Department of Social Medicine and Humanitarian Disciplines

The Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines was created in accordance with the decision of the Academic Council of the International Academy of Ecology and Medicine; The department is a structural educational and scientific-methodical division of the Academy.

Address of the department: 02091, Kyiv, Kharkivske Shosse, 121.

At the current stage of building an independent, democratic, legal Ukrainian state, the urgent task of the Ukrainian community is the problem of revising and rethinking worldview orientations; significant losses of spiritual values ​​in society require improvement of ways and methods of formation of qualitatively new thinking and a high level of national self-awareness among student youth.

Therefore, the urgent task for higher education is the formation of a powerful elite of the nation, patriotic, highly moral, and creatively active, which will show its public position, and strive for self-realization. In this regard, the role of socio-humanitarian knowledge as an important factor in the process of forming a highly qualified and highly moral specialist, a harmonious, integral, nationally conscious, patriotically oriented, socially active individual is growing.

The formation of a specialist today, in the conditions of a hybrid war, is not just the transfer of knowledge, practical skills, and abilities, but above all the education of the mind, the formation of a worldview, beliefs, moral values ​​, and principles, aesthetic tastes and preferences. Science has proven that education and upbringing are an inseparable and deeply national process in essence, content, and character. Therefore, the organization of the educational process at the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines aims at the formation and development of such a personality, which will be characterized by the readiness to fulfill, in addition to professional, civil, and constitutional duties for the protection of national-state interests, independence and integrity of Ukraine, its approval sovereignty

The Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines has been operating at the International Academy of Ecology and Medicine from the time of its establishment. The establishment of the department was facilitated by the scientific and teaching activities of Professor, Doctor of Sciences M. Yu., Professor, Doctor of Sciences M. M. Stadnyk, Professor, Doctor of Sciences N.E. Kostynska, Professor, Doctor of Sciences V. M. Yakymets, Professor, Doctor of Sciences Nauk Yarosh N. P. Currently, the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines is a united and creative team of like-minded people who provide teaching of the disciplines of the socio-humanitarian cycle to students of Ukrainian-speaking and English-speaking forms of education.

The leading scientific topic of the department’s work corresponds to the direction of the Academy’s scientific activity – “Environmental medicine, hygiene and medicine of the environment: state and prospects of development”. In the context of this scientific issue, the activity of the student scientific society is organized, which is coordinated by Associate Professor Bortnikova O. G., Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Master of Psychology, whose professional and scientific interests focus on the problem of the impact of combat mental trauma on the psychological state of military personnel.

The Department of Social and Humanitarian Discipline closely cooperates with the student council, organizing the activities of the information center, educational excursions, and sports competitions.

The goal of the educational work of the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines is the implementation of the State National Program “Education (Ukraine of the 21st century)”, which provides for “the establishment of a person as the highest social value, the fullest disclosure of his abilities and the assimilation of various educational needs, ensuring the priority of universal values, harmony relations between man and the environment, society, and nature”.

Worldview foundations of the educational process:

• sociocultural context of innovative activity;
• developing cultural dominance;
• departure from traditional paradigms of thinking in the conditions of media technologies, globalization, informatization, and multiculturalization;
• combination of humanistic and medical components of education, theoretical and practical components, classical heritage, and modern achievements of scientific thought;
• organic connection with national history, culture, national tradition;
• freedom of choice of values, realization of opportunities for self-development;
• humanization of interpersonal relations;
• future orientation;
• corporate culture.

