Review article
CURRENT CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS IN TEACHING PATHOPHYSIOLOGY IN UKRAINE – ANOTHER REACTION TO CHURILOV'S PAPER
Oleksandr V. Ataman
orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-740X
; Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology with course of Medical Biology, Medical Institute, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
Abstract
Pathophysiology in Ukraine has rich traditions and achievements in the scientific areas, as well as in teaching academic
discipline. Its history, the main Ukrainian scientific schools and their famous representatives are briefly described. The content of
existing study program, the main approaches to teaching, and some methodological and organizational problems needed to be
solved are characterized. The necessity and usefulness of developing and implementing the three separate courses of discipline
(Essential, Clinical and Advanced Pathophysiology) are substantiated. The place of Pathophysiology in the training of physicians
with different kinds of their future activity is discussed. Relation of teaching Pathophysiology to Translational and Personalized
Medicine is tried to be shown.
Keywords
history of medicine; medical education; pathophysiology; clinical pathophysiology; translational medicine; personalized medicine
Hrčak ID:
263967
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Publication date:
13.9.2017.
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