In 2006-2007, the staff members of NMAPE named after P.L.Shupyk performed important publishing activities including 10 textbooks, 51 educational manuals, 3 reference books and 2 guidelines authorized by the Central Methodological Department of Higher Medical Education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science.

Teaching and teaching-methodological manuals were created in hematology, dermatovenereology, nephrology, medico-legal expertise, otorhinolaryngology and pediatric otorhinolaryngology, dentistry, pediatrics etc.

In 2006-2007, the specialists of the Center of Distance Education in cooperation with the staff members of the Department of Medical Informatics improved the principles and technologies of formalization, knowledge transmission and monitoring, didactic techniques of distance education, development of technological equipment and soft ware which provided required conditions for effective implementation of distance education elements in postgraduate medical education.

The Center technological equipment provides the possibility of transmitting and obtaining teaching information, multimedia presentations and “live” video-image both by ordinary land Internet channels both by high quality satellite channel.

The activity of the Center meets new requirements appearing in the context of Ukraine integration into Bologna process. The Center offers progressive forms of performing both separate lectures and important parts of courses of Topical Advanced Training and Precertification training courses.

On 15–16 February 2007, a Scientific and Methodological Conference with international participation “Problems of Continuous Professional Development of Physicians and Pharmacists” was held in NMAPE named after P.L.Shupyk. Owing to developed innovation technologies a videocommunication with 5 higher educational institutions of Ukraine, 4 regional health care centers, 2 diagnostic centers, 2 establishments of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine as well as with the studio of International Medical Programs Inc. (New York city, USA) was performed.

On 15–17 March, a distance scientific and practical conference with international participation “Current Issues of Distance Education and Telemedicine” was held by NMAPE named after P.L.Shupyk in cooperation with Zaporizhia State Medical University.

In May, for the first time, a full time and by correspondence course in dentistry with elements of distance education for stomatology specialists of Zakarpattia region was held.

Within the frame of the course a distance knowledge monitoring of trainees was performed at the beginning (entrance) and the end (exit) of the training course. Conducted entrance monitoring allowed one to identify the trainees, real knowledge level, to distribute them into homogeneous academic groups, to focus teachers’ attention on more actual and problem specialty issues as well as to familiarize oneself with and to overcome indetermination regarding technological problems of testing (namely: the principles of the program work, adaptation to the form of presentation of questions and answers etc.)

Nowadays, scientific work on the development of unified platform for holding teleconferences in cooperation with american specialists is being performed.

Realizing Bologna declaration regulations in NMAPE named after P.L.Shupyk

National Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education named after P.L.Shupyk of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine has started organizational, informational and methodological activities for improving educational process and putting it in conformity with a credit-transfer system of organizing education at higher schools (ECTS — European Credit Transfer System) admitted by numerous European counties in order to implement the decree of the President of Ukraine of 17.02.2004 N100/2004 "About measures for improving the system of higher education in Ukraine", the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of 23.01.04 N49 "About approval of measures for realizing Bologna declaration regulations in the System of higher education and science of Ukraine for 2004–2005", the order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine of 22.03.2004 w 148 "About measures for realizing Bologna declaration regulations in the system of higher medical and pharmaceutical education", the resolution of the Board of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine of 12.05.04 N5 "About further measures for improving the activities of higher medical (pharmaceutical) schools and institutions of post-graduate education", the order of the rector of NMAPE, Associate Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Professor Yu.V.Voronenko of 15.04.2004 N761 "About realizing Bologna Declaration regulations in training post-graduates and masters in medical and pharmaceutical specialization", with the purpose of approximating international requirements for professional training of specialists at a post-graduate period of higher medical education.

ECTS implementing will create conditions for realizing a free choice of individual educational trajectory which is determined by an individual curriculum, which is extremely important for completing the full higher medical (pharmaceutical) education taking into consideration a definite direction of future professional activities.

A plan of measures for implementing Bologna declaration regulations in organizing a teaching and learning process at the NMAPE departments has been approved and it is being realized. A scientific-methodological seminars devoted to the issues of implementing educational credits (ECTS) and credit-module organization of teaching process. A rubric "Bologna process in medicine" has been open in the library card indexes. A Thematic literature exhibition "Bologna process and post-graduate medical education" has been organized.

A seminar "Evidence-Based Medicine and Bologna process" was held, where Professor O.P.Mintser delivered a lecture. The development of evidence-based medicine methodology is in progress: special sections at annual conferences “Information technologies in public health and practical medicine” devoted to the problems of family medicine were organized; an Advanced Training Course in evidence-based medicine was held where 51 specialists were trained; scientific popularization of evidence-based principles is being widely carried out through the newspaper “Vashe zdorovye”, medical journals, at courses conducted in other institutions.

