SIMULATIVE METHODS IN SOLUTION OF THE MULTILEVEL SITUATION TASKS IN THE STAGE II OF UKRAINIAN STUDENT’S OLYMPIAD IN ENDOCRYNOLOGY

Abstract

The article presents a modern methodology of the conducting the stage II All-Ukrainian Student’s Olympiad by using the simulation techniques. There was the using of evaluation the theoretical knowledge such a test tasks, the solution of situational tasks, the interpretation of the laboratory and instrumental methods of examination and also the solution the modified emergency condition in the interactive mode for the purpose students to engage the active scientific work, motivation for each intellectual abilities, development of their communicative qualities. The Student’s Olympiad was passed in the four tours: I – writing the test tasks, II – solution the situation tasks with increased complexity, III – solution the modified emergency condition in the interactive mode, IV – solution the practical tasks with interpretation the laboratory and instrumental methods of examination. The students were required the synthesis not only the endocrinology knowledge, getting during the studying in the university, but also the related disciplines, such as cardiology, pharmacology, laboratory and instrumental diagnostics. The main place in the preparation the student was taken the skill, using of semiotics standard and treatment during the working with the virtual patient. The winners in the stage II of All-Ukrainian Student’s Olympiad in Endocrinology with the most scored points became the participants from I. Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University (I place), Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University and Sumy State Medical University (II place), and also Lviv National Medical University and Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy (III place).

The solution of the modified emergency condition in the interactive mode will allow students to develop the speed of clinical thinking and to provide the urgent care to the patient in different clinical conditions.