Luminar 4.1.1.5343 Multilingual Crack
Thao Hoga
The consortium consists of eight members: Luminar Foundation (Poland), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Atlantic Language (Ireland), Medical University of Warsaw (Poland), Medical University of Gdańsk (Poland), Jagiellonian University Medical College (Poland), Semmelweis University (Hungary) and University of Pecs Medical School (Hungary). Luminar Foundation from Poland is the Project Coordinator. We present the Partners below.
In its daily work between the editions of the Leadership Forum, Luminar Foundation helps to increase cooperation between the universities in Central and Eastern Europe in the various aspects of internationalisation, engaging in bilateral cooperation, contributing to research and developing new tools in internationalisation. Luminar Foundation also increasingly cooperates with secondary and primary schools on the issues on internationalisation of education, especially in the aspects of global teaching and learning. Luminar Foundation performs analyses, needs assessments, programme evaluations and other services to better serve the international education community.
KI participants will add value to the Project through their expertise in teaching in an international context and experience of intercultural communication. Teachers at KI are encouraged to disseminate their teaching and learning competences within communities of practice and spread their new knowledge to other colleagues through designated fora. By participating in this Partnership and implementing its recommendations, KI wishes to further enhance the quality of teaching and learning for all its teaching staff and students. It is expected that the academics involved will contribute to creating communities of practice and knowledge transfer after their participation in the project. Each programme has an academic responsible for internationalisation of education, and an academic responsible for pedagogical development who are key persons to involve in this project.
Atlantic Language is a premium English language school, located in Ireland with centres in Galway and Dublin, which has been providing English language courses for international students for 25 years. Atlantic Language is recognised by Eaquals as a provider of excellence in language education, ACELS, a service of Quality and Qualifications Ireland, for English Language Teaching (ELT) and is a member of Quality English, ALTO, and MEI and a recognised Erasmus+ course provider associated with Leargas.
The Medical University of Gdańsk (MUG) is the largest medical university in northern Poland and is recognized as renowned institution with a long history of teaching and research in the Life Sciences field. MUG educates more than 6000 undergraduate and postgraduate students at 4 Faculties:
The MUG, within English Division (ED), offers Premedical Course, Medicine Doctor Programme, Pharmacy Programme, Nursing Programme which are taught fully in English. In 2019 ED was educating 877 students in all above mentioned programmes and courses. For the purpose of ensuring high quality education and covering all necessary fields of expertise MUG employs 807 academic staff delegated to teaching ED students in English language. In years preceding the preparation of the project MUG embraced teachers with support of development professional competences related to teaching. Adaptation and implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a next step towards better teaching of medicine in English within English Divison of MUG. Increasing diversity of students requires equipping academics, teaching medical and healthcare sciences in English, with skills allowing them to work effectively in multicultural and multilingual classrooms. By adapting certain material from course onto CLIL methodology, the implementation of pilot at MUG will be introduced.
Jagiellonian University (JU), founded in 1364 and located in Krakow, educates students at 15 faculties at all three levels, following the principles of the Bologna Process. There are over 80 degrees and specialties available in Polish, as well as over a dozen in English. The School of Medicine teaching in English at the Faculty of Medicine, as a division of Collegium Medicum, currently educates nearly 700 students coming from five different continents and twenty countries. They are taught by 784 lecturers.The majority of students enrolled are Norwegian, American and Canadian nationals. The Department of Medical Education (DME) at the College of Medicine at Jagiellonian University (CM UJ) is a team of over 50 specialists who run courses using the latest didactic methods such as team-based learning, problem-based learning, skills laboratories, and medical simulation. The DME team is responsible for OSCE organisation. Lecturers are coordinating following subjects: introduction to clinical science; medical first aid; disaster medicine; emergency medicine; laboratory teaching of skills; professionalism and communication skills. They provide cyclical training for teaching staff in these modalities at the highest standard. With access to equipment and facilities that allow for the conduction of classes with a variety of didactic techniques, the DME has been key in innovating and rebuilding the medical school curriculum with regards to the teaching of doctor-patient communication and non-technical skills.
