The organization of educational and methodological work at the department involves the development, updating and approval of standard and educational programs of the discipline for all students at the department, developing and updating the content of the lecture course, improving methodical instructions for laboratory and practical studies, organization and activation of independent work of students, improving the teaching skills of the teaching staff of the department.
The department carries out educational and methodological work with first-year students of all faculties, at the day and evening pre-university departments, as well as at the pre-university department for foreign citizens, and for MD and PhD students.
All types and forms of education are used. Lectures are given for the 1st year students of all faculties, at the full-time pre-university department on the basis of modern information technologies with constant improvement of the methods and technical teaching aids used.
Much attention is paid to the acquisition of practical skills by students during laboratory work.
To organize independent work, all students are provided with teaching aids that contain theoretical ideas, methods of laboratory work, a set of test tasks for self-control of knowledge and computational problems with solution standards. A computer version of tests on all topics of the discipline has been developed and used.
The staff of the department use various forms of knowledge control in their work: tests to determine the initial level of knowledge, written tests on solving problems and writing equations of chemical reactions, questioning.
An appropriate educational and methodical complex in the discipline, various forms of knowledge control make high-quality training of students possible.
The following disciplines are taught at the department:
- General chemistry – for the 1st year students of medical, pediatric, preventive medicine, military medicine, dentistry faculty and the faculty of foreign students.
- General and inorganic chemistry - for the 1st year students of the Faculty of Pharmacy.
- Physical and Colloidal Chemistry - for the 2nd year students of the Faculty of Pharmacy.
- Chemistry – for the students of the pre-university departments.
- Biochemistry - for MD and PhD students.
New technologies at the department
New problems and tasks have appeared in the context of modernization of the education system. The staff of the department have been working on their solution and the problem of optimal student learning.
Currently, information technologies have become very important in education. The availability of personal computers, smartphones, tablets stimulates the development of electronic educational and methodical complexes that allow to open new ways in the development of thinking, providing new opportunities for distance learning.
When teaching at the department, computer telecommunications are used at various stages of training. A wide range of multimedia presentations with videos has been prepared for lectures, electronic versions of textbooks are offered. When practicing skills and abilities, educational testing, interactive testing, computer programs are used to process the data obtained.
The laboratories of the department are equipped with a variety of laboratory glassware, reagents and the latest equipment for practical training.
The second-year students of the Faculty of Pharmacy at a laboratory workshop on physical and colloidal chemistry use the educational and laboratory complex "Chemistry", which includes the modules "Thermochemistry", "Thermal analysis", "Electrochemistry".
The "Thermostat" module is used to carry out calorimetric measurements and work requiring maintenance of a given temperature. The "Thermal Analysis" module is used for laboratory work on the study of phase equilibria and construction of phase diagrams in two-component systems.
The "Electrochemistry" module is used for laboratory work on conductometry and potentiometry.
Thus, students receive the most complete training in the disciplines taught, skills in working in a modern laboratory. This allows them to adapt easily in the real world, learn to obtain knowledge on their own, be able to generalize, draw conclusions, be creative people.