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"Teaching Excellence of the University"

The project is implemented under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development co- funded by the European Social Fund

The aim of the project entitled "Teaching excellence of the university" is to improve the quality of education by improving the institutional capacity of the university and improving the teaching competence of the university staff.

The implementation of the project will contribute to the undertaking of reforms at universities in the field of e.g. teaching process management, education quality management and development of teaching, teaching and research staff and staff supporting the teaching process.

The project involves training of 482 participants in 31 training courses (both internal and external), including:

• "Visual masterclass - techniques for creating realistic visualisations, e.g. presentations or VR"
• "Conflict - how to deal with difficulties in teaching"
• "Activating students in the teaching process"
• "Public speaking and correct voice emission"
• "Basic Ukrainian language course"
• "The correctness of the relationship between the master and the student, communication, feedback",
• “Training in the field of soft skills, i.e.: effectiveness and motivation in action; assertiveness; time management”,
  
• "Soft skills training, i.e. how to teach quickly and effectively", "Adobe Photoshop - basic course",
• "Creating Mind Maps"
• "The use of the skeletal and muscular system mapping applications, up-to-date 3D imaging technologies in medicine".

The implementation of the project aims to professionalise and improve the quality of education in higher education by developing practical teaching skills and promoting a scientific approach to teaching.

Integrated University Programs for Regional Development

The project is implemented under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development 2014-2020 co-funded by the European Social Fund

The main objective of the project is the implementation of educational programs and their adaptation to socio-economic needs at the national and regional level, aimed at equipping students of the following subjects of study: pharmacy, biotechnology, medical analytics of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Sosnowiec, medical programme and emergency medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, physiotherapy, midwifery, nursing at the Faculty of Health Sciences in Katowice, in practical skills, as well as improving the competences of individuals participating in the higher education process in key areas for the economy and development of the country, and supporting IT tools for university management, creating open educational resources and information management to improve the quality of education.

The following are planned as part of the project:

• Acquisition of a virtual reality simulator - emergency medicine - LPR - to be used during classes with students. The project aims to simulate the activities carried out at the site of the disaster related to the call of the LPR helicopter.
• Acquisition of a virtual reality simulator - a chemistry lab - to be used during classes with students. The project aims to provide tools to simulate activities carried out in a chemical laboratory.
• Organisation of workshops in the area of communication competences in the nurse-patient relationship, nurse-family/caregivers of the patient, work in an interdisciplinary team and performance of practical tasks in the area of professional competence, including the nurse's participation in the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment carried out in the form of a project, as well as students visits in geriatric care facilities.
• Implementation of tools enabling transparent, comprehensive support for the recruitment process, documentation and appraising of training effects for all recipients of the University's development activities (SUM Training and Development Programme Service System).
• Introduction of effective solutions for secure management of access to rooms at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, with particular emphasis on laboratories, equipment rooms, data processing areas, and rooms where chemical substances are stored and used (electronic access system).
• Implementation of tools for objective and real-time assessment of the quality of lectures and student administration services. The results obtained from the system will be the basis for analyses and improvement of the quality and methods of education (electronic assessment of student satisfaction).

• 160 students of full-time and part-time studies: medicine and emergency medicine.
• 120 pharmacy students, 40 biotechnology students and 80 medical analytics students.
•  Physiotherapy, nursing, and midwifery students - 300 individuals.
• 90 full-time nursing students at the Faculty of Health Sciences in Katowice.
• All University employees:
  • employees using the system: 500 individuals,
  • students who will benefit from the system: 3000 individuals.

Please visit the project website: https://zpuregionalne.sum.edu.pl

Integrated University Programmes SUM 2

Project co-funded by the European Union from the European Social Fund under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development

POWR.03.05.00-00-Z077/18

Project main goal:

• Improving the competences of the teaching staff by equipping health risk management students of the Medical University of Silesia with knowledge and practical skills to assess health risk and to program preventive health care for socio-economic needs.
• Raising the information competences of the teaching staff in the use of electronic sources of information, including medical databases, and managing information obtained from these databases.
• Improving the competences and professional qualifications of the teaching staff of SUM and medical, emergency medicine and health risk management students by equipping the University with advanced virtual reality simulators: surgical tools and TRIAGE (emergency medicine), also modifying the teaching content with the use of specialised software, organising courses, visits study and practical field activities.
• Implementation of a database system supporting the collection and sharing of data for exploration and analysis for teaching purposes - University Repository of Medical Cases (URPM).
• Implementation of an IT system for comprehensive support for the processes of handling research applications, orders and deliveries, as well as office document flow - SUM 2020 IT System.

