ERASMUS+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project SPRING “SETTING PEER REVIEW INSTRUMENTS AND GOALS FOR MEDICAL (HEALTH) EDUCATION”
Tbilisi State Medical University is a partner institution in the ERASMUS+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project SPRING “SETTING PEER REVIEW INSTRUMENTS AND GOALS FOR MEDICAL (HEALTH) EDUCATION”(project 609528-EPP-1-2019-1-GE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP).
The ultimate goal of this project is to enhance quality of medical/health education in the countries of Eastern Partnership (Georgia, Moldova, Belarus) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan) through setting instruments and goals of peer review. 12 institutions in 5 partner countries will take an advantage of knowledge and expertise share from 2 institutions from Bulgaria and Lithuania. The relative uniformity of problems in higher medical/health education in partner countries are derived from the common past.
The project will ensure that the achieved results are sustainable and being exploited in the foreseeable future by establishing an annual scientific-practical journal of “Peer Review in Medical/Health Education for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (PRIMED-EECA)” and an independent cross-national Peer Review Association for Medical/Health Education of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (PRAMED-EECA) aimed at:
a. Providing a pool of highly qualified and readily available peer reviewers; and
b. Assisting medical schools in the targeted regions in effectively preparing for international accreditation.
In 2020-2021 the administrative and academic staff of TSMU participated in ERASMUS+project SPRING Distance Learning Peer Review Awareness Raising Seminars “Quality Assurance in Medical and Public Health Education” and “Training of Academic and Administrative Personnel in Peer Review and International Accreditation”
The coordinating institution BAU International University, Batumi (as a grant holder) and its representative prof. Leven Metreveli provided leadership in this project.
The seminar has been led by the field experts from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (Kaunas, Lithuania) and the Medical University - Sofia (Sofia,Bulgaria).
In June 2021 2 staff members from TSMU participated in peer reviewing process of Grodno State Medical University and International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University.