PROGRAMS
MEDICAL DOCTOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM – MEDICINE
Program details:
- The program has 360 ECTS and includes 6 years of teaching. It consists of compulsory (326 ECTS) and
- optional (34 ECTS) components, 12 –of which are for language components.
- The duration of the academic year is 38 weeks
- Number of semesters – 2 (each semester 19 weeks)
- Duration of the study period – 15 weeks
- Duration of session periods – 2 weeks
- Make up / Retake – 2 weeks
Program Goal
The aim of the program is to prepare competent, compassionate, just, experienced medical doctors, who will possess necessary theoretical knowledge, practical skills and values, defined by descriptor of competences of medical education in Georgia and by learning objectives of basic medical education by TUNING/MEDINE project, which will enable them to successfully continue medical education, enroll in Masters and Doctoral programs, apply for clinical positions of junior doctor, participate in scientific and academic activities in Georgia, as well as in other countries; graduates of the course will be ready to continuously improve their knowledge and skills, and with their professional work facilitate improvement of health and wellbeing of local communities as well as global society
Outcomes
Methods for Attaining Learning Outcomes:
• Lecture
• Theoretical Teaching (Interactive Seminars and Lectures)
• Theoretical and practical learning – Seminars
• Studying video movies
• Videos for teaching
• Videos for learning
• Problem based learning (PBL)
• Case-based learning (CBL)
• Role playing
• Playing patient/doctor roles
• Communication with patients
• Teaching through standardized patients
• Team Work
• Team working with resuscitative patient
• Practical studies
• Learning with help of simulators
• Learning with usage of simulator
• Scenarios based simulation training
• Teaching through standardized patients
• Clinical rotation in Clinical skills training and simulation center
• Teaching in clinical and simulation environment
• Practical task under the supervision
• Practice under indirect supervision
• Bedside Teaching
Knowledge and understanding
- Deep and systematic knowledge of biomedical sciences
- Knowledge and understanding of the basic principles, processes, methods and general concepts of behavioral and social sciences.
- Broad knowledge of clinical sciences in various medical specialties and subspecialties, including critical understanding of theories and principles and some of the latest aspects of knowledge.
- Broad knowledge of medicines and their appointment, which includes a critical understanding of theories and principles, and some of the latest aspects of knowledge.
- Broad knowledge of public health: disease prevention and health promotion, disease screening and supervision, epidemiology, resource allocation and health economics, global health and inequality.
- Broad knowledge of ethical and legal principles related to medical practice and research, including critical understanding of theories and principles, and some of the latest aspects of knowledge.
- Knowledge of organizing healthcare organizations and systems and understanding the role of the physician in this system
Skills
- Carry out a consultation with a patient
- Assess clinical presentations, order investigations, make differential diagnoses, and negotiate a management plan
- Providing first aid in emergency medical situations (First aid and resuscitation measures)
- Drug prescription
- Conducting Practical Procedures
- Communicate effectively in a medical context
- The use of Ethic and Legal Principles in Medical Practice
- Evaluation of psychological and social aspects regarding patients’ disease.
- The use of knowledge, skills and principles based on evidence
- Use information and information technology effectively in a medical context
- Ability to apply scientific principles, method and knowledge to medical practice and research
- Implementation of health promoting events, engage with public healthcare issues, efficient performance within the healthcare system
- Professionalism
Responsibility and autonomy
- Appreciate the necessity of lifelong learning and continuous professional development in medical profession
- Use ethical, legal principals and protect patients’ rights
- Communicate, Negotiate and resolve conflicts in professional context with anyone, despite their social, cultural, religious or ethnic affiliation
- Establish relationships with patients and colleagues based on equality, social and liberal values
Teaching Process Characteristics:
The program consists of theoretical and laboratory teaching, as well as practice, which is implemented within the courses based on the thematic direction. Theoretical lectures can be concurrently conducted in two and more groups. A semester offers clinical rotations of medical profiles that consider daily and intensive teaching and is organized as in the university campus as well as in the affiliated medical institutions. The students’ number in laboratory and practical groups is not more than 15. The practical training is conducted using mentor system, as for the evaluation of clinical and professional skills the structured (integrated) evaluation system in simulation and clinical setting is used.
