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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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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    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