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

BIOCHEMISTRY
eliminated. Such alterations allow improve individual practical skills of students.
4. Describe the innovations in your teaching.
As medical education is permanently changing, we started via TEMPUS
(Structural Joint European Project, contract JEP-09270-95: “Restructuring of
Biochemical Education in the University of Tartu” 1995-1998) to adapt our curricula
towards problem-oriented teaching, delivering the clinical relevant
knowledge and pushing the students to develop biochemical-medical thinking
in the seminars and avoiding simple loading them with facts. Development of
new contemporary original textbooks, including CD-ROMs, which cover main
topics of Medical Biochemistry, facilitates this process. Since 1999, the students
do not waste their time to write down a lot of information and their intensive
work with problems both in seminars and during their homework is much
more facilitated/motivated. During the last 1-2 years the lectures and seminars
have been illustrated with original PowerPoint computerized slides. The role of
animated computer-shows, to discuss special topics, among the teaching
methods is permanently growing. Since 2001, all our programs and plans of
lectures and seminars will be presented also on internet home page of our
Department (http://biomedicum.ut.ee/arbk).
5. Name the factors which most disturb teaching (excluding financial resources).
Good teaching materials, strongly oriented to Medical Biochemistry, do not
practically exist in electronic form even in English. Therefore, the development
of original and real clinical outcome giving materials and development of computer-aided
methods would require a tremendous preparatory work.
II. EVALUATION OF TEACHING
6. How is the quality of the teaching in your department evaluated? How are
the content and the modes of the teaching changed on the basis of the
evaluation?
There is an open atmosphere between the teachers and students. This allows
immediate and direct feedback during and after the teaching. Each course is
preceded by a staff meeting, where the results of questionnaire-based last
student evaluation (carried out systematically in Faculty of Medicine) are reviewed
and considered.
III. PEDAGOGIC TRAINING OF STAFF
7. How many of the teachers have received pedagogic training?
All teachers have received practical training in their teaching work. A few
teachers have attended formal courses of pedagogic training. All teachers
have attended occasional lectures or demonstrations.
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