scholarly journals The Quality Whirlwind in the Higher Medical Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6Bis) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nino Chikhladze
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Higher Medical Education

Globalize World demands to realize Higher Education for making most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Higher Education is an important factor in further enhancing research in underpinning Higher Education for the economic and cultural development of our societies and for social cohesion. The effort to introduce structural change and improve the quality of teaching should not detract from the effort to strengthen research and innovation. Ministers meeting in Berlin in September 2003 added an Action Line to the Bologna process entitled "European Higher Education Area and European Research Area "“ two pillars of the knowledge based society" that underlines the key role of research training in this context. Bergen Communique (2005) has chosen 3 priorities including quality assurance (internal/external quality assurance) and appealed to,, Strengthen research, innovation, emphasize the importance of research and research-training''. In London Communique (2007) is marked that,, Higher Education Institutions should continue to develop their internal system of quality assurance''. The task of Higher Medical Education everywhere is the provision of Health Care. Notwithstanding variations, there is a high degree of equivalence of structure, process, and product of medical school worldwide. Research is an integral part of Higher Medical Education: increasing the role and relevance of research to technological, social and cultural evolution and to the needs of Society.

Qualification Frameworks and Field-specific Approaches to Quality Assurance

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Giuliano Augusti ◽  
Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Degree Structure

“General” and “field-specific” Quality Assurance procedures, although sharing many “technical” instruments (self evaluation reports, peer reviews, benchmarks vs. reference points, etc.), have different directions. The motivations behind “field-specific” initiatives are critically presented in this paper. They are strictly correlated with Qualification Frameworks that, while preserving the autonomy of higher education institutions in defining their teaching offers, define common and transparent employability objectives for the benefit of students, graduates and all other stakeholders. However, “while learning outcomes have been generically defined for the degree structure”, it is now necessary “to further develop descriptors for subject specific knowledge, skills and competences. ... leaving still plenty of freedom for programme diversity.” (Bologna Process, 2009a). Qualification Frameworks and field-specific Quality Assurance lead naturally to “pre-professional accreditation” that can be given an international value by “European Quality Labels”.

scholarly journals Accreditation of educational activities in the aspect of international quality assurance standards

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 04005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Tabishev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Russian State ◽  
European Standards ◽  
State Accreditation ◽  
State Educational

The article considers the peculiarities of the Russian national educational space and legislation in the aspect of international (European) standards of quality assurance of higher education ESG (European Standards and Guidelines). The official materials and statistical data of the Executive Agency for Educational and Cultural Programs of the European Commission, given in the final report on the realization and implementation of the principles of the Bologna Process “The European Higher Education Area in 2018”, are analyzed. The main points where the procedures of the Russian state accreditation of educational activities in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education (FSES HE) and the European international (professional-public) accreditation of standards and recommendations for quality assurance of higher education in the European space ESG are reflected and their main distinguishing features are indicated.

Quality Assurance on the Road: Finland and Austria in Comparison

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Road ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Education Market ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Higher Education Market

The ongoing necessity for quality and quality assurance in the entire Bologna process remains one of the main issues for European policy makers. The aims of creating comparable systems and of guaranteeing quality within higher education systems are the reasons for national developments and the eagerness to reform. The situation in two relatively small European countries, Austria and Finland, is at the centre of this research and exemplifies different ways of coping with international developments and the need to establish a comprehensive quality assurance system. How do these countries cope with the pressure to compete in the global higher education market? Is their system of quality assurance in line with the European aim to create a European higher education area? The purpose of this study is to provide an overview on two national quality assurance systems and to figure out similarities and differences between these two countries, providing a clear picture of what has been done in the field of quality assurance, where the challenges to transform are and how to improve quality assurance systems.

scholarly journals NURSES EDUCATION AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS IN MEDICAL COLLEGE IN EMERGENCY SITUATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Livija Jankovska ◽  
Velta Lubkina ◽  
Liga Danilane
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Higher Medical Education ◽  
Present Emergency

Transformation of medical education in Latvia is connected to new requirements which are focused on developing complex competences that have become especially important in specific and health threatening conditions of Covid-19 global pandemic. Qualitative use of specific and transversal competences is necessary for more complicated and autonomous dimensions of the nurses’ responsibilities. Uniting of the existing 2nd level of the professional education with the 1st level of higher education into common higher medical education frame is planned in order to make nurses’ certification easier, to improve employment, mobility and adaptability to the unexpected conditions as, for the example, the present emergency pandemic situation. The study in the doctoral thesis frame reveals that improvement of acquisition of the competences can be promoted by transforming educational documents and focusing on practice-based environment.

scholarly journals RESEARCH ON THE ECONOMIC INTERACTION OF THE LABOR MARKET AND HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1(74)) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
O.M. GUTSALYUK ◽  
A.S. NAVOLOKINA
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
Higher Medical Education

