Latin Language Olympiad at TNMU

On March 13, 2025, the Department of Foreign Languages at I.Ya. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University organized the first stage of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in the discipline “Latin Language and Medical Terminology.” The Olympiad was attended by 29 first-year students from the Medical and Dental Faculties.

The event was organized by Professor Nadiia Fedchyshyn, Associate Professors Halyna Palasyuk, and Tetiana Savaryn, who prepared tasks classified by difficulty levels. A notable innovation of this year’s Olympiad included competitive tasks, like closed-type test questions, open-ended tasks, and creative assignments. The tasks were based on understanding the significance of developing terminological competence for future doctors and the defining role of Latin as the international language of science.

The jury for evaluating the competition work comprised Professor Nadiia Fedchyshyn (Chair of the Jury), Associate Professors Halyna Palasyuk, Tetiana Savaryn, Ivanna Vorona, and Roman Kotsiuba.

The results of the Olympiad demonstrated a high level of Latin language proficiency among students, a substantial degree of practical skills development, and a good creative potential in future specialists in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and physical therapy.

The winners of the first stage were determined in two categories:

1. Participants studying “Medicine.”
2. Participants studying “Dentistry.”

The best results among the Medical Faculty students were:
1st place – Anastasia Lyaska (MM-106)
2nd place – Stanislav Stepanitskyi (MM-113), Anastasiia Oryshnyuk (MM-109), Anastasiia Hrekh (MM-118), Valentyna Tumanova (MM-104)
3rd place – Daryna Romaniv (MM-113), Petro Kovalyk (MM-118), Veronika Bayshur (MM-118), Sofiia Chernobay (MM-227).

The best results among the Dental Faculty students were:
1st place – Mariia Tkachenko (SS-108)
2nd place – Solomiya Tychkovska (SS-107), Stanislav Kopestynskyi (SS-107)
3rd place – Dmytro Chyliy (SS-104), Oleksandr Servatniuk (SS-102).

On March 19, 2025, the results of the Olympiad were summarized, and winners were announced at a ceremony held in the TNMU library. During the award ceremony, the Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Professor Nadiia Fedchyshyn, and Associate Professor Halyna Palasyuk congratulated the participants. All Olympiad participants received certificates and commemorative souvenirs.