Please visit the project website: http://zintegrowaneprogramyuczelni2.sum.edu.pl

"Postgraduate education of physicians  - development of practical education with the use of SUM medical simulation techniques"

The project is implemented as part of Measure 5.4 Professional competences and qualifications of medical staff of the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development

PLN 10 068 219,92

Project goal:

The main objective of the project is to develop professional competences and qualifications of physicians  and resident physicians, in response to the epidemiological and demographic needs of the country, by organising training to improve surgical skills, taking into account maps of health needs.

The project will contribute to the implementation of the PO WER objectives, contributing to the implementation of the specific objective of Axis V Development of professional competences and qualifications of medical staff, in response to the epidemiological and demographic needs of the country, and thematic objective 10 Investing in education, training and vocational training for gaining skills and lifelong learning.

The above objective will be achieved after trainings for 1,666 people have been conducted during the project implementation period.

The trainings planned in the project go beyond the specialization program and their thematic scope concerns medical issues based on Evidence Based Medicine, related to the development of medical skills in the field of surgical skills.

Training methodology

The trainings will be conducted by the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice as follows:

• Accurate recognition of the clinical situation, i.e. establishing a diagnosis and then choosing the available treatment options, which will depend on the prevailing conditions. At this stage, the knowledge, experience of the doctor and his individual skills will be necessary.
• Analysis of the beneficial and unfavourable effects of various diagnostic and therapeutic activities. At this stage, it will be necessary to use knowledge from specific scientific studies. It will require the ability to find and analyse this type of data in order to critically evaluate it in terms of credibility and clinical relevance, and then use this information in relation to a given patient/scenario.
• After completing the above stages, it will be possible to choose the appropriate course of action, the most optimal in a given situation.

Course topics

Task 1. Course of virtual simulation of laparoscopic techniques in paediatric surgery

The training offered is addressed to doctors starting their professional training, to specialist doctors who want to improve and improve their practical and decision-making skills in the field of minimally invasive surgical techniques, as well as to doctors in the process of specialization or who want to improve their skills in video-surgical techniques performed in children.

Task 2. Course of virtual simulation of laparoscopic techniques in paediatric surgery

A course for doctors who want to analyse topographic anatomy using laparoscopic or thoracic access, which is rarely presented in the form of a real image of the operating field in anatomical atlases. It gives an opportunity to practice appropriate medical procedures and eliminate false movements thanks to the possibility of repeating a given step.

Task 3. Course of virtual simulation of thoracoscopy techniques in thoracic surgery

Participants can analyse topographical anatomy under thoracoscopic access, which is rarely presented in the form of a real image of the operating field in anatomical atlases.

The course gives you the opportunity to:

• trying different ways of clipping/supplying vessels, which - due to the cost of medical equipment - exceeds the capabilities of a novice surgeon,
• learning to manipulate, carry, grasp, dissect tissues, including learning to sew, due to the legitimate need to practice these manual skills.

Task 4. FAST course - medical simulation

The course gives the opportunity to train and improve the use of ultrasound in multi-organ injuries, including pathological situations requiring appropriate surgical treatment. It allows you to improve the practical and decision-making skills of doctors, and thus to provide better care for patients.

Package 5. Training workshop on transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE)

The course enables training and improvement of the technique, which is increasingly used both in diagnostics and in piloting therapeutic procedures. Exercises are carried out in real conditions with the use of anatomical models, along with the presentation of the latest guidelines for the use of the TEE technique.

Package 6. Functional diagnostics of the osteoarticular and muscular system with the use of modern technical solutions, with particular emphasis on the period of developmental and senior age

It enables training and improvement of skills in performing functional diagnostics of the osteoarticular and muscular system using various simple functional tests and modern measuring equipment, especially in the field of assessing body posture at different ages, gait, stability, balance, and assessing the risk of falls.

Package 7. Basic techniques of invasive diagnostics of the circulatory system

A course for cardiologists or cardiology trainees who intend to use invasive techniques to treat patients. It gives the opportunity to train and improve many types of diagnostic procedures in interventional cardiology, such as femoral coronary angiography, radial coronary angiography, femoral or radial bypassography, as well as in the use and selection of equipment and techniques to protect the puncture site - exercises in simulations using simulators and anatomical models.

Task 8. Transseptal puncture and procedures on the interatrial septum

A course for doctors starting their professional training, as well as specialists who want to improve and improve their practical and decision-making skills in the field of non-coronary interventional cardiology and intraoperative echocardiography. It gives the opportunity to train and improve many types of atrial septal procedures.

