University of Rochester sends staff to Ukraine to demonstrate teaching (06/15/97)

University of Rochester sends staff to Ukraine to demonstrate teaching

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - For the fourth consecutive semester, the University of Rochester (UR) Medical Education Partnership and Training Project is sending faculty and residents to five cities in Ukraine and Russia to demonstrate the ward team teaching model.

Participating physicians are rotating from three separate U.S. schools involved in the partnership project: UR, Yale University and the State University of New York at Syracuse. The faculty and residents spend approximately two to three weeks at Russian or Ukrainian medical schools, leading ward teams composed of local medical students and interns. The U.S. visitors give lectures in their specialties and discuss the interactive teaching models that represent the core of U.S. medical education.

Three faculty and one resident elected to rotate to Ukrainian partnership medical schools. Dr. Borys Buniak, assistant professor of medicine, SUNY/Syracuse, visited Kyiv on April 7-18. Dr. Chloe Alexson, professor of pediatrics, UR, worked in Kyiv from April 14 to May 6. Dr. Ruth Hart, clinical professor of emergency medicine, SUNY/Syracuse, is teaching taught Medical Academy on May 12-24.Dr. David Fanion, second- year resident of emergency medicine, SUNY/Syracuse, rotated to Dnipropetrovsk on May 12-24.

As a result of the Medical Education Partnership and Training project and the teaching skills of the faculty who have rotated to Ukraine and Russia during the last two years, all five Russian and Ukrainian partnership schools have begun introducing the ward team teaching model into their curriculum.

The UR Medical Education Partnership and Training Project with Russia and Ukraine, which started in March 1995, will complete its partnership activities with a conference in Kyiv. Approximately 60 people will attend the "Next-Steps" conference in this year, which will include UR project staff, on-site project staff, faculty, interns and students from each of the five Ukrainian and the Russian partnership schools, representatives from the ministries of health, and representatives of other medical schools in Russia and Ukraine.

The goals of the "Next-Steps" conference are to review the major accomplishments of the two-year project and to present specific results. This will include statistical data and results of the first round of standardized tests that were written as part of the Partnership Project and specific accomplishments regarding the curriculum development workshops and the implementation of innovative teaching methodologies that are based on core U.S. medical education teaching models.

Conference participants will also discuss the continuation of the standardized testing workshops, and the future of curriculum development workshops and the innovative teaching methodologies in each partnership school, as well as the Medical Learning and Testing Centers that have been developed in each country.

The Partnership Project was sponsored by the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) and administered by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX).

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