Main issues of medical education, search for common solutions, internationalization as a necessary element of its development – Quality of Higher Medical Education Forum has taken place in Kyiv. It was organized by the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.

 

The event was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Testing Center at the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, as well as leading medical universities of Ukraine, higher education institutions with medical programs and key stakeholders.

 

The purpose of the Forum – to outline challenges and issues, to discuss a common vision of real qualitative changes in higher education in the field of healthcare.

 

“The most popular specialties among foreign students – and that is almost 50% – are medical. Therefore, such a forum is extremely relevant. After all, it allows us to unite the efforts to improve higher medical education in Ukraine and raise its image” – commented Dr. Olena Shapovalova, Director of the Ukrainian State Center for International Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

 

Thus, according to the data from “Study in Ukraine” as of 01.01.2021, the most popular specialties chosen by foreign students are:

 

1. medicine (36.81%)
2. dentistry (6.46%)
3. medical practice (4.02%)
4. management (4.04%)
5. pharmacy, industrial pharmacy (4.00%)
6. law (2.01%)
7. architecture and construction (1.72%)
8. finance, banking and insurance (1.7%)
9. economics (1.60%)
10. preparatory department (28.82%)

 

The program of the Forum includes a discussion of real cases, presentation of international achievements, education results and their measurement, implementation of higher education standards and other relevant issues.

 

The recording of the Forum is available at the link: https://bit.ly/3AGtxVt