Educational work of the Department of Internal Medicine

Educational work of the Department is one of the priority directions of its activity. Teaching of students in 4 disciplines is conducted at the Department. Total amount of academic work is more than 21000 academic hours.

Students are trained at the Department in accordance with the recommendations of typical disciplines’ programs approved by The Ministry of Health (MOH) and The Ministry of Education and Science (MES) of Ukraine and improved within regulated standards by the Department’s staff.


The educational process at the Department is carried out using modern multimedia and computer technologies, a sufficient amount of visual materials with the active involvement of students in the clinical and scientific work of the Department, and also with the use of innovative approaches to the educational process.

Because of the fact that the study at the Department is carried out on the basis of the Kharkiv Clinical Hospital No. 1 on the railway transport and the Kharkiv city polyclinic No.24 students have the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of modern diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. This makes it possible to deepen and improve knowledge in conditions maximum close to real.

Students with their teachers take part inclinical examination of patients, therapeutic and diagnostic procedures in real clinical cases, participate in clinical case analysis, symposia, seminars, consultations. Thus they receive the valuable clinical and practical experience during their training at the Department.

Particular attention is attended to the process of preparing students for the licensing exam test KROK 2. It is possible due to the analysis of tests of all available databases, software expressly designed for the School of Medicine, computer labs and multimedia equipment, internet systems of distant training and supervision of the knowledge level, face-to-face and online preparation for KROK 2 by teachers during the whole period of the study with an even distribution of the test load on students.

During study process the teachers select and train the best students who takes part in all-Ukrainian Olympiads, competitions, conferences, congresses, etc. There medical students annually win prizes and certificates and are encouraged with certificates and marks of distinction.

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