TernopilSimOlymp–2019 сontest took place in TNMU
On October 3-5, 2019, TNMU Education and Recreation Center “Chervona Kalyna” hosted Scientific-Applied Conference with international participation “Actual Problems of Premedical Aid in Ukraine”, All-Ukrainian Olympiad in simulation medicine TernopilSimOlymp – 2019 and the first competition for the future paramedics of Ukraine.
These events were organized by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, TNMU, State Institution “Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Center for Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, the All-Ukrainian Public Organization “All-Ukrainian Council of Resuscitation and Emergency Medical Services”, youth department of “All-Ukrainian Council of Resuscitation and Emergency Medical Services”.
Professor Stepan Zaporozhan, Vice-Rector for Science, Education and Clinical Affairs, congratulated the participants of the Conference and the Olympiad on behalf of the Rector, Professor Mykhaylo Korda. The participants were welcomed by the head of the Lithuanian Paramedics Association Ritis Malashauskas, the Head of the Emergency Medicine Instructors Training Unit of the State Unitary Medical Center EMD and MK Vitalii Kryliuk, the Head of the Simulation Training Center of TNMU Halyna Tsymbaliuk, promoters of the Olympiad Bohdana Pereviznyk and Anastasia Hudyma.
Halyna Tsymbalyuk, Vitalii Kryliuk and Arsen Hudyma made speeches at the conference.
The participants got acquainted with the peculiarities of paramedics training in Ukraine, and in particular at TNMU, with the results of the transit program of teaching to the specialists of the emergency medical aid system of Ukraine and the role of the certified courses in the system of continuous training of doctors.
Guest from Lithuania Ritis Malasausas shared his experience of teaching premedical aid programs in Lithuania.
Moreover, a number of workshops were offered to the participants, such as: examination of the injured and unharmed patient (Yurii Denysiuk, Assistant Professor, Department of Disaster and Military Medicine, TNMU); basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (Olha Prokhorenko, Assistant of the Department of Disaster and Military Medicine, TNMU); respiratory passages protection (Antonina Chervatiuk, Assistant Professor, Department of Disaster and Military Medicine, TNMU); providing emergency medical care to the injured patient (Ritis Malashauskas and Anatolii Kaleniuk, instructors of the Lithuanian Paramedics Association), modern means of stopping massive bleeding (Roman Huk, instructor of the All-Ukrainian Board of Resuscitation, 6th year TNMU student).
On the same day at 18.00 there rules of the Olympiad were announced, and at 20.00 night contest started. Student teams from M. Pyrogov Vinnytsia National Medical University, Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy, Donetsk National Medical University (Kramatorsk and Kropyvnytskyi), D. Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, O. Bogomolets National Medical University, Poltava Dental Academy, I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, College of Rivne Medical Academy and Chortkiv medical college participated in the competition. Three teams of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University participated in the first championship among future paramedics.
In total, the Olympiad included 8 competition tasks, which included determining the level of theoretical training (tests), resuscitation of an adult along with the attack of bronchial asthma, resuscitation of a child who drowned in the bathtub, assisting the injured in a car accident, after an explosion and after falling from a height, physical endurance and performance of medical manipulations after physical exercise. The final contest was a basic resuscitation, assessing the quality of chest pressures and artificial lung ventilation with an AMBU sack, which took place on a stage with completely objective performance monitoring.
In the end, the judges organized a debriefing and analyzed what the teams were doing well and what they needed to work on. They also noted that in some educational institutions, insufficient attention was paid to students mastering modern protocols in emergency medicine.
After that there was an awarding of the winners. They were greeted by Vice-Rector of TNMU Stepan Zaporozhan, Director of Chortkiv State Medical College Liubomyr Bilyk, Head of the Emergency Medical Instructors Training Unit of the State Institution of Emergency Medicine of the University of Medical Sciences of Ukraine and Vitalii Kryliuk.
The winners of the Olympiad were rewarded by Stepan Zaporozhan and Liubomyr Bilyk.
The best team of TNMU students was the team consisting of Karina Krupka, Diana Bys, Maksym Verbovetskyi. Representatives of Chortkiv State Medical College were nominated for the Best Medical College team.
In the nomination “Best student team” the third place with the same number of points was shared by the teams of Vinnytsia National Medical University (Natalia Usenko, Oleksander Dyba, Roman Sandulake) and Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy (Diana Kazbinova, Oleksii Honchar, Vladyslav Samofal). TNMU team (Tatiana Oper, Roman Tarasiuk, Andrii Danchak) won the second prize. The first prize was awarded to an absolute champion team of Donetsk National Medical University (Kramatorsk), Anastasia Oparina, Hanna Sushkina and Serhii Lykhatskii. In addition to the prizes, this team received an award from the Youth Department of All-Ukrainian Council of Resuscitation and Emergency Medical Services – free participation in the Kremenets Medical Rally 2020, which is to be held in February 2020.
The organizing committee and participants of the event express their gratitude to the administration of TNMU and “Chervona Kalyna” for their assistance and support.
The judges of these competitions were Vitalii Kryliuk, Halyna Tsymbaliuk, Ritis Malashauskas, Anatolii Kaleniuk, Victor Shatskyi, Antonina Chervatiuk, Yurii Denysiuk, Olha Prokhorenko, Ihor Halchak. Chief Judge was Arsen Hudyma.
The event was organized by Anastasia Hudyma, Bohdana Pereviznyk, Roman Huk, Kateryna Vorobets, Narhiz Javadova, Iryna Stanko, Viola Svirzhevska, Yura Beniv, Marina Vashchuk, Oleksandr Byshnevych, Natalia and Maksym Hyrenko.
We congratulate all the winners and wish them good luck in conquering new peaks!