Proposals regarding a multilevel system of medical education improvement in Ukraine have been elaborated and presented to the Central Methodological Board for higher medical education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine with the participation of the NMAPE problem-research laboratory for the issues of post-graduate education of doctors in boards Bolona process.

Propositions concerning a distance education in the system of post-graduate education as well as curricula of topical advanced training of teachers have been elaborated: "Distance medical education" and "Organization of distance pharmaceutical education". In conformity of the rector of the Academy of 25.01.2006 #107 according to the resolution of joint meeting of the Conference of staff members and the Academic Board of the 18.01.2006, Protocol №1 regulations on scientifical, educational, methodological Centre of distance education of NMAPE were approved. For the first time in Ukraine, an Advanced Training Course “Basics of theory and methodology of professional education” for professors and teachers from Zaporizhzhya were carried out; in comformity with the EC Project, a distance monitoring of knowledge of managers of public health establishments concerning current issues of modern management was conducted; a standard platform for using TV channels in order to transmit informations was developed. By the Department of Medical Informatics one-month advanced training courses "Distance medical education" carry out.

The working-out of methodological materials on further reformation of continuing professional education of physicians and pharmaceutists is in progress. In that direction, there were worked out: a conception project of postgraduate medical education and continuing professional development; a status project on continuing professional development and certification of doctors’ professional competency; a status project on the department where interns are trained; a status project on clinical base for intern physicians’ traineeship, curricula and syllabi of Adwanced Training courses for professional and teaching staff of higher medical schools and managers of public health system; “Continuing medical education of physicians and pharmaceutists in the context of Bologna process” (78 academic hours); “Basics of theory and methodology of professional education” (1 month).

Novel developments, major directions, achievement in methodological activities

Advanced training courses for professorial-teaching staff “Higher Medical Education and Bologna Process” for teachers of postgraduate educations institutions were held at the NMAPE named after P.L.Shupyk in 2005.

These courses are conducted according to a curriculum and a program approved by the Ministry of Health of  Ukraine. For adaptation of this program to requirements for postgraduate education, a curriculum and a program for Advanced Training course “Continuing Medical Education for physicians and pharmaceutists in the context of Bologna Process” were developed by the Department of Medical Informatics (subdivision of pedagogics and psychology) (the course is designed for 78 academic hours).

The performance of corresponding courses is planned in 2006 as well.

In addition, a curriculum and a program for the coursed Advanced Training “Basics of Theory and Technology of Professional Education” (1 month duration) were developed by the Department of Medical Informatics (subdivision of pedagogics and Psychology).

The program is formulated according to a module – credit principle in conformity with the requirements of Bologna process (for faculty members of higher medical schools and managers for health care system).

Innovative activities:

Scientific work:

for the first time it has been suggested —

·           electronic medical passport,

·           automatic distance certification system

Scientific and Technological Activities:

for the first time it has been suggested —

·           creation of a system of multivariant distance education for physicians and pharmaceutists;

·           development of a system of distance trainees knowledge assessment taking into consideration the requirements of Bologna format;

·           teacher’s automatic working place in pharmaceutical subjects;

·           trainee’s electronic passport in postgraduate medical education system;

·           using express-method of kirlian - graphic estimation of the human functional condtion.

Scientific-Pedagogical Activities:

for the first time it has been suggested —

·           creation of adaptive block – module self education system for providing a fixed level of education quality;

·           system of educational assistance in teaching the aspects of financing health care establishments in the Departments of public health management and social medicine at higher medical schools of Ukraine;

·           principles of distance knowledge transmission;

·           program for training in speciality “medical law”.

Scientific and Organizational Innovations:

NMAPE named after P.L.Shupyk Center of Distance Education started its work in summer of 2005; activities directions —

·           distance education;

·           development of principles and Technologies of distance education;

·           improving principles and technologies of knowledge formalization;

·           improving principles of knowledge transmission and monitoring;

·           approbation of technological facilities and software for implementing distance education in higher medical schools of Ukraine.

Implementing principles of distance education

For the first time, in Europe, a séance of distance education concerning the problems of diagnosing and treating tuberculosis with the participation of scientists and specialists from the USA, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine has been conducted. Ukraine was represented by the specialists of the NMAPE named after P.L.Shupyk and Zaporizky State Medical University, Institute of Phthisiology and Pulmonology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.

Implementation of Principles of Distance Education:

·           for the first time, a  course of Advanced Training for teachers of Zaporizky State Medical University has been conducted in Ukraine;

·           for the first time, a distance knowledge  monitoring of managers of health care establishments has been carried out in Ukraine;

·           for the first time, a model platform for using TV channels for information transmitting has been developed in Ukraine.

