One of the important sections of the department's work is educational and methodological work. Teaching associate professors were: associate Professor N.N. Silivonchik. (1981-1989), associate professor Novikova R.A. (from 1989 to 2003), associate professor Aliakseichyk S.E. (from 2003 to 2014), associate professor Pankratava Y.Y. (from 2014 to the present).
The department provides training in the following specialties:
- 1-79 01 01 «General Medicine» for 4-6 year students of the General Medicine Faculty,
- 1-79 01 02 «Pediatrics» for 4-5 year students of the pediatric faculty,
- 1-79 01 03 «Medical and preventive work» for students of the medical and preventive faculty.
The department is a graduate in the discipline «Internal Medicine». «Internal medicine» (therapy) - an educational discipline containing systematized scientific knowledge about the etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of diseases of internal organs; methods of their diagnosis, non-surgical treatment, prevention and rehabilitation.
The field of therapy includes:
- respiratory system diseases (pulmonology),
- cardiovascular system (cardiology),
- gastrointestinal tract (gastroenterology),
- urinary system (nephrology),
- connective tissue (rheumatology),
- diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs (hematology).
The purpose of teaching and studying the discipline «Internal Medicine» is to acquire by students scientific knowledge about etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of major diseases of internal organs and the formation of clinical thinking. For this, in the organization of training, traditional methods of teaching the discipline are used: lectures, practical exercises, as well as elements of controlled independent work of students.
Education is organized using traditional and modern educational and information resources (computer presentations of lectures and practical exercises), interactive resources in the local computer network of the university and the Internet.
Practical classes are conducted according to the cycle system. The cycle «Internal Medicine contains work with a teacher and independent work.
In practical classes, students learn the techniques of clinical interviews, acquire practical skills in patient examination, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases. They learn to correctly present the data obtained in the form of diary entries in the patient's observation cards, writing an educational medical history, and also formulate conclusions.
Students are introduced to the techniques and features of work in various specialized therapeutic departments, safe working conditions, the norms of medical ethics and deontology. Daily monitoring of the preparation of students, the quality of education is carried out through oral and written, computer test interviews in the process of practical training.
In the process of teaching students, an important place is given to modern teaching technologies. The training test program for electrocardiography is widely used in practical classes in internal medicine. It is also used in practical training video and audio materials, viewing digital X-ray images, computed tomography, computer training programs.
The staff of the department also creates its own video and DVD archive, which is regularly updated and widely used in teaching students.
В рамках инновационного проекта «Компьютерное тестирование в БГМУ» разработаны тесты различного уровня сложности для студентов 4 курса педиатрического факультета, студентов 5 курса по «Профессиональным болезням».
Within the framework of the innovative project «Computer testing at BSMU», tests of various levels of complexity have been developed for 4th year students of the pediatric faculty, 5th year students in «Occupational Diseases».
The staff of the department has prepared an electronic educational-methodical complex «Internal Diseases» for 4-5 year students of the medical faculty. The complex is fully consistent with the standard curriculum.
The educational-methodical complex allows students to prepare for each lesson provided by the curriculum; carry out an independent search for additional information within the framework of the topic under study using the indicated links; check the assimilation of the topic using self-control tests; to develop the foundations of clinical thinking in solving situational problems.