Task 9. Electrotherapy in heart failure

A course for doctors starting their professional training, as well as for specialists who want to improve and improve their practical and decision-making skills in interventional cardiology. The training is also dedicated to doctors specialising in cardiology, conservative cardiologists and those working in centres developing/planning to develop electrotherapy in heart failure.

Task 10. Application of practical techniques in minimally invasive surgeries of the mitral valve

Training for resident doctors and specialists who want to improve their skills in the field of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. The participant will learn the techniques of cannulation of minimally invasive surgeries.

Task 11. Transoesophageal echocardiography in the procedures of transcatheter closure of abnormal intracardiac connections, valvular defects and closure of the left atrial appendage

Training provided for doctors who want to improve their skills in many types of transcatheter procedures (including PFO/ASD closure, left atrial appendage, abnormal intracardiac connections) and improve practical and decision-making skills, thus ensuring better patient care.

Please visit the project website:

 http://ksztalcenia.podyplomowe.lekarzy.sum.edu.pl/

Recruitment rules and course program:

http://ksztalcenia.podyplomowe.lekarzy.sum.edu.pl/?r=artykul/view&id=2

"Screening tests using low-dose computed tomography as a method of improving the curability of lung cancer in the Silesian macroregion"

The project implemented under the Operational Program Knowledge Education Development 2014-2020 co-funded by the European Social Fund under the 5th priority axis Support for the area of health 5.1 Prevention programs

POWR: 05.01.00-00-0008/19

Project partners:

• Independent Prof. Stanisław Szyszko Public Clinical Hospital No. 1 of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice
• Lower Silesian Centre of Oncology, Pulmonology and Haematology in Wrocław

The main objective of the project is to implement the policy program entitled National Lung Cancer Early Detection Program (WWRP) using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT). It combines secondary and primary prevention to improve lung cancer awareness in the community and among healthcare professionals.

The main task of this preventive program is to improve the detection of lung cancer at an early stage of its development by conducting appropriate preventive measures in the Silesian macroregion (voivodships: Silesian, Opole, Lower Silesian) in the years of program implementation. It is part of the implementation of the PO WER objectives, primarily the implementation of the specific objective of Axis V Implementation and development of prevention programs dedicated to people of working age, in the part concerning diseases negatively affecting labour resources, and thematic objective 8. Promoting sustainable and high-quality employment and employee mobility.

The program assumes that 3,798 people will be tested by performing 17,200 tests.

The target group of the project, in the field of screening, basic and in-depth diagnostics, are:

• Individuals aged 55-74 with tobacco consumption greater than or equal to 20 pack-years, a period of tobacco abstinence not longer than 15 years.
• Individuals aged 50-74 with tobacco consumption greater than or equal to 20 pack-years, a period of tobacco abstinence not longer than 15 years, with one of the following risk factors:
  • occupational exposure to silica, beryllium, nickel, chromium, cadmium, asbestos, arsenic compounds, diesel exhaust fumes, coal smoke, soot, exposure to radon,
  • individual history of cancer: lung cancer survivor, history of lymphoma, head and neck cancer or smoking-related cancers, e.g. bladder cancer,
  • a history of lung cancer in a first-degree relative,
  • history of lung disease: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
• An individual from the high-risk group is included in the program based on a decision made jointly with a qualified healthcare professional (shared decision making), which presents the principle of screening, profit and side effects of the method based on:
  • the Tammemagi predictive model of the lung cancer risk calculator PLCOm2012 (25, 33),
  • lung nodule malignancy predictive model (34),
  • information materials similar to those offered by the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHQR) (36).
• Medical personnel from units participating in the program, i.e. medical staff (pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, general practitioners, radiologists), nurses and support staff (medical care coordinators), who will undergo training/education on lung cancer.
• People at risk of developing lung cancer.

A participant may be a person who meets the conditions for inclusion in the program, if he or she is aware of the possible need to carry out invasive diagnostic procedures and possible surgery. Each person participating in the program has the option of resigning from it at any stage.

Information about online training

Implementation of the preventive program entitled "Screening with the use of low-dose computed tomography, a method of improving the cure rate of lung cancer in the Silesian macroregion" assumes a series of trainings in order to implement the educational component addressed to medical personnel: medical staff (pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons primary care physicians, radiologists), nurses and support staff (medical care coordinators)

The Medical University of Silesia in Katowice organizes online training for medical staff (pulmonologists, general practitioners, radiologists), nurses and support staff (medical care coordinators).

