We continue to strengthen the capacity of medical schools

This week, we worked at training with educators and representatives of the administration of Andriy Krupynsky Lviv Medical Academy and Zhytomyr Medical Institute, exchanging knowledge and experience on how to implement projects through understanding clients.

In 2021, our pilot HEIs formed teams, chose an idea that would improve medical education, formalized it into projects, and began training at our management and project management trainings.

Now the teams are improving activities within the HEI: implementing information and analytical networks, developing new educational programs, creating a space for non-formal education for students, and bringing many more valuable changes:

Lviv Medical Academy team projects:

• information and analytical network of the academy: tools, synchronization, and adaptation,
• integrated inclusive education in the educational space of medical education institutions,
• acquisition and certification of particular professional competencies for nurses.

Projects of the Zhytomyr Medical Institute team:

• non-formal education space EduSpace,
• development of a communication strategy to attract motivated applicants.

So, at this week’s training, we learned how the participants implement projects. And the trainers Mychailo Wynnyckyj, sociologist and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and Matviy Khrenov, co-founder of the Ukrainian Healthcare Center (UHC), Advisor to the Minister of Health (2018-2020), provided feedback and shared tools for effective management.

Working on projects often involves interaction with people who have different professional backgrounds. Understanding that team members have different approaches to performing tasks is essential. For effective project implementation, it is necessary to set everyone up for teamwork. Just remember how a symphony orchestra plays harmoniously with more than 40 musicians with completely different musical instruments. Everyone knows what tact to enter with their part, and the leader-conductor directs and corrects the team’s actions.

So our coaches helped the teams to improve their projects by modeling the following cases:

• cooperation, situational leadership, and the role of the leader in the team,
• team building and components of a successful empowered nurse training program in a medical university,
• understanding the difference between consumers and clients as the basis for the formation of a communication strategy and the foundation for resolving conflict situations between teachers and students,
• preventive actions of the management regarding the negative experience of students in the HEI,
• how the HEI management should develop young talents and internal communications within the team,
• effective management of HEI digitalization, areas of responsibility, attitude, and interaction with external developers.

Also, before the event, we asked the participants to watch the comedy series “Ted Lasso,” which shows real-life cases with excellent management decisions and devoted a session to the tools that best help to reveal people’s talents. We invite you to watch the series → https://apple.co/3EC63Ft.

We share some feedback from the participants of the training:

• “Thanks to the training, we revised the communication logic in the context of the distribution of responsibilities within the team.”
• “Constructive criticism made it possible to see the gaps and understand the next steps in changing our project for its implementation.”
• “You don’t need to think in patterns; you should look wider. It helps a lot in solving problems”.

We are always happy when we can help you improve your projects, so to be continued, stay tuned!