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CEEPUS-international cooperation in the education of medical biochemists

With respect to the current changes in the national system of higher education, aimed at satisfying the high educational standards of the European Union in compliance with the Bologna process and the development of the profession, the Faculty has undertaken a series of measures to reform the teaching process. Changes including the introduction of a larger number of elective subjects, problem-based teaching and learning (PBL) and obligatory mobility of the students will enable them better profiling and training for modern professional and research challenges. Good introduction in this manner was made in 1996, when Republic of Croatia signed agreement with other central and eastern European countries in promoting cooperation in the field of higher education within the framework of the Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies (CEEPUS). Cooperation in the field of higher education between the contracting parties has been realised in particular inter-university cooperation and mobility of students and teaching staff. Students registered at universities, are eligible for support within the CEEPUS programme, up to and including doctoral or post graduate level, provided that the period of study or training at the host university, which is compatible with the curriculum at the student’ s home university, forms part of his or her university studies. Since 1996, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Hematology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry has been coordinator of the CEEPUS project with eleven partner universities from Central and Eastern European countries. In the frame of this project, students of medical biochemistry used to spend one to three months abroad during their study period. Attending the lectures, working on diploma thesis or obligatory summer practice were the main types of instructions in the frame of the project for them. Each year in the frame of the project, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry organised summer school based on multidisciplinary approach to the selected topic, with international participation of the professors and students of medical biochemistry, pharmacy, medicine and dental medicine. Achievements of this project has been mainly in better education of medical biochemists for the needs of the increasingly demanding modern practice within the health care system.

education; medical biochemists

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