International students must choose the Georgian language with total of 12 credits, from the block of mandatory elective subjects. If they choose a 6-credit Georgian language subject, it is taken once a year, during the fall or spring semester, which must be completed before the start of clinical studies.
Georgian-speaking students, from the block of mandatory elective subjects, mandatorily choose the English language a total of 12 credits, once a year, in the fall or spring semester.
Program Core |
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Code |
Subject |
ECTS |
Semester |
| MD231110E | Human Body – Structure and Function I | 10 | 1 |
| MD231120E | Biochemistry I | 4 | 1 |
| MD231130E | Genetics and Molecular biology I | 3 | 1 |
| MD231140E | Introduction to Medical Profession | 2 | 1 |
| MEDE1125E | English for Medics | 5 | 1 |
| HELM231250E | Introduction to Public Health | 2 | 2 |
| MD231210E | Human Body – Structure and Function II | 10 | 2 |
| MD231220E | Biochemistry II | 4 | 2 |
| MD231230E | Genetics and molecular biology II | 3 | 2 |
| MD231240E | Basic Microbiology and Bacteriology | 4 | 2 |
| MD231290E | Clinical Skills I | 4 | 2 |
| HELM232150E | Fundamentals of Bioethics and Medical law | 3 | 3 |
| MD232110E | Human Body – Structure and Function III | 10 | 3 |
| MD232120E | Biochemistry III | 4 | 3 |
| MD232130E | Ecology and General Hygiene | 3 | 3 |
| MD232140E | Virology, Mycology and Parasitology | 3 | 3 |
| MD232190E | Research Skills I | 4 | 3 |
| MD232210E | Human Body – Structure and Function IV | 10 | 4 |
| MD232220E | Biochemistry IV | 4 | 4 |
| MD232230E | Fundamentals of Pathology | 5 | 4 |
| MD232240E | Immunology and Medical Microbiology | 4 | 4 |
| MD232290E | Clinical Skills II | 4 | 4 |
| HELM233150E | Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health | 6 | 5 |
| MD233110E | Clinical Pathology I | 6 | 5 |
| MD233120E | Basics of Disease and Diagnosis I | 7 | 5 |
| MD233130E | Sociology of health and disease | 3 | 5 |
| MD233140E | Basic pharmacology I | 5 | 5 |
| MD233210E | Clinical Pathology II | 6 | 6 |
| MD233220E | Basics of Disease and Diagnosis II | 7 | 6 |
| MD233230E | Introduction to psychology for medical professions | 3 | 6 |
| MD233240E | Basic pharmacology II | 5 | 6 |
| MD233250E | Fundamentals of Radiology | 4 | 6 |
| MD233260E | Research Skills II | 2 | 6 |
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Credits sum: |
159 | ||
Program Elective |
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Code |
Subject |
ECTS |
|
| HELM2287E | Marketing of Public Health | 6 | |
| MD231160E | Fundamentals of Laboratory Practice | 3 | |
| HELM231320E | Health Promotion | 3 | |
| HELM233321E | Introduction to Healthcare Database Planning and Management | 6 | |
| HELM233330E | Healthcare Informatics | 3 | |
| HELM233341E | Medical Tourism and Telemedicine | 6 | |
| HELM234150E | SPSS: Data Analysis and Formation in Healthcare | 3 | |
| MD236311E | Pharmacotherapy | 4 | |
| MD236320E | Practice in Laboratory Medicine | 3 | |
| MD236331E | Modern Ophthalmology | 4 | |
| MD236340E | Reproductive Medicine | 5 | |
| MD236350E | Family medicine, advanced course | 5 | |
| MD236360E | Trauma in Emergency Medicine | 5 | |
| MD236370E | Cardiovascular Surgery | 5 | |
Mandatory Elective |
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| Code | Subject | ECTS | |