Recruitment takes place via the website: www.lungcheck.pl and at the following telephone numbers: for Silesian voivodship: phone no: +48 534-433-633, 733-120-778; Lower Silesian voivodship and Opole voivodship: phone no: +48 71 726-25-25.

We invite you to familiarize yourself with the training program: www.sum.edu.pl, www.lungcheck.pl The program is also available on the websites of the project partners.

"Best of the best"

"Best of the best! 4.0" Programme financed from the funds of the Operational Program Knowledge Education Development, co-funded from the European Social Fund supporting exceptionally talented students in order to develop their activities.

Two projects submitted by SUM students received a positive recommendation!

"Comprehensive training program in interventional cardiology in children - PO WER-KID"

Program implemented by the Children's Memorial Health Institute (Instytut "Pomnik - Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka") as part of the Operational Program Knowledge Education Development 2014-2020 co-funded by the European Social Fund

• Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny w Katowicach
• Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu
• Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny we Wrocławiu

Project goal:

The main objective of the program is to eliminate the existing deficit by training an appropriate number of doctors, including training with the use of medical simulation techniques. The target group are physicians, including resident physicians, interested in paediatric cardiology, including interventional cardiology. The program provides for the participating doctors courses on the morphology of the cardiovascular system and congenital heart defects, the basics of paediatric interventional cardiology and psychological aspects of paediatric interventional cardiology.

The main part of the training will be practical classes in interventional cardiology laboratories for children. Courses and practical classes will be conducted using modern medical simulation techniques.

The program provides two training paths:

• Basic training for doctors from the area of Poland

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• Advanced training for doctors from the voivodeships where the centres cooperating in the project are located

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Recruitment rules:

https://nauka.czd.pl/pracownia-kardiologiij-symulacji-medyczny/rekrutacja/

"Supporting university consolidation processes"

The subject of this project is conceptual and analytical work aimed at identifying areas and optimal forms and structures to strengthen cooperation between 7 state funded universities operating in Katowice, in connection with the city of Katowice obtaining the title of "European City of Science 2024" and the preparation and implementation of joint initiatives undertaken by these universities, as well as the city of Katowice under the working name of the Joint Science Zone.

The assumed result of the project will be the achievement of lasting effects of scientific, educational and implementation synergy in organizational forms and structures, which will be indicated in the applications based on conceptual and analytical work carried out as part of the project, as well as a joint increase in the visibility of the Katowice academic community on a national, European and global scale, thanks to the joint use of opportunities created by prestigious events organized under the brand of the European City of Science 2024.

• Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach – Lider Projektu
• Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny w Katowicach
• Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im Jerzego Kukuczki w Katowicach
• Akademia Muzyczna im Karola Szymanowskiego w Katowicach
• Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Katowicach
• Politechnika Śląska

Project goal:

The project will consist of three main tasks (stages):

Task 1. Diagnosis of potential and areas of consolidation

The first task covers activities related to the identification and inventory of research and educational areas (including those related to the challenges of transformation of the region, country and Europe), which are the most important from the point of view of future forms of cooperation, both in the context of the implementation of the second task (programming for society), as well as the prospects for consolidation and long-term effects of cooperation.

Task 2. Programming cooperation of universities for the benefit of society

The second task includes activities aimed at specifying the program of cooperation of the university, taking into account the results of the diagnoses and analyses carried out in the first task.

Task 3. Development of the concept, form and scope of consolidation

Analysis and recommendations regarding optimal organizational forms for joint research in selected subject areas, including the creation, functioning and financing of inter-university research teams.

The implementation of tasks under the project will be possible primarily thanks to the involvement of academic teachers and administrative employees of all universities, taking into account their additional remuneration (full-time employment, task allowances, delegation).

The activities planned in the project are complementary to other joint activities undertaken by the consolidated universities and concern the main program areas listed below:

• education (SUM - 4 academic teachers)
• scientific excellence (SUM - 4 academic teachers)
• the impact of science on improving the lives of residents (SUM - 2 academic teachers)
• joint Science City / joint Science Zone (SUM - 3 academic teachers)
• other forms of obtaining the synergy effect (SUM - 2 academic teachers)
• consolidation of university potentials (SUM - 3 academic teachers)

In order to coordinate the activities undertaken as part of the consolidation process, a Program Council will be appointed, whose task will be to monitor the implementation of the planned goals and milestones. The Program Council will include 14 individuals, including 7 representatives of the applicant universities and 7 external experts.