseases and HIV-infections”, 6th course;
14. Detailed curriculum “Infectious and parasitic diseases” for re-qualification of doctor-medical psychologist for medical specialty.
15. Detailed curriculum for elective course “Clinical parasitology and tropical medicine” for re-qualification of doctor-medical psychologist for medical specialty.
16. Detailed curriculum for elective course “Actual problems of infectious diseases and HIV-infection” for re-qualification of doctor-medical psychologist for medical specialty.
The theme-based plans for lectures and practical classes for students of the 4th, 5th, 6th courses are every year updated within 15% of existing curriculum according to the newest researches in infectology and actuality of some or other problems. The following elective courses are implemented for students of the 4th course “Actual problems of HIV-infection” and 6th courses “Actual problems of infectious diseases and HIV-infection” and “Clinical parasitology and tropical medicine”.
Many developments in methodological work of department are devoted to improvement of forms and methods for control of students’ knowledge. Thus, the written test tasks for current, intermediate and final control at practical classes were implemented for the first time among one-field departments.
Since 2003 the new form for written yearly essay for students of the 5th courses was implemented instead of traditional variant for clinical record, which enables students showing the creative initiative in establishment of situational tasks for preset topic and execution of answers about diagnosis, plan of examination, differential diagnosis and treatment.
The special attention is paid to improvement in forms and methods on final stage of control – final modular control (4th, 5th, 6th course) and state attestation, which is held in two stages in the 6th course – medical licensing examination KROK-2 (general medical care – 14.0513) and occupation-oriented exam in internal, occupational and infectious diseases.
Two-level system for check of knowledge and skills at students that consists of written test and written answers for a block of questions was implemented for final modular control in the 4th course in this year.
The multilevel system for check of knowledge and skills at students that consists of computer testing due to own original testing programs, written answers for a block of questions, which cover different infectious diseases due to mechanisms of transfer, and situational task, which enable checking the practical skills, exists for a long time for final modular control in the 5th course.
Since development and implementation of medical licensing exams “Krok-2, medical care” and “Krok-3”, the department constantly takes an active part in the work of commission at testing center for occupational competence of specialists with higher education with training direction “Medicine and pharmacy” for establishment and replenishments of bank for test tasks on academic discipline “Infectious diseases” and annual work of commission on professional expertise.
The contact with specialists- infectiologists, who passed through pre-graduate and post-graduate study at department, is not lost during many years. Their wishes are used in academic process.
