ANATOMY 1 Name of the Department: Department ... - Biomeedikum

SECTION I: SELF-EVALUATION
8. Is there a need for further pedagogic training?
Yes, there is a urgent need for this type of training, as the junior staff has received
pedagogic training before they had any teaching experience themselves,
and the senior staff has no pedagogic training.
IV. TEACHING RESOURCES
9. Is there a need for rearrangement of the teaching resources in your department?
If so, how should this be done?
Rearrangement of teaching resources inside the Department is not felt to be
necessary at the moment.
V. COORDINATION OF THE TEACHING
10. How is the teaching co-ordinated with other departments? Indicate the departments
that are closest to your department.
Interaction between chairs inside the Department as well as with other Departments
of the Faculty of Medicine should be improved in order to increase
coherence in teaching. So far the main partners in teaching have been from
the Department of Family Medicine. This co-operation has been improved over
the years but is not yet as good as it should.
VI. FUTURE PLANS
11. Future plans to improve the teaching given by the department.
In addition to the points made above, on undergraduate level we plan to reorganize
the present 5 separate courses into a more interdisciplinary course of
public health. For example, at the moment, the 2 nd year students receive basic
knowledge in epidemiology before they have seen any patient or disease and
naturally the discipline seems too theoretical for them. We plan to transfer
some of this course to the 5 th year in order to teach clinical epidemiology and
basics of research design. Instead, some of the content of the course of health
care management (presently on 5 th year), namely the organisation of health
care and main legislation in Estonia will be presented to the 2 nd year students
in order they would have a better picture of the scene when they enter clinical
studies.
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The other main goal for the staff is to write textbooks and handbooks in their
respective disciplines to be used both at undergraduate and postgraduate
level as well as in continuous education.