Topicality The relevance of the research of the economic interaction of the labor market and human resources in the healthcare sector is growing today, as it is necessary to involve all interested parties to effective interaction, to ensure the flexibility of higher and vocational education system by adjustment of labor training to the needs of employers. Aim and tasks. The goal of the study is to analyze the interaction of labor markets and education, identify the main disadvantages of this interaction and develop proposals to increase its productivity in the context of meeting the needs and interests of the subjects of these markets. Research results. The interaction of labor markets and educational services can be considered as coordinated behavior of entities engaged in economic activity in these markets in order to balance the supply and demand for skilled labor, create conditions for socio-economic growth of the national economy through the reproduction of human capital and increasing the competitiveness of the workforce. The economic interaction of the labor market and the human resources in the healthcare sector of Ukraine has been analyzed. An assessment of the competitiveness of the field of higher medical education and its institutions in the context of the economic interaction has been carried out. The level of the economic interaction of the educational services market and the labor market has been determined. The process of harmonization of the labor market of EU countries and Ukraine has been investigated. The main causes and disadvantages of the economic interaction of the educational services and the labor markets have been identified. The directions of improvement of the forecasting process of the labor market development as measures of improving the productivity of the studied processes are suggested. The approach to determining the competitive position of a higher medical education institution using a qualimetric approach has been considered, where educational and pedagogical work, personnel, scientific work and international activity are chosen as parameters. The main factor by the parameter of educational and pedagogical work is the medical work, which includes the following evaluation criteria: the number of university clinics, consultative and surgical activity of employees during the year, participation in the creation of clinical protocols, the availability of medical qualification among the teachers, technology acquisition of practical skills. According to the results of competitiveness assessment of higher education institutions, it is proposed to determine the following levels: critical (low); sufficient (average); high (higher than average); excellent (very high). Conclusion. The results of the study indicate an unsatisfactory level of the economic interaction of the labor market and the human resources in the healthcare sector in Ukraine, which is manifested in an imbalance in supply and demand for specialists in the relevant specialties, the low percentage of employed graduates of HEI, the high share of unemployed with higher education and the absence of direct connection between the amount of expenses on the education and the quality of educational services, the imperfection in the information support system and the poor state of forecasting processes in the main indicators of functioning and development of the labor market.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF CREDIT-MODULE SYSTEM AT HIGHER MEDICAL SCHOOL EDUCATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF MEDICAL SECTOR REFORMING

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-149
Author(s):  
N. G. Virstiuk ◽  
O. І. Kocherzhat ◽  
O. R. Luchko ◽  
І. І. Vakaliuk ◽  
M. М. Vasylechko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Modular System ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Transfer System ◽  
Credit Transfer ◽  
European Education

Abstract. In the sphere of modern higher education, the following main requirements to the performance level of modern professional of any profile can be distinguished: comprehensive fundamental expertise, capacity to work in the team, fast mastering of new technologies, self-education skills and ability to conduct creative work and research. These qualities of a specialist become the main objectives and reference points in building the modern system of higher education that would contribute to creation of expertise, respective access, management, dissemination and achievement control. The requirements to medical education are one of the most precise, especially on the background of critical demographic situation in the world, in general, and in Ukraine, in particular. The participation of the Ukrainian system of higher education in the Bologna reforms should be aimed only at its development and acquisition of new quality features without losing the best traditions and decrease of its national quality standards. Orientation towards Bologna process should not cause the excessive restructuring of the national education system. The main aim of Bologna process is to create a unified, all-European, strong and competitive education system (first of all, with the American education system), and also expand the possibilities for employment of future professionals. The European Credit Transfer System was implemented in Ukraine in 2005 and is aimed at the development of national school. This system enables transfer of credits from different educational institutions and it expands the access to the European education, leads to the modernization of European education and provides more efficient training of graduating specialists. Therefore, the higher educational institutions of our country constantly take the measures towards improvement of teaching and education process and methods of education using different forms of knowledge control.  Having as an objective the control of education results and evaluation of efficiency of study, the objective monitoring of knowledge and skills that provides for the use of its different forms, becomes an integral part of the educational process. The Bologna declaration forms the model of European higher education with consideration of the specific features and traditions of the national educational systems. One of the key criteria of the implementation efficiency of credit-modular system of educational process organization is advancement of higher professional education quality. However, the implementation of surgical educational programs has a series of problematic issues. In the article, we describe the inclusion of the Ukrainian medical education into Bologna process, the stages of creation of Bologna educational system in Ukraine. We introduce the conceptual peculiarities of higher medical education reforms within the context of medical reforms in Ukraine. We have shown the credit-modular system of educational process organization in the Ukrainian education and demonstrated the advantages of credit transfer system in medical education. We also have added to the concept of higher medical school reforms in the context of medical reforms in Ukraine.

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