UNIVERSITY OF EAST SARAJEVO

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UNIVERSITY OF EAST SARAJEVO

• MEDICAL FACULTY FOCA
• www. medfak. srbinje.net

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Old curriculum

• COURSE DURATION 6 YEARS
• DEGREE MD IN GENERAL MEDICINE
• NUMBER OF SUBJECTS 37
• POSTGRADUATE STUDIESFOUNDATION OF SCIENTIFIC
  RESEARCH ENROLLED FIVE GENERATION

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Old curriculum

• BASED ON OLD FASHIONED TEACHING METHODS
• DOMINATION OF TRADITIONAL WAY OF TEACHING
• HORIZONTAL APPROACH TO TEACHING PROCESS
• DOMINATION OF THEORETICAL TEACHINGS OVER
  PRACTICAL EXERCISES AT MOST DEPARTMENTS
• BAD CLINICAL TRAINING
• LACK OF QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES

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PRECONDITIONS FOR CHANGING CURRICULUM

• NEW INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
• NEW MISSION STATEMENT
• OBJECTIVES
• ADMISSION CRITERIA
• CATALOGUES OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
• STRATEGIC AND ACTION PLAN

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ACHIEVED STEPS IN REFORM OF OUR CURRICULA

• UNIT FOR CHANGING OF CURRICULUM
• Subunit for research
• Subunit for introducing ECTS
• Subunit for internal quality assessment
• STRUCTURE OF THE UNIT
• 9 members ( dean, vice-deans, professors,
  assistants, administration representatives,
  students)

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ACHIEVED STEPS IN REFORM OF OUR CURRICULA

• COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EXISTING CURRICULA AT OUR
  SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND IN THE REGION
• ANALYSIS OF EXISTING CURRICULA AT EU MEDICAL
  SCHOOLS
• DIVIDING RESPONSIBILITIES AMONG MEMBERS OF UNIT
• CREATING OF THE DRAFT VERSIONS OF CURRICULUM

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New draft curriclum

• CORE COURSES ( 60-80)
• ELECTIVE COURSES ( 20-40)
• 12 SEMESTERS
• 11-12 SEMESTER WORK IN HOSPITAL
• INTRODUCING OF CLINICAL PRACTISE ON FIRST
  SEMESTER
• RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR STUDENTS IN THE LAST TWO
  SEMESTERS

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CURRICULUM

• ACCEPTING MODULAR APPROACH
• BASIC PRINCIPLES DICTUM PROJECT- HEIDELBERG
  MEDICAL FACULTY

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Principles in teachings

• WORK IN SMALL GROUPS
• TUTORIALS
• LIST OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES
• CREDIT SYSTEM FOR STUDENTS
• MENTORING OF STUDENTS
• ASSESSING OF TEACHERS
• INTRODUCING OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

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Main aims

• IMPROVING QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES
• INTRODUCING NEW TEACHING METHODS
• DEFINITIVE ADOPTION OF OUR CURRICULA ACCORDING TO
  BOLOGNA DECLARATION AND TO CURRICULA OF OTHER
  SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE IN BH.

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Experience about self-assessmentreport (Dictum
project)

• Ass prof.Dejan Bokonjic
• Ass. prof Srdjan Lozo

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Methodology of our work

• Making action plan
• Meetings with teaching staff
• Meetings with the Dean, representatives of Dean
  office and administration
• Meeting with students
• Representative sample of teaching staff and
  students
• Using of University self-evaluation report and
  report previously done at Medical faculty

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Internal assessment

• principles
• oriented towards the promotion of quality (not
  sanctioning)
• responsibility rests with the departments
  (evaluation committees)
• with attention for the curricula in general and
  each of its components (evaluation of curricula
  and subjects)
• With attention to teacher knowledge and
  performance quality of curriculum and quality of
  institution
• following a university wide procedure, but with
  room for local adjustments

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Report for internal assessment

• Team composition
• 2. Associates
• 3. How answers and comments were collected and
  when?
• 4. Difficulties encountered
• 5. Body of report
•         check-list
•         form
•         tables
• . remedy plans
• 6. Conclusion, strengths and weaknesses,
  opportunities and threats

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Self-assessment team

• Small group
• 2. Chairperson
• 3. Academics, administration, students (no School
  management)
• 4. Technical secretary

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Main obstacles from teaching staff

• Refusing of old fashioned teaching staff to go
  in for this procedure
• Complaints from teaching staff that they are not
  competent to answer on some questions even fields
  covered by our self evaluation questionnaires
• Bad motivation to participate in such activity

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Main obstacles from students

• Bad motivation
• Some of them didnt understand this activity
  seriously
• Dont submitting previously taken questionnaires
  to us

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Achieved results

• Collect enough questionnaires to have valid
  sample both from teaching staff and students
• Big support from Deans office to do this in the
  future on the regular basis
• We clearly saw main advantages of our Faculty and
  opportunities to change things.
• Also we realised main threats for our Faculty

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Conclusion

• To continue self- evaluation procedures in the
  following years on regular basis
• To improve and extend questionnaires and to
  develop guideline how to perform basic
• To consider main complaint of teaching staff who
  is filling what on the more systematic way
• To go in for regular external evaluations

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Conclusion

• Teacher and students initiative, questions,
• Regular assessment of subjects and teachers
• moment of data collection,
• interpretation of results,
• follow-up and period of time for evaluation