The department teaches the discipline “Outpatient Therapy” to students of the 4th, 5th and 6th years of the Faculty of General Medicine and The Medical Faculty for International Students specializing in General Medicine. There is a standard and working curriculum, the current standard program was developed by the staff of the department- Khursa R.V. and Yakovleva E.V. (approved in 2011).
Particular attention is paid to the acquisition and consolidation of students' practical skills in working with the outpatient contingent of therapeutic patients.
Classes are held in two shifts according to the cycle system:
-on the 4th year - 35 hours and summer industrial outpatient practice (72 hours);
- on the 5th - 30 hours (5 academic hours daily);
-on the 6th - 105 hours (7 academic hours daily).
A list of practical skills and instructions for their implementation for all courses have been determined. The entire volume of educational work is carried out by full-time teachers.
The premises of the educational bases meet modern requirements and allow teaching students at a high level. There are sets of slides, tables and other visual aids, educational equipment (electrocardiograph, tonometers, portable ultrasound scanner, glucometer, portable otoscopes, ophthalmoscopes), computers.
4th-year students undergo summer outpatient practice, there is its program, methodological instructions for implementation, a list of practical skills for practice. Reports and diaries of students and teachers-supervisors on the basis of the practice's results are stored, as well as other mandatory and additional documentation.
Preparation for the upcoming practice and its results are annually discussed at the meetings of the department according to the plan, reports are submitted to the dean's offices and to the educational and methodological department of BSMU.
Assessment of the quality of conducting classes is carried out during planned and unscheduled visits by the head of the department and mutual visits of teachers, as well as by questioning students.
The department has repeatedly participated in the survey of students, organized by the educational and methodological department of BSMU. The results of the control of mutual visits and questionnaires are discussed at the department meetings and are also used for publications in scientific journals and for speeches at scientific and methodological forums on the pedagogy of higher education (6 oral presentations at republican and international forums over the past 5 years).
Classes are conducted at a high methodological level using test control of knowledge, versatile clinical situational tasks, visual aids, clinical analyzes of patients.
Various forms of student's research work are widely practiced: in the 4th year, learn to draw up medical documents, at the 6th year they write control papers on the preparation of prescriptions for different categories of patients, perform (under the supervision of a teacher) independent patient's consultation, etc.
In the learning process, student scientific conferences are held quarterly, on the last day of the cycle, students pass the final test and practical skills in the subject.
The educational process is constantly being improved in organizational and methodological terms: clinical situational tasks, test tasks of various types for teaching and control of knowledge are widely used and updated, layouts of new tables on various topics have been prepared in order to replicate them on each base, a bank of other visual aids is being replenished (sets of ECGs, R-grams, educational analyzes of biological body fluids, etc.).
Since 2017, on-line testing of students has been introduced to receive credit for all courses. 10 Electronic educational and methodological complexes (EEMCs) have been developed and implemented, including 3 in English. At the department there are methodological developments for practical exercises for teachers and self-training of students on all topics, texts of lectures.
