The third episode of the podcast “Tangible med education”

Listen to the third episode of the podcast “Tangible med education,” which we recorded with Volodymyr Khodorovsky, head of the department of the sector for monitoring the quality of education and information and analytical support of the Bukovinian State Medical University (BSMU).
By the way, Mr. Volodymyr graduated from BSMU 20 years ago, so in the conversation, you will hear many reflections on how medical education has changed over the years.

In the meantime, we will give a little insight into the professional experience of the podcast host. In addition to being a sociologist, trainer, and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Mychailo Wynnyckyj worked as the head of the secretariat of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance for three years. That is why in the podcast’s third episode, you will hear an interesting conversation about the concept of quality in medical education, accreditation, and training of medical specialists → https://li.sten.to/lczssaxw. 

More specifically, the conversation in this episode will revolve around the following theses:

• What is quality in medical education, and who forms it?
• What should be the professional and humanitarian training of doctors?
• Is this year’s reduction of the External Independent Testing (EIT) passing score criterion to 100 for medical university entrants a sign of regression in medical education?
• Do students study to become doctors or pass the “Krok” Medical Licensing Exam?
• What changes have occurred in medical education over the last 20 years, and what changes have happened during the previous seven months of the full-scale invasion?
• What exactly can medical gowns and scrub caps symbolize for future medical workers?
• Does modern medical education allow students to understand how to work with errors? How exactly does simulation training helps to work with mistakes?
• Finally, how does higher medical education reflect society?

At the end of this issue, you will find our new column, “MZS,” aka evidence-based medicine, led by Dmytro Huliayev, head of publishing, research, and education projects, at the NGO “Ukrainian Anti-Stroke Association.” This time, Dmytro explains the fundamental difference between the wording “evidential medicine” and “evidence-based medicine.”

The podcast “Tangible med education” was created by the Ukrainian-Swiss project “Medical Education Development” team in cooperation with The Ukrainians podcast studio.