Scientific methodological (scientific research) laboratory on pharmaceutical education

Address: Str. Pushkin, 53, 4th floor, office. 417
Tel .: (057) 706 19 47
E-mail: nml@nuph.edu.ua

The Scientific and Methodical Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine carries out its activities with the aim of increasing the level of methodical work at the National University of Pharmacy. It generalizes the best experience in the organization of the educational process, ensuring the integrity and continuity of increasing the scientific and methodical level and professional skill of teachers, implementing tasks on reforming higher education in institutions of higher education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and involving professors and teaching staff, doctoral and postgraduate students in solving scientific problems of teaching methods of educational components.

Structural subdivisions of the Scientific and Methodical Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Education

  • Methodical sector
  • Sector of accreditation and licensing
  • Sector of examination of scientific and methodical works
  • Higher education quality assurance sector
  • Continuing education sector
  • Organizational and analytical sector
  • Sector of psychological support for participants of the educational process of NUPh ‘Psychological Service’
  • Support sector of the Unified State Electronic Database on Education

Methodical sector

Tasks and functions of the sector:

  • Study of best practices, development and implementation of innovative learning technologies and organization of the educational process
  • Attendance and analysis of open (demonstration) educational classes (lectures, master classes, open (demonstration) lectures, open (demonstration) practical, laboratory and seminar classes)
  • Analysis and preparation for consideration by the Academic Council of the NUPh of the textbooks and teaching materials prepared by the departments
  • Organization and holding of competitions, exhibitions, presentations of educational and methodical literature
  • Replenishment of the database of the automated management system of the NUPh (maintenance of the methodical module)
  • Organization of activities related to the development of standard methodical documentation at the departments of the NUPh
  • Coordination of the work of methodologists of the departments, their consulting and practical assistance in the relevant areas of activity
  • Participation in the organization and conduct of an internal audit of the educational and methodological work of the NUPh departments (including the educational and methodological support of the educational components of the departments) and the analysis of its results
  • Analysis of placement on the website of the Center for Distance Technologies of the NUPh (https://pharmel.kharkiv.edu/) of the component complexes of educational and methodological support of all mandatory and optional educational components assigned to the departments
  • Provision of methodical assistance to young teachers who have just started their teaching activities at the NUPh

Sector of accreditation and licensing

Tasks and functions of the sector:

  • Coordination of the work of the faculties and departments of the NUPh on issues of licensing, accreditation and changing the licensed volumes of training of specialists at the relevant levels of higher education
  • Carrying out a qualitative analysis of the personnel of the scientific and pedagogical staff of the NUPh in accordance with the Licensing conditions for conducting educational activities
  • Monitoring, analysis, systematization of the legislative and regulatory framework for the provision of educational and teaching-methodical activities of the NUPh in accordance with the Licensing conditions for conducting educational activities
  • Development of a plan of measures for licensing the initiation and implementation of educational activities and accreditation of educational programs at the NUPh
  • Management of the project (working) group for the preparation of the license (accreditation) case
  • Coordination of work on the formation of a license (accreditation) case
  • Providing the departments of the NUPh with documentation on licensing the initiation and implementation of educational activities and accreditation of educational programs
  • Organizing and ensuring the work of expert groups during the accreditation examination of educational programs

Sector of examination of scientific and methodical works

Tasks and functions of the sector:

  • Determination of priority areas of research on the problems of pharmaceutical education
  • Preparation of approvals of attestation materials of academic title holders for further consideration by the Academic Council of the University
  • Preparation of documents on approval and recommendation for publication of scientific and methodical recommendations and monographs
  • Expertise of manuscripts of educational and educational-methodical literature submitted for review by single-specialty departments of pharmaceutical faculties of medical institutions of higher education
  • Monitoring of official educational web resources, systematization and analysis of education and science news
  • Documentary support of participants of competitive selections to state bodies in the field of educational and teaching-methodical activities, etc.
  • Propagation of scientific knowledge in higher education pedagogy

Higher education quality assurance sector

Tasks and functions of the sector:

  • Determination of the principles and procedures of ensuring the quality of higher education
  • Study and analysis of international experience in ensuring the quality of higher education
  • Monitoring and periodic review of educational programs
  • Ensuring the availability of the necessary resources for the organization of the educational process, including the independent work of higher education applicants, for each educational program
  • Ensuring publicity of information about educational programs, levels of higher education and qualifications
  • Preparation of materials for licensing of educational activities and accreditation of educational programs of the NUPh in terms of ensuring the quality of the educational process
  • Provision of consultations on quality assurance of higher education to developers of educational programs
  • Conducting sociological research on determining the quality of the educational environment, the organization of the educational process, the quality of educational programs, the level of satisfaction with education, etc., and regularly publishing the results of such research on the official website of the NUPh, etc.

Continuing education sector

Tasks and functions of the sector:

  • Informing departments and other structural subdivisions of the NUPh about measures to improve the qualifications of scientific and pedagogical workers at its base
  • Conducting monitoring of measures to improve the qualifications of scientific and pedagogical workers in Ukraine
  • Formation of a plan for improving the qualifications of scientific and pedagogical workers of the NUPh
  • Collection of information on the improvement of the qualifications of scientific and pedagogical workers of the NUPh
  • Maintenance of an electronic data bank on improving the qualifications of scientific and pedagogical workers of the NUPh
  • Organization of the ‘School of Professional Mastery of the Teacher of the National University of Pharmacy’
  • Organization of activities of the ‘School of Methodist of the National University of Pharmacy’
  • Organization of activities of the ‘School of Guarantor of Educational Programs of the National University of Pharmacy’

Organizational and analytical sector

Tasks and functions of the sector:

  • Liaison with divisions and departments of the NUPh, divisions and departments of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education
  • Exchange of experience with pharmaceutical faculties of medical institutions of higher education
  • Participation in the development of state standards of pharmaceutical education
  • Development of orders, decrees, provisions of the NUPh, and methodological recommendations aimed at achieving the goals of activity

Sector of psychological support for participants of the educational process of NUPh ‘Psychological Service’

Tasks and functions of the sector:

  • Provision of psychological assistance and emotional support to all participants of the educational process in accordance with the goals and objectives of the NUPh
  • Facilitating the creation of psychological and pedagogical conditions for full-fledged personal development of students of higher education, formation of their motivation to study, self-realization of creative abilities, self-education and professional self-development
  • Increasing the psychological culture of participants in the educational process

Support sector of the Unified State Electronic Database on Education

Tasks and functions of the sector:

  • Maintenance, constant updating and analysis of the Unified State Electronic Database on Education
  • Organization of activities related to the preparation and printing of higher education diplomas, their appendices and student IDs of the NUPh
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