Topical Advanced Training Courses introduced by NMAPE Departments:

1.        «Current TORCH-infection problems» (78 academic hours) – Dept of virology

2.        «Functional diagnosis in cardiology»  (1 month) – Dept. of Cardiology and Functional Diagnosis

3.        «Physiology and pathology of premature infants» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Neonatology

4.        «Medico-social rehabilitation of Children with limited health abilities» (1 month) – Dept. of Children’s Neurology and Medico-Social Rehabilitation

5.        «Continuing Medical education of physicians and pharmaceutics in the context of Bologna process» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Medical Informatics, Pedagogics and Psychology Subdivision

6.        «Good laboratory practice in state laboratories for drug quality analysis» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

7.        «Auxiliary reproductive technologies in treating sterility» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology

8.        «Vertebral osteochondrosis. Vertebrogenic arthropathies (Diagnosis and treatment)» (1 month) – Dept. of Orthopedics and Traumatology - 1

9.        «Open bone and joint damages» (1 month) – Dept. of Orthopedics and Traumatology - 1

10.    «Deforming arthrosis of large joints. Endoprosthetics» (1 month) – Dept. of Orthopedics and Traumatology-1

11.    «Knee joint diseases and traumata. Arthroscopy» (1 month) – Dept. of Orthopedics and Traumatology-1

12.    «Current issues of immunodeficiency conditions in children» (1 month) – Dept. of Pediatric Infectioux Diseases and Pediatric Immunology

13.    «Hygiene of water supply, water works and ground» (1 month) – Dept. of Human Ecology and Hygiene

14.    «Pathological anatomy of obstetric – gynecological diseases» (1,5 month) – Dept. of Pathological and Topographic Anatomy

15.    «Diseases of peripheral nervous system» (1 month) – Dept. of Neurology and Reflexotherapy

16.    «The essentials of vascular surgery for general surgeons» (1 month) – Dept. of Surgery and Combustiology

17.    «Basics of Laparoscopic Surgery» (1 month) – Dept. of Surgery and Combustiology

18.    «Current issues of endocrine surgery» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Surgery and Proctology

19.    «Craniosacral therapy in medical rehabilitation, I and III cure» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Medical Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy and Health Resort Cure

20.    «Current issues of obstetrics and gynecology (for family physicians)» (1,5 month) – Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology - 1

21.    «Current issues of obstetrics and gynecology for military physicians)» (1 month) – Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology - 1

22.    «Current issues of obstetrics of gerontology and Geriatrics» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Therapy and Geriatrics

23.    «Eye Microsurgery by using methods of artificial lens implantation and phacoemulcification» (1 month) – Dept. of Ophthalmology

24.    «Current issues of Ophthalmology» (1 month) – Dept. of Ophthalmology

25.    «Current issues of emergency conditions medicine» (1 month) – Dept. of Medicine of Emergency Conditions

26.    «Hygienic estimation of physical factors» (1 month) – Dept. of Human Hygiene and Ecology

27.    «Occupational Hygiene in agriculture» (1 month) – Dept. of Human Ecology and Hygiene

28.    «24-hour monitoring of ECG and arterial pressure in diagnosing and assessing therapeutic Effectiveness of cardiological diseases» (1 month) – Dept. of Cardiology and Functional Diagnosis

29.    «Medico-social rehabilitation of children with limited health abilities» (1 month) – Dept. of Pediatric Neurology and Medico-Social Rehabilitation

30.    «Medico-social rehabilitation of children with limited health abilities» (1 month) – Dept. of Pediatric Neurology and Medico-Social Rehabilitation

31.    «Psychotherapy in Doctor-Psychiatrist’s clinical practice» (1 month) – Dept. of Psychiatry

32.    «Intervention radiology» (1 month) – Dept. of Radiology

33.    «Computer tomography» (1 month) – Dept. of Radiology

34.    «Magneto-resonance tomography» (1 month) – Dept. of Radiology

35.    «Using radionuclide and ultrasound methods in clinical diagnosis» (1 month; 1.5 month) – Dept. of Radiology

36.    «Antiretroviral therapy and other aspects of Hiv-infection and AIDS treatment in children» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Pediatric Infectious diseases and Pediatric Immunology

37.    «Optometry and Contact correction» (1 month) – Dept. of Ophthalmology

38.    «Peculiarities of managerial work of pharmaceutic establishments in current conditions» (1 month) – Dept. of Management and pharmacy economics

39.    «Drug quality control» (1 month) – Dept. of Industrial Pharmacy

40.    «Industrial pharmacy» (1 month) – Dept. of Industrial Pharmacy

41.    «Industrial drugs technology» (1 month) – Dept. of Industrial Pharmacy

42.    «Colposcopy and inflammatory diseases in gynecology» (1 month) – Dept. of obstetrics and gynecology - 1

