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The educational process at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Morphology is organized taking into account the possibilities of modern information technologies of learning and is oriented towards the formation of an educated, harmoniously developed personality, professional mobility and rapid adaptation to changes and development in medicine, in the fields of science, technology and in the social and cultural sphere, in today’s conditions. 

All departments of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Morphology train students of higher education in normative and selective academic disciplines. Modern lecture halls are equipped with video systems, mobile interactive whiteboards. Practical classes are held in specially equipped classrooms with the necessary technical teaching aids. Practical classes for students of the 1st – 3rd courses are conducted according to the international system, and for students of the 4th-5th courses, according to the “One Day” method.

Modern lecture halls waiting for students

A view of the educational facilities of the Institute of Morphology

The Museum of Human Anatomy Department is located on the second floor of the morphological building on the basis of the Department of Human Anatomy, founded in 1959 by Professor Mykola Polyankin. All of the museum’s specimens are rationally systematized in display cabinets according to the functional-anatomical principle and in accordance with curricula and programs on human anatomy. The museum has fully equipped sections with the exposition of educational and scientific specimens and the production of tables on osteoarthrology, splanchnology, angioneurology, peripheral and central nervous systems. The section on teratology “Developmental defects in children” deserves special attention, in which original drugs obtained from clinical institutions of the city of Ternopil are described in details. On 596 specimens (wet and dry), you can see the natural shape of organs, their topographic relationships, projections of blood vessels and nerves, and the structure of individual organs. 

A fragment of the exposition of specimens in the museum of the Human anatomy Department

Museums of the Department of Pathological Anatomy with Autopsy Course and the Department of Forensic Medicine began to be formed from the first day of the foundation of our university, at that time named the Institute. And the immediate founders were associate professor B. Dubchak and assistant S. Abramov, who produced the first hundreds of macrospecimens. Museums of the department are constantly used to form attitudes towards a healthy lifestyle of school and student youth, fight against bad habits, visually reproducing the consequences and complications of alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking, etc. There is also an educational forensic medical museum on the basis of the department, which today has about 1,000 different exhibits from all sections of forensic medicine and is one of the richest specialized medical museums of Ukraine in terms of exposition. In it, along with the expositions of the scene, stands with original samples of various traumatic objects, cold and firearms are displayed.

A fragment of the exposition of specimens in the museum of the Pathologic Anatomy with Autopsy course and Forensic Pathology 

The Department of Anatomy uses interactive tables (manufactured by Visual fusion technology LLC) with appropriate software, virtual anatomy programs that allow you to view the layer-by-layer structure of the human body, the course of blood vessels, the topography of peripheral nerves, in a three-dimensional 3D mode. bones and their connections. A lot of illustrative material has been integrated into the database: educational videos, atlases and visual video materials on dissection of physical bodies and acquisition of other practical skills. Also, in the database, students can find computer and magnetic resonance tomograms of all normal areas of the human body. 

Classes based on the interdepartmental educational and training center with VR software Sharecare YOU, 3D Organon and Cadaver dissection for the comprehensive study of human anatomy have been introduced into the educational process. 

The use of the latest digital systems and learning platforms in the educational process at the Department of Human Anatomy 

Practical classes at the Department of Histology and Embryology are held in classrooms equipped with video systems, with the help of which teachers demonstrate histological microspecimens. Students study histostructures using modern optical microscopes. An atlas of electron microphotographs is widely used for in-depth study of cells and tissues. The Virtual Microscopy Laboratory (Histology Guide) provides students with a flexible and accessible learning environment. 

Typical weekdays at the Department of Histology and Embryology

The main task of the Department of Pathological anatomy with Autopsy Course and Forensic Medicine is to improve the applied study of pathological processes and through clinical and morphological analysis to teach students to evaluate the essence of the disease, its clinical manifestations, as well as to solve the issues of forensic medical examination in cases of violent death. The classrooms of the department are equipped with multimedia equipment and plasma televisions, which provides a demonstration of micropreparations and analysis of pathological changes for the entire audience. The teacher’s workplace is equipped with a computer and a video system, which makes it possible to transfer images from the microscope to the TV screen, to show fragments of video films on the subject of the lesson.

 

Conducting practical classes by teachers of the Pathologic Anatomy, Autopsy course and Forensic Pathology 

The Department of Operative Surgery and Clinical Anatomy is equipped with 2 operating rooms, in the hallways there are educational stands with surgical instruments. During practical classes, students conduct operative interventions on research animals under the guidance of a teacher, which allows to consolidate the acquired theoretical knowledge with practical activities. After all, clinical anatomy and operative surgery is a subject that combines theory and practice, anatomy and surgery.

