Updated Master’s program “Management in Healthcare” at NaUKMA

Congratulations on the start of the updated Master’s program, “Management in Healthcare.” 

This year, a record number of applicants applied for the program – more than three people per place. As a result, we have a group of 25 bright and ambitious students!

14 of them received full or partial scholarships to pay for their studies thanks to us and the program’s partners:

• CF “Together for Ukraine”, 
• CF “Patients of Ukraine”, 
• NGO “Agency for Legislative Initiatives”/Ukrainian School of Political Studies, 
• Global Medical Knowledge Alliance,
• and private patrons. 

First, the new students were congratulated by the President of NaUKMA, Serhiy Kvit, and the Dean of the Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Work of NaUKMA Svitlana Oksamytna.

The program teachers shared their expectations and work plans: Tetiana Chernysh, Ph.D., Head of the Project Office of the Ukrainian-Swiss Medical Education Development Project, Associate Professor, Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at NaUKMA and co-founders of the Ukrainian Healthcare Centre (UHC), Pavlo Kovtoniuk, Natalia Ryabtseva and Matvii Khrenov.

The course’s first lecture, “Healthcare Systems and Governance,” was delivered by Pavlo Kovtoniuk and a guest lecturer, the first head of the National Health Service of Ukraine, Oleh Petrenko. Arsen Zhumadilov, director of the Armed Forces Resource Support Agency, will also be a guest lecturer at the course. 

Today, students will listen to the Fundamentals of Public Health Thinking with Yulia Vernyhor, a senior lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

The students’ enthusiasm will be enough for two years of study! Just look at them. In the future, they have to bring to life the knowledge they have gained into bold and effective healthcare solutions.

Mariia Kukushkina, head of the Oncodermatology Centre at the Dobrobut Medical Network and a student, shared her first impression with us: 

“I am studying with specialists of different specialities, and only some are medical workers. We are of different ages and have different professional and personal experiences. The teaching staff is just cosmic. The program is exciting and varied, although the issues for discussion are sometimes unexpected. And today, I had the opportunity to meet my colleagues whom I had only met on social media.”