Given the set goal, the following tasks of educational work are defined:

• ensuring the priority of human development, reproduction, and transportation of culture and spirituality in all the variety of national and world models;
• formation of worldview, legal, moral, political, economic, and ecological culture;
• multiplication of intellectual and spiritual potential;
• comprehensive development of the personality, oriented to humanistic values ​​and guidelines of professional medical ethics and deontology;
• formation of students’ innovative thinking, abilities for creative self-realization, and development of their physical and moral health;
• creation of conditions for high-quality training of competitive specialists in accordance with the achievements of domestic and world science, standards of higher education;
• comprehensive preparation for life in the globalized information space;
• provision of key competencies necessary for independent living, performance of professional and social functions;
• formation of flexibility, mobility, competitiveness, the ability to integrate into a dynamic society, to present oneself on the labor market;
• training in purposeful use of one’s potential in the cognitive sphere, for self-realization in a professional and personal plan and in the interests of society;
• formation of worldview, beliefs, and values ​​that ensure the realization of “life projects” of students;
• formation of language competence and communicative culture of future doctors;
• building the educational process on the basis of practical activities.

Areas of methodical work:

• development of training and work programs in the disciplines that the department provides;
• development of criteria for the student rating assessment system (RSS) and technologies for the organization of independent work (SRS) in accordance with the Regulation on the rating system;
• preparation of lecture notes, methodical materials for seminars, practical classes, and independent work of students;
• introduction of new forms, methods, and innovative multimedia technologies into the educational process, development of appropriate methodological support;
• conducting scientific and methodical seminars for teachers;
• preparation of educational and methodical documentation, and didactic materials;
• study and implementation of best practices in the organization of the educational process.

Directions of scientific work:

• preparation and publication of scientific articles in professional publications;
• speeches at scientific conferences, publication of abstracts of reports;
• work on dissertations, and preparation for defense;
• organization and holding of scientific and practical conferences;
• organization and conducting of scientific seminars;
• management of students’ scientific work, the results of which are reflected at scientific and practical conferences;
• integration of scientific work with the educational process.

The methodological basis of the organization of the department’s work is a technological approach – the introduction of interactive educational technologies into the educational process using computer technology; activity-based, person-oriented, informational-psychological, synergistic approaches to the organization of the educational process in a higher education institution.

New teaching methods:

• Integrative methods – development of semantic associations.
• Interactive methods: problem-based lecture, lecture with planned errors, solving social and psychological problems, discussion, project technology, anticipatory independent work, and work in discipline teams.
• Modeling and design.
• Psychotraining.
• Elements of game educational technologies.

The department provides teaching in the following disciplines:

• Latin language and medical terminology;
• Foreign language;
• Foreign language (by professional direction);
• Ukrainian language (by professional orientation);
• Ukrainian as a foreign language;
• History of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture;
• Philosophy
• Basics of psychology. Basics of pedagogy;
• Psychology of communication;
• Deontology in medicine;
• Physical education.

Professorial Staff

Bystra Maria Oleksandrivna

Bystra Maria Oleksandrivna – deputy head of the Department of Social Medicine and Humanitarian disciplines.

Candidate of historical sciences, associate professor. He teaches the following subjects: History of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture and philosophy.

Education:

1993 – 1998 – Donetsk State University; specialty “History”, qualifications – historian, a history teacher.

2021 – 2022 – Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University; specialty “Philology”, qualification – master of philology with a specialty in Germanic languages ​​and literature (including translation), first language – English.

Work experience:

2020 – until now – PVNZ “International Academy of Ecology and Medicine”, deputy head of the department of social medicine and humanitarian disciplines.

Donetsk National University

Donetsk State Academy of Management

Main publications

Monographs

Education system in Donbas during the Great Patriotic War: Monograph Donetsk: Nord-Press, 2006. – 273 p.

Donetsk region during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Known and unknown pages/ V. A. Andynok, A. G. Dermayder, M. A. Bystraya, I. I. Kulaga, D. I. Negrylo, D. N. Tytarenko, T. M. Udalova. – Donetsk: JSC “Izdatelstvo “Donechchyna”, 2008. – 432 p. (pp. 41-56; 58-61; 149-156; 175-176; 281-302; 307-311).

