Heaching and Methodological Work

The department has all the teaching materials for the Faculty of General Medicine (“Basics of Histology” and “Morphology and Physiology”), for pediatrics, for dental and public health faculties. The volume of students’ training in histology is carried out in accordance with the existing and future needs of practical public health of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The staff of the subdepartment has worked out methodic instructions on all subjects of the practical lessons and independent work of the students in the Russian and Kazakh, English languages. Those instructions are used in the educational work. Educational scope of the subdepartment is distributed taking into account the number of weeks in the academic year, it makes up thirty-six hours in five-day workweek. The logistics of the subdepartment correspond to the modern educational level. Educational process is carried out with the use multimedia projector, colourful plates, tests, situational tasks, atlases of photomicrographs in three languages. In the subdepartmen there are all the necessary histologic specimens and electron textbooks.
The staff of the subdepartment carries out the educational process on high level, it also organizes scientific work of the students. In each auditorium there are modern microscopes produced by the firm “Zeiss”. Special multiocular microscope is used in the educational process. Besides the lecturers have worked out methodic instructions for independent work of the students.
The subdepartment possesses all the necessary equipment and information for holding the elective course on “Microscopic technique, microphotography, morphodensitometry.
The new methods are used in the educational work (formation of small groups for investigation of histologic specimens under special multiocular microscope, method CASE-STUDY, examination of colourful photomicrographs, solution of situational tasks, answering the question of the tests).
The lecturers of the subdepartment have published the following manuals in three languages:
Are going to be published:
1 “Histology of the oral cavity and teeth” (Yui R.I.) in the English language.
2. «Explanatory dictionary of the main histologic terms in three languages». Abildinov R.B., Yergazina M.Zh., Yui R.I.
3. «Tests on Special Histology» in three languages. Yui R.I., Naumova L.I.
For the estimation of knowledge at thematic controls and examinations the test system is used. Students carry out independent work in the form of essay.
Intradepartment control is carried out at the subdepartment. Particular attention is paid to: the training of the young lecturers; educational, methodological, and scientific work.
Thanks to active and systematic work and long-term teaching experience, the department developed a complete set of educational materials for all specialties, as well as a number of unique innovative methodological developments, very important for the preparation of the future general practitioner, pediatrician, dentist and hygienist.