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      <Title language="en">Medical Education in Ukraine</Title>
      <TitleAlternative>Reality and motion to European higher Educational space</TitleAlternative>
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          <Lastname>Kovalchik</Lastname>
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          <Firstname>L.Ya.</Firstname>
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        <Address>Ternopil State Medical University, Maydan Voli 1, Ternopil, Ukraine<Affiliation>Ternopil State Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine</Affiliation></Address>
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          <Firstname>N. Ye</Firstname>
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          <Firstname>I. Ye</Firstname>
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        <Address>Ternopil State Medical University, Maydan Voli 1, Ternopil, Ukraine<Affiliation>Ternopil State Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine</Affiliation></Address>
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          <Corporatename>German Medical Science GMS Publishing House</Corporatename>
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        <Address>Düsseldorf</Address>
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      <SubjectheadingDDB>610</SubjectheadingDDB>
      <SectionHeading language="de">10. Grazer Konferenz 11.-13.05.2006, Wien</SectionHeading>
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    <DateReceived>20070111</DateReceived>
    <DatePublishedList><DatePublished>20070523</DatePublished></DatePublishedList>
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        <ISSN>1860-3572</ISSN>
        <Volume>24</Volume>
        <Issue>2</Issue>
        <JournalTitle>GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung</JournalTitle>
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      <MainHeadline>Beitrag</MainHeadline><Pgraph>Ukraine is making real steps to the European union. The establishing of the new structural conception of Ternopil State Medical University by I.Ya. Horbachevsky in June 2005 was the first step in reformation. The faculty staff of the University started to introduce the principles of the Bologna declaration into educational process. A substantial amount of work is to be done. Some important steps have already been taken: introduction lectures on evidence-based medicine and creditmodule system has been organized for the teaching staff, postgraduate and doctoral students; permanent committees for implementing the mentioned principles into educational process have been organized. We are working on the development of modules for the first 3-years course syllabi, creating individual programs of study for students and standardized rating process. A huge internationalization work is being implemented. Agreements for academic exchange with European universities have been signed. The teachers of University have the ability to learn the peculiarities of curriculum in Vienna Medical University, Charles University in Prague. The programs of studies in Nursing were mastered in Mary Black School of the Un. of SC-Upstate, USA. </Pgraph><Pgraph>Thus, it is the essentially to carry out the competent reforms of higher medical and pharmaceutical education, approaching the international demands of training the doctors. It will guarantee the entering of higher medical education of Ukraine into the European educational space.</Pgraph></TextBlock>
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