TNMU Won a DAAD Grant for Students in the University of Würzburg

Russia’s war in Ukraine has a devastating effect not only on the infrastructure of the Ukrainian higher education system, but also greatly complicates the education of students, and especially future doctors, for whom live communication and learning within the walls of the hospital is extremely important. Thanks to the project “UA-MEDSAT: Ukraine MEDical SAtellite Teaching”, which is financed by the program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) “Digital Ukraine: Ensuring academic success during the crisis (2022)” TNMU students will have the opportunity to improve their clinical skills in the fall semester of 2022/2023. The program is focused on the rapid implementation of virtual courses in order to help Ukrainian higher education institutions to provide training.

The project will be implemented jointly with the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (Germany). It is one of the oldest universities in Germany, founded in 1402, located in Würzburg, Bavaria. The staff of the Faculty of Medicine in Würzburg will help to expand fundamental communication skills (taking a history, breaking bad news, counseling and assessment) and the basics of clinical thinking on specific clinical cases in internal medicine, general practice, surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, psychiatry and paediatrics.

The project involves asynchronous and synchronous online training of our students in Ukrainian and English. It is planned to involve students of Vinnytsia and Lviv medical universities as well.

The project will serve as the first step of future cooperation between TNMU and the University of Würzburg.