| ENGL1330 | English for Medics (communication with Patient) | 6 | |
| ENGL1340 | English for Medics( Hospital&Clinic) | 6 | |
| KART1119 | Georgian I | 3 | |
| KART1219 | Georgian II | 3 | |
| KART2119 | Georgian III | 3 | |
| KART2219 | Georgian IV | 3 | |
| LING0001 | Medical Georgian I | 3 | |
| LING0002 | Medical Georgian II | 3 | |
| LING0003 | Medical Georgian III | 3 | |
| LING0004 | Medical Georgian IV | 3 | |
| LING0011 | Medical Georgian as a Foreign Language I | 6 | |
| LING0013 | Medical Georgian as a Foreign Language II | 6 | |
| ENGL1110E | General English I | 6 | |
| ENGL1120E | General English II | 6 | |
| KART1141 | Georgian, as a second language I | 6 | |
| KART1241 | Georgian, as a second language II | 6 | |
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Credits sum: |
72 | ||
Clinical studies |
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| Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
| MD234110E | Internal Medicine I | 14 | 7 |
| MD234120E | Surgery I | 14 | 7 |
| MD234130E | Introduction to family medicine | 2 | 7 |
| MD234210E | Obstetrics | 6 | 8 |
| MD234220E | Neurology | 8 | 8 |
| MD234240E | Traumatology and Orthopedics | 4 | 8 |
| MD234250E | Dermatology | 2 | 8 |
| MD234260E | Infectious Diseases | 6 | 8 |
| nMD234230E | Hematology, transfusiology | 4 | 8 |
| MD235110E | Internal Medicine II | 14 | 9 |
| MD235120E | Pediatrics | 8 | 9 |
| MD235130E | Gynecology | 8 | 9 |
| MD235210E | Surgery II | 10 | 10 |
| MD235220E | Anesthesiology and Reanimatology | 6 | 10 |
| MD235240E | Emergency Medicine | 6 | 10 |
| nMD235230E | Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology | 8 | 10 |
| HELM232210E | Health Care Management | 6 | 11 |
| MD236120E | Clinical thinking, Differential diagnosis | 5 | 11 |
| MD236140E | Family Medicine | 6 | 11 |
| MD236150E | Clinical Pharmacology | 4 | 11 |
| MD236160E | Oncology | 4 | 11 |
| MD236170E | Palliative care | 2 | 11 |
| nMD236130E | Basics of Alternative Medicine | 3 | 11 |
| HELM236210E | Fundamentals of health care quality and patient safety | 6 | 12 |
| MD236220E | Small Clinical Research | 5 | 12 |
| MD236230E | Forensic Medicine | 4 | 12 |
| MD236280E | Clinical Skills III | 2 | 12 |
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Credits sum: |
167 | ||
Matrix Of Privequisites
Evaluation system
The following assessment system is used in the semester subjects of the program:
Current Assessment (Quiz) (weekly or daily) 39 points
Research paper or other activity that may provide for presentation. 21 points
Final exam 40 points
A total of 100 points
The following assessment system is used for clinical studies:
Ongoing assessment (may consist of a written component
And from assessment of participation in practice) 40 points
Resesarch paper and presentation. 20 points
Final exam 40 points
A total of 100 points
| Point | GPA | The university assessment | The general assessment in Georgia | |
| 97-100 | 4,00 | A+ | A | Excellent |
| 94-96 | 3,75 | A | ||
| 91-93 | 3,50 | A- | ||
| 87-90 | 3,25 | B+ | Very good | |
| 84-86 | 3,00 | B | B | |
| 81-83 | 2,75 | B- | ||
| 77-80 | 2,50 | C+ | C | good |
| 74-76 | 2,25 | C | ||
| 71-73 | 2,00 | C- | ||
| 67-70 | 1,75 | D+ | D | Satisfactory |
| 64-66 | 1,50 | D | ||
| 61-63 | 1,25 | D- | ||
| 51-60 | 1,00 | E | E | Sufficient |
| Not passed | ||||
| 41-50 | FX | FX | Insufficient | |
| <40 | F | F | Failed | |