Today, the Department of Public Health and Health Care carries out educational activities in three disciplines at the Medical, Pediatric, Dental and Medical-Psychological-Pharmaceutical Faculties: "Public Health and Healthcare", "Evidence-Based Medicine", "History of Medicine".
The Head of the Department is Candidate of Medical Science (Ph.D.), Associate Professor Natalia V.Tikhonova
We conduct practical classes in the discipline "Public Health and Healthcare" for the 3rd and 4th year students in General Medicine , the 5th year students in Pediatrics and 3rd year students of the Dental Faculty.
Within the framework of this discipline, the following competencies are formed: General Professional Competence (GPC) GPC - 3 the ability to use the basics of economic and legal knowledge in professional activities; GPC -5 ability and willingness to analyze the results of their own activities to prevent professional mistakes; GPC -6 readiness to maintain medical records; Professional Competence (PC) PC-1 ability and readiness to implement a set of measures aimed at preserving and strengthening health and including the healthy lifestyle formation, prevention of the occurrence and (or) spread of diseases, their early diagnosis, identification of the causes and conditions of their occurrence and development, as well as aimed at eliminating the harmful influence of environmental factors on human health; PC -2 ability and readiness to conduct preventive medical examinations, medical examination and implementation of medical supervision; PC -4 ability and readiness to use social and hygienic methods of collecting and medical and statistical analysis of information on health indicators of the population; PC -7 readiness to conduct an examination of temporary disability, participate in the medical and social examination, and establish the biological death of a person; PC -17 ability to apply the basic principles of organization and management in the field of protecting the health of citizens in medical organizations and their structural divisions; PC -18 readiness to participate in the assessment of the medical care quality using the main medical and statistical indicators; PC -20 readiness to analyze and publicly present medical information based on evidence-based medicine; PC-21 ability to participate in scientific research.
Practical classes in the discipline "Public Health and Healthcare" are conducted by Associate Professors: N.V. Tikhonova, M.V. Shubkin, E.A. Prikhodko, O.Yu. Kutumova, and senior lecturer A.O. Sabanova. All of them are highly professional specialists, actively introducing interactive forms of work with students (student scientific and practical conferences, master classes, round tables, and etc.). Teaching staff systematically improves their professional level by training at the leading departments of health organization at medical universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other cities.
Practical classes in the discipline "History of Medicine" are held in the 1st year of Medical, Pediatric, Dental, Medical, Psychological and Pharmaceutical Faculties. Teachers of the discipline are leading specialists in this field who have extensive experience in teaching. T.M. Chelnokova and V.O. Timoshenko have completed internships in the discipline at the leading scientific and educational centers of the country – in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kazan. Vera Olegovna Timoshenko combines the work at the Department with her research in the field of the activities of Professor V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky and is in charge of the St. Luke Memorial Hall at the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University.
The discipline “History of Medicine” forms the following competencies: General Cultural Competences (GCC) GCC -3 – the ability to analyze the main stages and patterns of the society historical development to form a civic position; GCC -5 – readiness for self-development, self-realization, self-education, and use of creative potential; GCC 4 – ability and willingness to implement ethical and deontological principles in professional activities.
Interactive forms of conducting classes were introduced into the educational activities of students in this discipline - master classes. One of them, "Obstetrics and Pediatrics: From Ancient Times to the Present Day", has become traditional. Chelnokova T.M. conducts it annually at the Pediatric and Medical Faculties. The Department has identified the following priority research areas of the discipline History of Medicine: "History of Pediatrics development and national projects in the system of maternity and childhood protection in the Krasnoyarsk Territory", "Continuity in the development of the most important areas between generations of obstetrician-gynecologists and pediatricians, these services interaction in different periods of the medicine history", "Historical aspects of Professor V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky’s activity and life ".
The discipline "Evidence-Based Medicine" is taught for full-time students in the specialties of "General Medicine", "Pediatrics", and "Pharmacy", as well as for distance learning students of the specialty "Pharmacy". The discipline "Evidence-Based Medicine" forms the following competencies: GCC - 1 ability to abstract thinking, analysis, synthesis; GCC - 5 readiness for self-development, self-realization, self-education, use of creative potential; GPC - 1 readiness to solve standard tasks of professional activity using information, bibliographic resources, medical and biological terminology, information and communication technologies and taking into account the basic requirements of information security; GPC - 5 ability and willingness to analyze the results of their own activities to prevent professional mistakes; GPC - 7 readiness to use basic physical, chemical, mathematical and other natural science concepts and methods in solving professional tasks; PC - 20 readiness to analyze and publicly present medical information based on evidence-based medicine; ability to ensure the activities of pharmaceutical organizations on labor protection and safety; PC - 21 ability to participate in scientific research.
Scientific Activity:
- New organizational models of activity ("Lean Clinics") that provide assistance on an outpatient basis, increasing the role of doctors providing assistance on a district basis, based on the optimization of their functional responsibilities,
- Improving access to medical care. Optimization of gerontological and geriatric care to the population.
- Current state and problems of emergency and emergency medical care, development prospects;
- Health status of various age and gender groups in the subjects of the Russian Federation, new criteria for the age and aging of the population, taking into account the healthy life duration and social activity of the population;
- The contribution of death managed causes to the demographic dynamics in Russia and regions; causes and risk factors influencing the incidence, mortality, including due to socially significant diseases in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in various age-sexual groups;
- Organizational technologies for the prevention of non-communicable diseases that contribute to the priority of prevention in the field of health protection and the development of primary health care, organizational aspects of the healthy lifestyle formation;
- The health status and medical and social problems of medical students at the present stage. Personnel deficit in the region and problems of primary health care personnel training.
In cooperation with the Health Ministry of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the research staff of the Department is implementing the project "Optimization of medical activities at polyclinics in the city of Krasnoyarsk". Students-members of the Student Scientific Society take part in the implementation of this project under the guidance of a Senior Researcher, Candidate of Medical Science (PhD), Associate Professor of the Department Irina L. Arshukova. Within the framework of this project, a socio-hygienic study is being conducted to study patient satisfaction with medical care in polyclinics in the city of Krasnoyarsk, as well as studying the opinions of district doctors, and heads of clinics. In addition, each year we monitor graduates of the Krasnoyarsk State Medical University regarding their expectations from the future of the medical profession and their view on future work in the practice of medicine.
Active development of students' scientific activity allowed them to repeatedly win and become laureates of Prof. Sologub and Prof. Gitelson competitions.
International activity
The international activity of the Department has been carried out since 2016 within the framework of the G-MedEx international network educational program. Throughout the program, members of the Student Science Society (SSS) of the Department took part in the international student exchange and visited the partner University of Niigata (Japan). In addition, one of them will continue his studies at the partner University within a postgraduate program. Since 2016, we have been organizing seminars on the topic "Health care organization in Russia and Japan: similarities and differences" for foreign students who came to our University under the G-MedEx program. In addition, we have also held a seminar "Statistical approaches to the mortality analysis". Since 2017, the Department has been hosting students on a permanent basis for two-week and seven-week internships in the framework of international exchange. Students are supervised by members of the SSS and graduate students of the Department under the guidance of a Senior Researcher, Candidate of Medical Science (PhD), Assistant Professor of the Department Irina L. Arshukova. We hold lectures, seminars and practical classes for foreign students. They are provided in English and concern the organization of health care in the Russian Federation. At the end of the training course, foreign students pass a public certification with the defense of their scientific work, which they conducted at the Department during their internship under the supervision of their tutors.