КА2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

CAPACITY BUILDING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

ERASMUS+ КА2

«SETTING PEER REVIEW INSTRUMENTS AND GOALS FOR MEDICAL (HEALTH) EDUCATION» / SPRING

Project reference number 609528-EPP-1-2019-1-GE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

Realization: 2020-2023

List of partner institutions

Applicant institution:

BAU International University Batumi LTD (Batumi, Georgia)

Project coordinator – Professor Levan Metreveli, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor of Public Health, Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine BAU International University Batumi)

Web-site of the Project: http://www.bau-spring.ge/

Co-beneficiary institutions:

1. Tbilisi State Medical University (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2. Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy LLC (Tbilisi, Georgia)
3. Georgian National University SEU (Tbilisi, Georgia)
4. Nicolae Testeitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova)
5. Technical University of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova)
6. International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus)
7. Grodno State Medical University (Grodno, Belarus) Project coordinator in the co-beneficiary institution – Surmach Marina Yurievna, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare.
8. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University noncommercial joint stock company (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
9. Karaganda State Medical University (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)
10. The State Higher Educational Institution Avicenna Tajik State Medical University (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)
11. The State Higher Educational Institution Khatlon State Medical University (Danghara, Tajikistan)
12. Medical University Sofia (Sofia, Bulgaria)
13. Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (Kaunas, Lithuania)

The aim of the project is to enhance the quality of medical education in the involved partner countries and contribute to the onset of changes of the same character in the rest of former Soviet countries.

Through various activities on capacity building, peer reviewing, exchanging experience, creating the foundation for sustainable development and further dissemination of final results of the project, the consortium of 14 higher educational institutions from 7 countries intends to achieve the following results:

1. raising awareness on peer review process as an effective instrument for substantiating ongoing improvements in academic and administrative domains of medical schools in targeted partner countries and beyond;
2. establishing a multinational peer review board (MPRB);
3. establishing and building consistency for a continuous peer-review process of academic programs and processes and administrative policies, procedures and actions across the targeted partner countries and beyond;
4. capacity building of faculty members and administrative staff;
5. establishing an annual scientific-practical journal of “Peer Review in Medical/Health Education for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (PRIMED-EECA)”;
6. enhancing internationalization of HEIs in partner countries;
7. disseminating information on project achievements and other final products to participant institutions in program and partner countries.

The project will ensure the sustainability of the achieved results and their application in the very near future through the establishment of the above mentioned journal and independent cross-national “Peer Review Association for Medical/Health Education of Eastern Europe and Central Asia – PRAMED-EECA)” aimed at:

а. providing the group of highly qualified reviewers;

б. assisting medical education institutions of the targeted regions in the effective preparation for international accreditation.

Multinational Peer Review Board (MPRB) Meeting was hold

06 May 2021 — 16:25

Multinational Peer Review Board (MPRB) Meeting

was hold May 05, 2021 online

Attendees:

A. MPRB appointed members: 

1. Prof. Levan Metreveli, Professor of Public Health, BAU International University, Batumi, Georgia 

2. Dr. Evelina Ghergheleghiu, Head of the Department for International Relations, State  University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolae Testemițanu”, Moldova 

3. Prof. Aliaksei Sysa, Dean of Environmental Medicine Faculty, International Sakharov  Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University, Belarus 

4. Prof. Viktor P. Riklefs, Vice Rector, Karaganda Medical University, Kazakhstan 

5. Rukhshona Sohibnazarova, Khatlon State Medical University, Khatlon Tajikistan  

6. Prof. Karolina Lyubomirova, Vice Rector, Medical University – Sofia, Bulgaria 

7. Prof. Linas Šumskas, Professor of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Lithuanian  University of Health Sciences, Lithuania 

B. MPRB associate members: 

1. Prof. Antoniya Yanakieva, Head of Department of Health Technology Assessment, Medical University – Sofia, Bulgaria 

2. Maryna Surmach, Head of the Department of Public Health and Health Services. Grodno  Medical University, Belarus 

3. Yanina Razvadouskaya, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Grodno Medical  University, Belarus 

The Zoom  platform was offered by Lithuanian University of Health Sciences for this one hour meeting, which  started at 11:00  and finished at 13:40 a.m. EEST.   

Seven members  of the  project Board out of nine (quorum was provided) took part in the meeting. In addition, three  associate members of the Board (representatives of project partner universities) took part in the  meeting. 

Grodno State Medical University was represented by 2 participants, because parallel international accreditation of university is required the participation of M. Yu. Surmach in the accreditation of the university. In the period from 11.25 ti1l 3.00, the Department of Public Health and Public Health passed the examination procedure by an expert from the International accreditation commission.

The following Board meeting agenda was approved: 

1) Discussion on the process of preparation of Self-Evaluation Reports. 

2) Establishment of 4 expert crews/teams for peer review evaluation missions and suggestions for  peer review crew missions: timetables, baseline and follow-up missions. 

3) Other SPRING project activities and work packages, other important issues.

It was marked, that GRSMU have presented Self-Evaluation Report in time, in accordance with the requirements of 12 standards developed by the project management board.

After the long lasting discussions of the members of MPRB (on-line and on site mission  possibilities, also COVID-19 restrictions, SERs delays were discussed) the modified plan for  Baseline and Follow-up missions was proposed. More detailed schedule will be discussed, updated later in the 
oncoming MPRB meetings. 

Head of MPRB Prof. Linas Šumskas mentioned that the next MPRB meeting should be held before in the second part  of May, 2021, because MPRB rotation procedure should be conducted according the project Work plan.

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