Medicine (master), 2022

Code and name of the specialty	222 Medicine
Educational degree	Master
Structural subdivision	medical faculty ІІ
Graduation department	Department of Internal Medicine No. 2, Clinical Immunology and Allergology named after Academician L.T. Malaya
Head of the Educational Programme	Ryndina Nataliya Gennadiivna
Implemented in action:	from 01.09.2022

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EPP “Medicine" (master). 2022

Ryndina Nataliya Gennadiivna

Doctor of Medical Science, Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine No. 2, Clinical Immunology and Allergology named after Academician L.T. Malaya

nh.ryndina@knmu.edu.ua

General information

Full name of the higher school and structural unit	Kharkiv National Medical University
Higher education degree and qualification name in the original language	second (Master’s) level of higher education, Medicine, based on the results of the state final exams, the following educational qualifications are awarded: Master of Medicine. Professional qualification: Doctor
Official name of the educational programme	Medicine
Type of diploma and scope of the educational programme	Master’s diploma, single, 360 ECTS credits ЄКТС, the term of training is 6 years
Availability of accreditation
Cycle/level	Second (Master’s) level / eighth qualification level of the National Qualification Framework
Prerequisites	Complete general secondary education
Language(s) of training	Ukrainian, English
Effective term of the Educational Programme	From 2020 till next revision
Internet address of the permanent place of description of the educational programme	meduniver@knmu.kharkov.ua

Purpose of the Educational Programme

Provision of training of the highly skilled doctor on the basis of academic training in fundamental and clinical biomedical sciences and preparation of graduates for their professional activity as doctors occupying their respective primary job position by means of acquisition of general and special competences, whose area of application is at least described by definite lists of syndromes, signs and symptoms of diseases, medical emergencies, physiological states and diseases, which require specific tactics in managing patients, laboratory and instrumental methods of examination, medical manipulations and involvement of labour, legal and military expert examinations.

Characteristic of the Educational Programme

Subject category (field of knowledge, speciality, specialization (if available))	Field – No. 22 “Health Care”; Speciality – No. 222 “Medicine”, muiltidisciplinary. It contains course units of general training (3.3 %), training in natural sciences (18.4 %) and professional training (52 %). Elective course units make up 25.3 %.
Orientation of the Educational Programme	Educational and Professional Programme of Master’s training has both academic and applied orientation
Main focal point of the Educational Programme and specialization	Special education in field No. 22 “Health Care” of Speciality No. 222 “Medicine”; knowledge of aspects of public health, diagnostics, treatment and prevention of diseases, required for carrying out professional activity Key words: medicine, doctor
Features of the Programme	Possible international mobility, including special practices; possible realization in the English language. This Educational Programme is coordinated with programmes in other countries; the experimental character of the educational programme is provided by the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education” in the context of academic autonomy

Eligibility of the graduates for employment and further studies

Eligibility for employment

The specialist is prepared to work in compliance with the Classification of Economic Activities DK 009:2010:
Section Q. Health Care and Rendering of Social Service
Division 86.1. Hospital activities
Group 86.10. Hospital activities
Class 86.21. General medical practice
Class 86.90. Other activity in the field of health care.
Doing of the professional work:
internship doctor (profession code – 3229),
junior doctor (profession code – 3221);
resident profession code – XXX);

Subsequent study

Internship training

Teaching and assessment

Teaching and assessment:
Student-centered training; self-education; problem-oriented rtaining with acquisition of competences, sufficient for solving problems in the professional field, training by means of clinical-laboratory practice, etc.

Assessment:

Grade (by the national scale)	Minimum score	Maximum score
National graded scale
180	180	200
150	150	179
120	120	149
0	0	119
National non-graded scale
120	120	200
0	0	119
60,5 %	60,5 %	100 %
0 %	0 %	60,4 %
ЕСТS scale
180	180	200
160	160	179
150	150	159
130	130	149
120	120	129
70	70	119
0	0	69

The grades “Excellent”, “Good” and “Satisfactory” are given on the basis of examinations and graded tests, by results of practical works. The grade “Credit” is given by results of tests. The result “Passed” is given on the basis of passing the integrated test examinations “Krok 1. General Medical Practice” and “Krok 2. General Medical Practice”, the objective structured practical (clinical) examination and the examination in the English language for special purpose.

