The Department of Bioorganic chemistry attaches great importance to improving the quality of teaching and incorporation of the most efficient educational technologies into teaching/learning Bioorganic and Organic Chemistry. The department pays special attention to all the specific aspects of practice oriented content for all the lines of medical and pharmaceutical studies to provide the integration of chemical disciplines with general medicine, pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry and technology, dentistry, public health, pediatrics, etc.
11 Professors and lecturers run tutorials and hold exams for undergraduate students and graduate students.
Electronic educational tools and courseware in the discipline have been developed and implemented in the educational process. Special emphasis is placed on blended learning as a pedagogical approach of high priority. Students' knowledge is regularly assessed; all students being taken a graded credit at the end of the course according to the syllabus.
The department actively implements innovative educational technologies meeting the Bologna process principles. All the Department resources make up the educational portal which includes the intra-net sites for teachers and students. Educational resources include a vast bank of full-text educational materials and visual aids; all of them has been created by the Department teaching staff. The devised interactive E-textbooks help the students to get access to current educational literature, presentations of lectures, tests for self-training and self-control. An indispensable part of the department's work is also teaching Department disciplines to international students in English. The department has prepared dozens of textbooks and handbooks, including in English; few of them have been adopted by the Ministry of Education for all medical Universities.
The research interests in the field of Didactics are mainly devoted to promoting online learning activities, computer-based instruction, information and communication technologies. To enhance students’ motivation and autonomy in professionally oriented learning, the Department currently elaborated the new modules for medical and pharmaceutical students. In particular, the new module “Rational drug design and modelling in silico” as well as the module “Synthesis, separation and identification of organic compounds” have been introduced in the course of Organic chemistry (Specialty 1-79 01 08 Pharmacy). The department does the best to develop both special and intercultural competences by applying innovative approaches to the educational process.
Our department does believe that Chemistry is an experimental science; therefore, we try to get students hands-on experience with experimental techniques and key chemical phenomena as much as possible. We do the best to integrate the lab experiences with the relevant lecture material to improve the educational process and to enhance the student’s motivation in learning science.
Since 2009 the department has been organizing elective course 'Laboratory diagnostics of acute poisoning'. This course is very popular among students of various lines; discipline textbook has been adopted by the Ministry of Education for all medical Universities. This elective allows to individualize the process of education, take into account the students’ personal interests, as well as future employers’ requirements for the graduates’ professional level.