Peculiarities of Teaching Medical Informatics and Statistics

• Main Author: Sergey Glushkov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) 2017-05-01
• Series: BCES Conference Books
• Subjects: education; Medical Informatics; Medical Statistics; information technology; methods and organizational forms of education
• Online Access: http://bces-conference-books.org/onewebmedia/2017.252-256.Sergey.Glushkov.pdf

The article reviews features of teaching Medical Informatics and Statistics. The course is referred to the disciplines of Mathematical and Natural sciences. The course is provided in all the faculties of I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. For students of Preventive Medicine Department the time frame allotted for studying the course is significantly larger than for similar course provided at other faculties. To improve the teaching methodology of the discipline an analysis of the curriculum has been carried out, attendance and students’ performance statistics have been summarized. As a result, the main goals and objectives have been identified. Besides, general educational functions and the contribution to the solution of problems of education, students’ upbringing and development have been revealed; two stages of teaching have been presented. Recommendations referred to the newest methodological development aimed at improving the quality of teaching the discipline are provided. The ways of improving the methods and organizational forms of education are outlined.