Educational process at the department of operative surgery with topographical anatomy 

The teachers of the Institute of Morphology departments have high professional skills, and are included in the rating of the best teachers, lecturers, and the disciplines occupy the top 5 in the TNMU rating according to the results of the survey of students of the medical and dentistry faculties. 

In the conditions of the adaptive quarantine introduced in our country, lectures, practical classes, consultations and exams were held online according to the schedule using Microsoft Teams software.

 Online learning process 

From the beginning of the fall semester of the 2022-2023 academic year, in connection of the full-scale war, as soon as an air raid alert is announced in Ternopil, all participants of the educational process head to the shelter. In this way, teachers of the Institute of Morphology conduct practical classes in the shelter. 

 

The educational process in the shelter of the Institute of Morphology 

The publishing activity of the employees of the Institute of morphology departments, who participate in the preparation of textbooks, manuals used in Higher education Institutions of Ukraine 1-4 levels of accreditation, writing atlases, monographs, to improve and optimize the teaching of academic disciplines by students of all faculties in Ukrainian and English languages.

On April 17-19, 2019, the II stage of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in the professionally oriented discipline “Human Anatomy” took place on the basis of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Morphology of the Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University.

Participants, organizers and jury members of the Olympiad 

The II stage of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad consisted of three rounds. During the first, the participants had to give written answers to theoretical questions. In the second round, computer testing took place in all sections of the academic discipline, including questions from the task bank of the “Krok-1” licensed exam. During the third round, students had to demonstrate anatomical formations on the prepared physical body, skeleton bones and wet specimens. 

Performance of practical tasks by students participating in the Olympiad 

Winners of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in the professionally oriented discipline “Human Anatomy” 

On March 30, 2017, the second round of the All-Ukrainian Subject Olympiad in Pathomorphology took place at the Institute of Morphology of Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University.

Photo in memory of Olympiad participants 

The competition took place in several rounds: the jury assessed the Olympiad participants’ knowledge of all sections of the academic discipline, practical skills in diagnosing microscopic manifestations of pathological processes and diseases. There was also the “Clinical-pathological-anatomical parallels” competition for the ability to conduct a clinical-morphological analysis based on cause-and-effect relationships and the “Erudyt” competition for knowledge of the contribution of prominent pathologists to patho-anatomical sciences and knowledge of eponyms in pathomorphology. 

Completion of tasks by Student Olympiad participants

Winners of the All-Ukrainian Subject Olympiad in Pathomorphology in various nominations 

As part of the project “Feel like a student of TNMU!” future entrants attended a master class at the Department of Human Anatomy. Associate professor of the department Ihor Boimistruk conducted a tour of the department and the anatomical museum. 

Excursion to the Department of Anatomy together with Associate Professor Ihor Boimystruk 

This initiative was also supported by the Department of Histology and Embryology. Assistant Professor Nataliіa Ohinska conducted a tour of the electron microscopy laboratory and the laboratory of immunohistochemical and immunocytochemical studies, also familiarized the applicants with the structure and rules of working with a light-optical microscope and conducted a typical lesson on the discipline “Histology, cytology and embryology”.

Assistant Professor Nataliia Ohinska together with entrants 

Departments of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Morphology participated in the Open Doors day at the Ternopil National Medical University. Associate Professor of the Department of Pathologic Anatomy, Autopsy course and Forensic Pathology Anna Mykolenko and Associate Professor of the Department of Human Anatomy Taras Stravskyy introduced the entrants to the museums and the educational process.

Open Doors day at Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine 

At the Educational and Scientific Institute of Morphology, considerable attention is paid to raising the professional level of teachers. Improving the qualifications of teachers is carried out through mutual attendance of practical and lecture classes, as well as through academic mobility. 

Associate Professor Oleksandra Halytska-Kharkhalis as part of the delegation of Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, as part of the “Visiting professor” program, gave a lecture “Anatomy of cranial nerves” in English for students of the medical faculty of the Academy of Applied Medical and Social Sciences in Elbląg (Republic of Poland). 

Docent Oleksandra Halytska-Kharkhalis, participant of the “Visiting professor” program

From May 9 to 13, 2022, Associate Professor of the Department of Histology and Embryology Solomiya Kramar completed an internship under the Erasmus+ KA107 program. Teaching Staff mobility” at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Solomiya Kramar interned at the department of morphological sciences under the guidance of the head of the department, Professor Jose Luis Labandeira-Garcia and accompanied by the department secretary Ana Isabel Rodríguez-Perez. Solomiya Kramar also got acquainted with the organization of research work of the Department of Morphological Sciences, having visited the Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases (CIMUS) for this purpose. 

Associate Professor Solomiya Kramar conducts practical classes for students of the Department of Morphological Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela

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