43.    «Selected issues of sanology» (1 month) – Dept. of Sports Medicine and Sanology

44.    «Lysosomic diseases» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Medical genetics

45.    «Perinatal nathology and emergency conditions in an early neonatal period» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Neonatology

46.    «Current issues of neonatology» (1 month) – Dept. of Neonatology

47.    «Artificial lung ventilation in neonate children» (1 month) – Dept. of Neonatology

48.    «Manual therapy» (1 month) – Dept. of Orthopedics and Traumatology - 2

49.    «Propedeutics of mental diseases» (1 month) – Dept. of Pediatric, Social and Forensic Psychiatry

50.    «New drugs of national and foreign manufacturing» (1 month) – Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

51.    «Pathologic and premorbid conditions in sportsmen» (1 month) – Dept. of Sports Medicine and Sanology

52.    «Ultrasound diagnosis in obstetrics and gynecology» (1 month) – Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction

53.    «Basics of Phoniatry and phonopedy» (1 month; 78 academic hours) – Dept. of Otolaryngology

54.    «Pancreatic diseases in children and adolescents, current algorithms of diagnosing and treating» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of children and teenager diseases

55.    «Current algorithms of treating children and teenagers» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of children and Teenagers diseases

56.    «Hematologic methods of investigation» (1,5 month) – Dept. of Clinical Laboratory Diagnosis

57.    «Anemias» (for faculty members of medical universities and medical academies of postgraduate education)» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Hematology and Transfusiology

58.    «Craniosacral therapy in medical rehabilitation — II–IV course» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Medical Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy and Health Resort Cure

59.    «Neurology of early children age» (1 month) – Dept. of Pediatric Neurology and Medico-Social Rehabilitation

60.    «Business undertakings and finance management in health care» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Health Care Management

61.    «Pathologic anatomy of infectious diseases» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Pathologic and Topographic Anatomy

62.    «Microscopic biopsy diagnosis (special oncomorphology)» (1 month) – Dept. of Pathologic and Topographic Anatomy

63.    «Safety motherhood – the concept of modern obstetrics» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction

64.    «HIV transmission prevention from mother to a newborn infant» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction

65.    «Current perinatal technologies of caring, nursing and treating newborn children» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Neonatology

66.    «Current issues in neurology» (1 month) – Dept. of Neurology - 1

67.    «Pediatric aspects of family doctor practice» (1 month) – Dept. of Pediatrics - 1

68.    «Hygienic requirements for stay conditions of children in educational, curative and sanitary establishments» (78 academic hours; 1 month) – Dept. of Food Hygiene and Hygiene of Children and Teenagers

69.    «Basics of theory and technology of professional education» (78 academic hours) – Dept. of Medical Informatics

Curricula and Programs for courses of traineeship of physicians who confirm the title «Specialist physician» according to a speciality:

1.       «Orthopedics and Traumatology» (1 month) – Dept. of Orthopedics and Traumatology

2.       «Analytic and control Pharmacy» (1 month) – Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

3.       «Infectious diseases» (1 month) – Dept. of Infectious Diseases

4.       «Psychiatry» (1 month) – Dept. of Psychiatry

5.       «Occupational Hygiene» (1 month) – Dept. of Human Ecology and Hygiene

6.       «General Hygiene» (1 month) – Dept. of Human Ecology and Hygiene

7.       «Nephrology» (1 month) – Dept. of Nephrology

8.       «Pediatric nephrology» (1 month) – Dept. of Nephrology

9.       «Ultrasound diagnosis» (1 month) – Dept. of Radiology

10.   «Roentgenology» (1 month) – Dept. of Radiology

11.   «Bacteriology» (1 month) – Dept. of Microbiology and Epidemiology

12.   «Communal Hygiene» (1 month) – Dept. of Human Ecology and Hygiene

13.   «Pharmacy Management and Organization» (1 month) – Dept. of Pharmacy Management and Organization

14.   «Pathologic Anatomy» (1 month) – Dept. of Pathologic Anatomy

15.   «Dermatovenereology» (1 month) – Dept. of Dermatovenereology

16.   «Pediatric dermatovenereology» (1 month) – Dept. of Dermatovenereology

17.   «Pediatric endocrinology» (1 month) – Dept. of Endocrinology

18.   «Medicolegal expertise» (1 month) – Dept. of Forensic Medicine

19.   «Epidemiology» (1 month) – Dept. of Microbiology and Epidemiology

20.   «Virology» (1 month) – Dept. of Virology

21.   «Food Hygiene» (1 month) – Dept. of Food Hygiene and Hygiene of Children and Adolescents

22.   «Children and Adolescents’ Hygiene » (1 month) – Dept. of Food Hygiene and Hygiene of Children and Adolescents