This document provides an initial assessment of a proposed new Master's program at Yerevan State Medical University. It summarizes the status quo, including existing national legislation and Master's programs at the university. It then describes the proposed curriculum structure, learning outcomes, teaching methods, and requirements for the new Public Health Master's program. Key aspects covered include courses in hygiene, epidemiology, social medicine, management, and biostatistics. The program is designed to be 120 ECTS over two years and to prepare graduates for careers in public health organizations and health care management.

1. Yerevan State Medical University

2. Initial assessment of the
Master Program
 Accreditation documents and approvals
necessary – required internal accreditation
 Academic person in charge of the MA – A.
Tadevosyan
 Administrative person in charge of the MA
– M. Hovannisyan

3. Decision of the University to start the MA

4. Status quo report
 Analysis of the existing national legislation
 Since 2010 Armenia has introduced Bologna
process
 Three cycle system (bachelor-master-
doctorate)
 Credit transfer system
 Students’ and academics’ mobility
 Accreditation of European quality assurance
standards
 Continuous education

5. Status quo report
 Listof existing Master programs at
university
○ MD in General medicine
○ MD in Stomatology
○ MS in Pharmacy
○ MPH
○ MD in Military medicine
 Integrated Bachelor

6. Status quo report
 Curricula of existing MD (last year)
Specialization in preventive medicine
available thru residency
 Epidemiology – 1 year
 Hygiene - 1 year
 Organization of Health Care – 2 years

7. Status quo report
 Internal regulations of the University
regarding Master programs
procedures of grading assessment
procedures of ongoing knowledge
assessment
regulative documents of teaching
methods
procedures of admission and expulsion of
students

8.  Analysis of the political framework
Education Quality assessment and assurance
center was established in 2011.
Functions
 Analyzes of all components of quality of education
processes and assurance of their compliance with
strategy of university.
 Internal audit of education processes

9. Status quo report
 Analysis of existing resources in the
university
Facilities – 9 own, 8 – rented
12 auditoria in central campus
administrative staff – 101
academic staff – 643
PC – 674, scanner – 48, fax – 7, TV – 278,
projector – 85, audio/video player – 29,
Cameras – 230, photo camera – 12,
Xerox – 52

10. Library
 Books and journals – 91.595 names
 Total issue - 523.359 units
 18 Universities, Republican Medical and
National Academy of Science Libraries
Network
 Digitalization of library in a process

11. Basic Resources
 Faculty of Public Health
 Chair of Hygiene and Ecology
 Chair of Social Medicine and Medical Law
 Chair of Epidemiology
 Chair of Organization of Health Care and
Economics

12. Additional Resources
 Faculty of General Medicine
 Chair of Philosophy (Bioethics)
 Chair of Medical Psychology
 Chair of Infectious Diseases
 Faculty of Military Medicine

13. Curricula characteristics
 Hygiene
Environment and Health – 4.5 ECTS
Occupational Health – 3 ECTS
Nutrition and Health – 3 ECTS
Children and Adolescent Health – 1.5 ECTS
Total 12 ECTS

14. Hygiene
Learning outcomes
 Knowledge
 Environmental factors and their influence on health.
 Adaptation processes of human in different environmental
conditions.
 Use of environmental factors for preventive purposes.
 Principles of prevention of the negative consequences of work.
 Influence of occupational specific factors on health.
 Assessment of occupational factors.
 Alimentary diseases.
 Nutrition as a social factor.
 Assessment methods of health status of children and adolescent.
 Specific factors influencing on health of children and adolescent.

15. Hygiene
Learning outcomes
 Skills
 To be able to measure and assess the
environmental factors
 To be able to use environmental factors for
preventive purposes
 To be able to measure and assess occupational
factors
 To be able to assess quality of food.
 To be able to provide hygienic assessment of
children populaion

16. Curricula characteristics
 Epidemiology – 15 ECTS
 General epidemiology
 Special epidemiology
 Communicable diseases
 Non-communicable diseases

17. Curricula characteristics
 Social Medicine
 Health concepts, health indicators 3 ECTS (?)
 Health risk communication/media communication 1.5 (?)
 Social Changes and Health 1.5 (?)
 Health Policy 1.5
 Social work and social work technologies 1.5
 Leadership 1.5
 Health promotion, empowerment
 Problem solving

18. Social Medicine
Learning outcomes
 Knowledge
 Research methodology of population
morbidity, mortality, reproduction and disability.
 Research methodology of diseases, which are
social issue.
 Organization and assessment of work of
inpatient and outpatient health care facilities.
 Basics of organization and assessment of
hygienic and antiepidemic services.

