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<\/a><\/p>\nThis project was started by the Swiss Institute of Tropical Medicine and Public Health (Swiss TPH) with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Its main objective is to assist universities in implementing educational innovations within the framework of medical education reform of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The project is aimed at medical universities, where future general practitioners and family medicine doctors, as well as the heads of primary care facilities, are educated. Moreover, the project is designed for medical educational institutions for nurses \u2013 schools, colleges, faculties, nursing institutes.<\/p>\n
As part of this project, TNMU teachers are steadily raising their English skills. The main purpose of such training is:<\/p>\n
\u2013 to strengthen the teaching abilities of the university staff;<\/p>\n
\u2013 to develope the language skills of teachers involved in the implementation of the project, in order to communicate with foreign colleagues and curators of the project;<\/p>\n
\u2013 to assist in learning a foreign language in accordance with the \u201cRegulations on the certification of teaching staff\u201d;<\/p>\n
\u2013 by teaching English, to help in mastering medicine better, because the main medical resources are in English;<\/p>\n
\u2013 to train of a highly-qualified modern clinician, because only the best doctors should teach students in order to ensure high quality of education.<\/p>\n
All these aspects will help to achieve the main goal of the project \u2013 providing quality medical care to the population.<\/p>\n