Improving the thematic assessment of students’ knowledge in histology of the medical university in accordance with the credit-modular training system

Objective. Improving educational programs at the Department of Histology and finding the most optimal approach to assessing students in accordance with the credit-module system of education.

Material and methods. At present, the Department of Histology of the Non-governmental educational institution “Medical-Social Institute of Tajikistan” conducts lectures and practical classes in the second semester of the first year and in the third semester of the second year of the following faculties: “General Medicine”, “Dentistry”, “Medical Psychology” and foreign students on a credit-modular system. The department delivers lectures and conducts practical classes in three languages: state, Russian and English in the subjects of “Histology”, “Embryology” and “Microanatomy”. As the main form of work with students, the department traditionally combines two types of activities: 1) classroom classes, including lectures and practical exercises (independent work with a teacher); 2) independent work of students (SIW).

Research results and discussion. Changing the conditions for assessing students in the framework of the Bologna system of education requires the improvement of the methodology for conducting practical classes in the course of histology. Each practical lesson in histology consists of the following stages: 1) preliminary independent study by the student of the relevant section of the textbook and lectures, independent work of students (SIW); 2) checking the assimilation of the material by the teacher; 3) independent study by students of histological preparations under a microscope; 4) students’ sketching of micropreparations with the designation of all structures in individual albums (SIRS).

Assessment of students’ knowledge in 3 stages: 1) current control - all types of educational work are taken into account (classroom and extracurricular - SIWT, SIW); 2) midterm (rating) control - conducted at least 2 times during the semester at the department in the form of tests and situational tasks; 3) final control - is carried out after the completion of the academic discipline at the 3rd semester of the 2nd year at the Department in the form of passing exams in the discipline - histology.

Conclusions: 1. To obtain a high individual and overall rating of students, it is necessary to follow the optimal algorithm for conducting a practical lesson, which involves the submission of material by a teacher with the obligatory consideration of the basic level of students’ preparation.

2. The use of 3-stage control (current, midterm and final) will allow to fully assess the conformity of the acquired knowledge, skills and abilities of students in the discipline, as well as to widely introduce modern innovative technologies in the educational process, the resources of which are provided by the Institute.

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