Within the framework of the TEMPUS funded project “MUMEENA” an International Conference “Celebrating Achievements and Looking to the Future of Medical Education in Eastern Europe” will be held at Tbilisi State Medical University on July 1-2, 2014.
The conference will start on July 1, at 10 am in Academic Council Meeting Hall at administrative building of Tbilisi State Medical University (33, Vazha-Pshavela ave, 1 floor).
MUMEENA is the three-year EU-funded Tempus Project "Modernization of undergraduate medical education in the EU's Eastern Neighboring Countries", which has been implemented since 2011.
The Conference will be attended by all partner Universities involved in project implementation: University of Leeds (Great Britain), Utrecht University (the Netherlands), Granada University (Spain), Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), Ivano-Frankovsk National Medical University (Ukraine), O.Bohomolets National Medical University (Ukraine), Baku and Nakhichevan Medical Universities (Azerbaijan), Tbilisi State Medical University and I. Javakhishvili State University (Georgia). The Conference will be chaired by Prof. Trudie Roberts, TEMPUS project Coordinator, President of Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), Director of Institute of Medical Education at the University of Leeds. From partner universities the Conference will be attended by 25 foreign eminent representatives of the field.
The project was aimed to develop integrated undergraduate medical curriculum according to the standards defined bythe Association for Medical Education in Europe, Thematic Network on Medical Education in Europe MEDINE and the World Federation for Medical Education.
Within the framework of the project the special trainings on modern methodology of medical education - teaching and assessment and actual issues of medical education were arranged at Partner Universities of Europewith participation of internationally recognized eminentexperts; annual conferences were held; methodical recommendations /guidelines were prepared.
On the basis of the project Faculty Development Center was established at Tbilisi State Medical University, where since 2011staff training is conducted regularly.
The progress of the project was positively assessed by Mr. Klaus Haupt, representative of the European Commission in his official letter sent to Professor Trudie Roberts, coordinator of the project, President of the Association for Medical Education in Europe since May 2013. The letter indicates a great contribution of Tbilisi State Medical University in successful implementation of the project, namely, creation of Faculty Development Centre, developed due to joint effort of the university leadership and the project coordinator.
Project implementation and introduction of new teaching and assessment methods strictly increased the ranking of the Tbilisi State Medical University which actively participates in working groups of the main regulatory bodies in Europe - Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and MEDINE2, working on development of standards and normative/regulatory documents on medical education; it is noteworthy that only Tbilisi State Medical University and Ankara University are involved in the working groups of MEDINEfrom non-EU universities.