Programme competences

Integral competence	Ability to cope with typical and difficult specialized tasks and practical problems in the professional activity in the field of health care or during the process of training, the above providing researches and/or innovations and being characterized by comprehensiveness and indefinite conditions and demands.
General competences (GC)	GC1 – Capacity for abstract thinking, analysis and synthesis; ability to study and be modernly trained GC2 – Capacity for using knowledge in practical situations GC3 – Knowledge and understanding of the subject field and understanding of the professional activity GC4 – Capacity for adapting and acting in a new situation GC5 – Capacities for making sound judgements and for working in a team; skills of interpersonal interaction GC6 – Capacity for communicating in the state language both in the oral and written forms; Capacity for communicating in a foreign language GC7 – Skills of using informative and communicative technologies GC8 – Certitude and persistence concerning set tasks and assumed responsibilities GC9 – Capacity for acting in the socially responsible and conscious way GC10 – Commitment to environmental conservation
Professional competences (PC)	PC1 – Skills of questioning PC2 – Capacity for determining the required list of laboratory and instrumental methods of examination and assessing their results PC3 – Capacity for making and initial and clinical diagnosis of the disease PC4 – Capacity for determining the required mode of work and rest and the character of diet in treatment of diseases PC5 – Capacity for determining the principles and character of treatment of diseases PC6 – Capacity for diagnosing medical emergencies PC7 – Capacity for determining the tactics and mastering of skills of providing emergency medical aid PC8 – Capacity for carrying out medical and evacuation measures. PC9 – Skills for carrying out medical manipulations PC10 – Capacity for determining the tactics of management of physiological pregnancy, physiological labour and postpartum period. Skills of consulting in issues of family planning and methods of contraception. PC11 – Capacity for planning and carrying out sanitary-hygienic, prophylactic and antiepidemic measures, including the above ones against infectious diseases PC12 – Capacity for determining the tactics in management of persons subject to regular medical check-ups PC13 – Capacity for carrying out expert examination of labour capacity PC14 – Capacity for keeping medical documents PC15 – Capacity for carrying out epidemiological and medical-statistical studies of the health of population; processing of state, social, economic and medical information PC16 – Capacity for assessing effects of environmental, socioeconomic and biological determinants on the state of human health in individuals, families and populations. PC17 – Capacity for analyzing the activity of a doctor, unit, health care institution, and for taking measures in order to provide quality and safety of medical aid and increase the efficacy of using medical resources PC18 – Capacity for taking measures aimed at organization and integration of provision of medical aid to people and marketing of medical services

Programme results of training (PRT)

Knowledge and understanding:
PRT 1 – to have general and special fundamental and profession-oriented knowledge, abilities, skills and competences required for carrying out typical professional tasks, which are associated with activity in the medical field in a particular position
PRT 2 – to have knowledge about psychophysiological peculiarities of human, human health, health support, prophylaxis of diseases, treatment of human, health of population

Use of knowledge and understanding:
PRT 3 – to apply the acquired knowledge, skills and understanding for performing typical tasks in the doctor’s activity, whose sphere of use is determined by lists of syndromes, signs and symptoms, diseases, medical emergencies, laboratory and instrumental methods of examination, medical manipulations
PRT 4 – to collect information about the patient
PRT 5 – to evaluate results of questioning, physical examination, data of laboratory and instrumental methods of examination
PRT 6 – to establish of an initial clinical diagnosis of a disease
PRT 7 – to determine the character and principles of treatment of diseases
PRT 8 – to determine the required diet, mode of work and rest in treating diseases
PRT 9 – to determine the tactics for managing the persons subject for regular medical check-ups
PRT 10 – to diagnose medical emergencies, determine tactics for provision of emergency medical aid
PRT 11 – to carry out sanitary-hygienic and prophylactic measures
PRT 12 – to plan prophylactic and antiepidemic measures against infectious diseases
PRT 13 – to carry out medical and evacuation measures
PRT 14 – to determine the tactics for management of physiological pregnancy and postpartum period
PRT 15 – to perform medical manipulations
PRT 16 –to assess environmental effects on the state of human health
PRT 17 – be able to keep medical documents and processing state, social and medical information