Since 2012, the DME has been organising an annual conference, the Medical Education Forum, focused on having experts present the latest on practical aspects of medical education, and in the same year started their partnership with the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University (Canada). The DME has been involved in presenting the results of scientific research in the field of medical education at the most important conferences in the field, including the Association for Medical Education in Europe and the Society for Simulation in Europe. The DME cooperates with institutions that play an important role in the American and European educational systems, such as NBME, AAMC, EBMA. Together with 30 other world-class medical universities around the globe, Jagiellonian University partakes in the Global Health Learning Opportunities (GHLO) project developed in cooperation with the AAMC. CM UJ would like to increase the knowledge of its academic teachers on the influence of intercultural diversity on the effectiveness of teaching and its quality. Academic teachers at CM UJ are not assessed in respect to such knowledge when they begin their work; the criteria to be hired include scientific and clinical experience and the ability to speak foreign languages. CM UJ is hopeful that its participation in CLILMED will improve its own teaching practice.
The curriculum in General Medicine consists of six years of studies, while the programs in Dentistry and in Pharmacy last five years. The medical curriculum is a traditional one in which the first 2 years are devoted to the firm establishment of foundational knowledge (such as Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology, etc.) and the third year is focusing on preclinical studies. During these years teaching occurs through lectures, seminars and real laboratory experiments. Examinations involve MCQs and oral exams. The clinical years (from 3rd to 6th) are arranged in a block system where the taught subjects vary in length and students are having a real and immersive experience of the clinical work while they acquire the necessary knowledge and competencies in small groups. The University is constantly striving to enhance the methodological knowledge of the academic staff and also puts emphasis on providing the best possible means to them in order to completely achieve the learning outcomes in the highly multicultural environment.
The University of Pcs with 10 faculties is one of few public higher education institutions in Hungary with a history rooting back to medieval Europe (est. 1367). The University of Pcs Medical School regularly scores above all other faculties of any Hungarian universities with a non-metropolitan learning environment. The English Medical Curriculum in Pcs launched 36 years ago and was the first of its kind in Central-Eastern Europe. Today, the University offers medical education in Hungarian, English and German languages for students coming from more than sixty countries.
In 2018 our leadership has set out ambitious goals for the next decade to meaningfully transform our traditions in guiding the learning process. Campus infrastructure is now being redesigned and new teaching facilities are built. As for intellectual renewal, the University of Pcs is the first Hungarian higher education institution with a Medical Faculty which has been certified by the Academic Cooperation Association in 2019 for its strategy in Internationalization at Home. We have recently established long term strategic teaching collaborations with Harvard University (US), Houston Methodist Hospital (US), Weill Cornell Medicine (US), University of Southern California (US), and Nanyang Technological University. As of the European Universities initiative of the European Union, Pcs is a member of the EDUC consortium led by the University of Potsdam, Germany. Based on existing research collaboration networks and Erasmus Mobility networks, strategic partnerships in education with prestigious European universities have been and are being established with Cambridge University, Zrich ETH, and Karolinska Institutet.
We believe that the natural sciences module of pre-clinical studies could be repurposed as powerful tools for developing communication skills and critical thinking in the new generations of doctors. A role for doctors is to be reestablished and reaffirmed in a globalised environment as communicators and efficient persuaders in the context of delivering complicated but crucial medical information for both patients and for the public. To achieve this objective, high-quality contents of key pre-clinical subjects could be combined with contextual literacy skills, using CLIL methodology. Our academic teachers involved in CLILMED project are associate professors of Anatomy, of Biochemistry, and of Physiology courses. Our experts are delegated from the Department of Languages for Biomedical Purposes, from the Department of Behavioural Sciences, and from our Quality Assurance Unit. The contribution of our experts in this project is co-funded by our institution.