New Era in Medical Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

New Era in Medical Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Pedagogy and didactics; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

During the spring of 2020, due to the advancing pandemic of Covid-19, there was a need to move teaching to the online environment in a short time. This need has affected all universities in Europe, but the position of medical faculties is specific in the fact that a large part of teaching takes place in the form of practical exercises and clinical practice, as well as in the fact that senior students were heavily involved in volunteering, which placed great demands on their time possibilities, which are limited even in normal times due to the complexity of the study.

The main goal of the project “New Era in Medical Education (NEWMED)” is to rationalize online teaching at the participating medical faculties thanks to the unified methodological guidance of academics in the preparation of syllabi and online study materials for students.

The primary target group of the proposed project are academic staff from the involved partner institutions, for whom the rapid transition to online teaching during the spring of 2020 meant a great burden. The secondary target group, which will benefit from the implementation of the NEWMED project, will be students of the participating medical faculties.

The NEWMED project implementation will be performed by the staff of Masaryk University (MU – leading organization), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJS).

Within the submitted project, three intellectual outputs will be created:
1) Detailed analysis of transition to online teaching – the transition to online teaching at the participating institutions during the spring of 2020 will be analysed in detail and, based on the analysis, recommendations for the creation of further intellectual outputs will be determined.
2) Methodological manual – the team of methodologists will prepare an electronic methodological manual for academic staff of medical faculties, in which they will present to them suitable teaching methods for specific courses, suitable testing methods and acquaint them with the preparation of effective online study materials.
3) Implementation guide – this intellectual output will supplement the methodological manual with instructions for the implementation of the created online study materials into the information systems of partner universities.

The results of the project will be presented at three multiplier events during the project implementation period.

Through the implementation of the NEWMED project, the methodological guidance of academics at the participating medical faculties will be improved, the quality of online teaching will rise and, indirectly, the quality of health care provided by graduates of partner faculties will be improved.

The project will be implemented for 24 months.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132035 Eur

Project Coordinator

Masarykova univerzita & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS
• UNIVERZITA PAVLA JOZEFA SAFARIKA V KOSICIACH