An online visit of SPRING project experts took place to conduct an instructional post-accreditation mission

On April 20, 2022, an online visit of SPRING project experts took place to conduct an instructional post-accreditation mission at the educational institution "Grodno State Medical University".

The post-accreditation mission took place in the form of four online sessions. The University administration, faculty, and students of the Medical for Faculty International Students attended Sessions 1 and 2. Session 3 was a review team meeting for making tentative summary conclusions. Session 4, the final session – debriefing and feedback session – was organized for providing recommendations and conclusion by the team of experts.

The experts were Prof. Leila Akhvlendiani, BAU Batumi International University, Faculty of Medicine, Batumi, Georgia; Prof. Ludmila Turgunova, Karaganda State Medical University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan; Assoc. Prof. Virginia Salaru, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy. N. Testemitanu, Chisinau, Moldova; Prof. Khuseyn Egamnazarov, Avicenna Tajik State University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

The expert team appreciated the high level of achievements of GrSMU and the great progress that our University has made since the date of base-line mission in June 2021.

The recommendations and suggestions were made to improve the English version of the University website; to provide more vivid information about the University for the potential foreign consumers of educational services; to organize student mobility and summer educational practice for students of the Medical Faculty for International Students; to support employees and students in the preparation of scientific publications in journals included in well-known knowledge-intensive databases; to involve students and alumni into the process of educational programs improvement. In the nearest future, the final recommendations and suggestions of the expert team will be submitted, and will be used to improve the quality of GrSMU further performance.

Grodno State Medical University has become the first among the consortium of universities united by the SPRING project, which successfully completed all three stages of the instructional accreditation procedure: the stage of self-assessment of the quality of activities, the stage of accreditation and the stage of the post-accreditation mission. The next university to conduct the post-accreditation mission, according to the work schedule of the SPRING project, will be the International State Ecological Institute named after A.D. Sakharov of the Belarusian State University.