19. Social Medicine
Learning outcomes
 Skills
 To be able to use official healthcare statistical
data.
 To be able to use appropriate methodology for
research of medico social problems of public
health.
 To be able to assess health care indicators.
 To be able to organize hygienic and
antiepidemic services.
 To be able to work out and implement preventive
programs to control risk factors, and assess
their effectiveness.

20. Curricula characteristics
 Management and Marketing
 Marketing and social marketing
 Health economics
 Hospital administration
 Organization of Health Care Delivery
 Health Care Systems – comparative Study

21. Marketing
Learning outcomes
 Knowledge
 Basics of marketing, main staitments and problems.
 Pecularities of market of medical servicies.
 Mechanisms and pecularities of price formation of
medical servicies and items.
 Demend of medical servicies and items.
 Mechanisms and methods of advertising of medical
servicies.
 Leasing in healthcare system.
 Content and characteristics of social marketing.

22. Marketing
Learning outcomes
 Skills
 To be able to organize and implement marketing
researches in healthcare field.
 To be able to assess demand of medical servicies
and items, to organize their development and
advertisment.
 To be able to chose appropriate methods of price
formation and to form competitive prices for medical
servicies and items.
 To be able to organize leasing in healthcare system.
 To be able to organize social marketing procedures.

23. Management
Learning outcomes
 Knowledge
 Basic rules of organization development
 Basic rules of collisions and problem development in
organization and managment methods.
 Basic procedures and methods of managment.
 Ensurance of comunication wihtin organization.
 Quality assessment of medical servicies and goods.
 Basics of managment of material and financial
resourses.
 Technology and forms of formation of managerial
decision-making.

24. Management
Learning outcomes
 Skills
 To be able to use official healthcare report data.
 To be able to analyze and assess morbidity of population, to
determine demand of different medical services.
 To be able to plan activity of department of curative and
preventive service.
 To be able to make rational decisions for reaching appropriate
results.
 To be able to increase competiveness and viability of
organization.
 To be able to assess the quality of services and design
measures for continuous development.
 To be able to manage collectives, to use encourage methods, to
have communicating skills.
 To be able to manage conflicts and problems within collective.
 To be able to ensure supervision of paper circulation in
organization.

25. Curricula characteristics
 Biostatistics and Evidence Based
Medicine
 Study Design
 Methods of Qualitative Research
 Methods of Quantitative Research
 Database management

26. Biostatistics and Evidence Based
Medicine
Learning outcome
 Knowledge
 Basics of biostatistics
 Methods and structure peculiarities of research program and
planning.
 Peculiarities of statistical methods and basics of choosing of
methods.
 Statistical PC programs.
 Skills
 To be able to use official healthcare report data.
 To be able to plan research program and to implement it.
 To be able to choose appropriate design of research, analyzing
methods and statistical tools.
 To be able to implement statistical methods in research.
 To be able to design statistical report.

27. Mandatory Modules
 Military medicine (field therapy)
 Medicine of Disasters

28. Other Disciplines
 Medical Law
 Bioethics
 Mental and Behavioral Health

29.  Methods of teaching used in each course
 seminars,
 lectures,
 research,
 small group works,
 laboratory work
 Grading scheme
 10 point scoring (Letter equivalents in diploma)learning
outcome based assessment of knowledge and skills of
students
 3 stage assessment (test, skills, oral examination, thesis)

30.  Number of ECTS
 30 ECTS per semester.
 120 ECTS - two years of MP,

31. Students of the new Master
Program
 Entrance requirements
Only students with medical background (at least Bachelor
of medicine) and knowledge of English may apply for
master courses.
 Selection criteria for new students
Admission examination
English skills – reading, writing and speaking
Computer skills – Windows OS or Macintosh OS, MS
office

32. Students of the new Master Program
 Potential career paths on the labor market for graduates
CDC, antiepidemic and hygienic inspectorate, local
and federal public health departments, managers of
Health Care Organizations, Graduates may apply
for other master or postgraduateprograms within
YSMU.
 System of student evaluation of the courses
Oral examination, test, assessment of thesis and
presentation, skills assessment.

33. ICT
 Installed ICT resources
Notebooks, multifunctional printers, projector and screen
are installed and ready to be used with photo
cameras and camcorders in teaching process
 Project website
www.ysmu.am

34. Cooperation with TEMPUS
Partners
 Student mobility plan involving the other TEMPUS
partners
One module (Social work and social work
technologies) will be held at YSU.

35. Any questions?
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