Formation of judgements:
PRT 18 –to assess the state of human health and provide its support with consideration of effects of the environment and other determinants of health
PRT 19 – to assess the sanitary-hygienic state of the environment for choosing sanitary-hygienic and prophylactic measures
PRT 20 – to apply the acquired knowledge about the current system of health care for optimization of one’s own professional activity and participation in performing practical tasks in the field
PRT 21 – to adhere to the ethical code of the doctor, which ensures the formation of a specialist with appropriate personal qualities
Educational components

Curriculum 2022

The list of normative components of the curriculum of EP “Medicine” of the specialty “Medicine” of the educational degree “master”:

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3rd year

4th year

5th year

6th year

The list of electoral components of the curriculum of EP “Medicine” of the specialty “Medicine” of the educational degree “master”:

1st year

2nd year

3rd year

4th year

5th year

6th year

Provision of resources for realization of the Programme

Human resourcing	The Programme is realized with involvement of the academic staff having scientific degrees of the Doctor of Medical Science, Candidate of Medical Science, academic ranks in professional subjects with the confirmed level of the scientific and professional activity.
Material and technical support	Provision with training premises, computer workplaces and multimedia equipment meet requirements. All required social and domestic infrastructure is available, the number of places in hostels meets requirements. The University has the academic and research complex “University Clinic”, the Research Institute of Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Diseases, the University Stomatological Centre, the Centre of Preclinical and Clinical Researches, the Centre of Gender Education, 4 fundamental research laboratories, the Anatomical Museum, the Vivarium, the Testing Centre, study rooms for simulation training (phantoms), the Central Research Laboratory of the University, the Scientific Training Institute for International Students, the Scientific Training Institute of Education Quality, 6 education-research-production units. KhNMU has 32 local computer networks and 55 Wi-Fi access points. Using of Internet is unlimited.
Information and methodological support	KhNMU has its official site http://www.knmu.kharkov.ua; its Scientific Library has the complete set of academic books in all course units (in the state, Russian and English languages). The web site of the Scientific Library http://libr.knmu.edu.ua provides a convenient remote access to various information resources; its electronic catalogue contains over 210,000 bibliographic descriptions including more than 2,200 references to full texts (textbooks, learning and teaching literature, materials of congresses and conferences, periodicals, etc.). The University has created and continuously enriches problem-oriented databases in the basic areas of its researches – “The Health of the Healthy”, “Minimally Invasive Interventions”, “Cardiovascular Diseases”, “Viral Bacterial Infections” – as well as in such challenging subjects as “Evidence-Based Medicine”, “Military Medicine” and “Ailments of the “Great Names of History”” (the full texts). The Repository of KhNMU is the first one among higher medical schools of Ukraine with a free access to learning, teaching and scientific materials; it numbers over 12,000 full text documents, including 1,300 learning, teaching and lecture materials. The inclusion of learning, teaching and lecture materials, rather than only scientific ones, into the Repository enables the students to study independently in the 24/7 mode. Databases, first of all of the biomedical specialization, include Medline, Cochrane Library, Academic Search Premier, Health Sourse, PubMed, DOAJ, Open J-Gate, BioOne, etc. By the programme of the project “Electronic Information for Libraries” (eIFL Direct) we are provided with free trial accesses to scientometrical databases Web of Science from Thomson Reuters publishing house, resources of East View Information Services, JSTOR Consortium of different foreign publishing houses, such as Royal Society Publishing, Nature, Academic Press, Springer International Publishing AG, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP Publishing) as well as to electronic versions of journals The New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatric Neurology Briefs, to journals and books of Elsevier, resources of Ovid Company – “Primal Interactive Human: the 3D Real-time Body” (multimedia interactive 3D human anatomy), Reactions Pharmacovigilance Insight, APA PsycINFO™, PsycTESTS, etc.; there is a web indicator of medical journals having interactive electronic links with electronic archives. All reading halls and those of electronic information work in the Wi-Fi area and provide a free access to Internet.

Academic mobility

National credit mobility	The agreements concluded for academic mobility provide exchange education of students within the framework of the Credit Transfer System with a possible transfer of credits (the scope of one credit is 30 hours)
International credit mobility	The agreements concluded for international academic mobility provide exchange education of students and interchangeability of test credits
Training of international applicants for higher education	Within the limits of the licensed scope of the speciality