Donbas in the Great Patriotic War: known and unknown facts / P.V. Dobrov, I.N. Hrydyna, M.A. Bystraya, I.M. Esyp, E.V. Dobrov, N.D. Butsenko, T. Udalova. Moscow – Donetsk: LLC “IPP”, “Promyn”, 2014. – 420 p. (Pages 36 – 42, 126 – 156, 173 – 205, 364 – 382).

Kontynent europskij wobec wyzwań włoczeńsości, Tom 1, R. Kordonski, O. Kordonska, Ł. Muszyński (ed.), Lwowski Uniwersytet Narodowy im. Iwana Franki, Lwów-Olsztyn 2017, 412 p. (S.360-378.)

Articles

Materials of the state archive of the Odesa region about the life of representatives of the scientific and pedagogical intelligentsia during the German-Romanian occupation (1941-1944) // Historical and political research. – 2016. – No. 1. – P. 16 – 31.

The scientific and pedagogical intelligentsia of Ukraine in the realities of occupation: resources and survival strategies// New pages of the history of Donbas, – No. 27. – P.139 – 160.

The image of the Soviet teacher in Ukrainian periodicals of the late 1930s, using the example of the newspaper “Bilshovytska Pravda” // Eastern European Historical Herald / [chief editor V. Ilnytskyi]. – Drohobych: Posvit, 2017. – Vol. 5. – 244 p. P.138-144.

The scientific and pedagogical intelligentsia of Soviet Ukraine on the eve of the Second World War: socio-demographic analysis / M.O. Bystra // New pages of the history of Donbas. – 2017. – No. – P.87 – 102.

“Had been waiting for death, but it did not come, had been hoping for freedom, but it was not bee…”: a reality in children’s essays about what they lived out in the years of the Second World War // EAST EUROPEAN HISTORICAL BULLETIN, 2017. – ISSUE 3. – P. 67 – 72.

The image of a representative of the scientific and pedagogical intelligentsia in Ukrainian Soviet periodicals during the Second World War// Scientific quarterly “Eminak”. – Kyiv-Mykolaiv, 2018. – No. 1(21) (January – March). – T.3. – P. 71-77.

Educational and methodological developments

History of Ukraine: Education. manual: In 2 h. – Part 2. 20th – beginning of the 21st century. – Donetsk: DonDUU, 2005. – 167 p.

Educational and methodological manual for the special course “Ukraine during the Second World War” (for students majoring in “History”)/ M.O. Fast – 2nd shift. and additional – Donetsk: DonNU, 2013. – 136 p.

Methodological recommendations for preparing for seminar classes in the course “Modern History of Ukraine” (for III-year students of the “History” specialty) / comp.: – 2nd ed., changes. and added – Donetsk: DonNU, 2013. – 104 p.

History of religion and the church in Ukraine: Educational and methodological guide for students of all forms of study of the “History” specialty / M.O.Bystra. – Donetsk: Yugo-Vostok, 2014. – 70 p.

Cultural processes in Soviet Ukraine: Educational and methodological guide for students of all forms of study of the “History” specialty / M.O. Fast – Donetsk: Yugo-Vostok, 2014. – 38 p.

Methodological recommendations for the organization of independent work from the course “History of Ukraine” (for students of the 1st course of the specialties “International Relations”, “Political Science”)/ comp. M. O. Bystra. – Vinnytsia: DonNU, 2015. – 77 p.

Vytsiuk Alla Anatolyivna

Vytsiuk Alla Anatolyivna – associate professor of the Department of Social and Humanitarian disciplines.

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences. Teaches disciplines: “Foreign language”, and “Foreign language (for professional direction)”.

Author of 20 scientific publications and participant in 10 conferences (Interuniversity, All-Ukrainian, and International), including:

• The 1st International Scientific Conference “European Applied Science: Modern Approaches in scientific researches”, December 17-19, 2012, Stuttgart, Germany;
• International research and practical conference “The development of medical sciences: problems and solutions”, Brno, The Czech Republic, April 27-28, 2018;
• internship at the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Social and Humanitarian Disciplines of the Kyiv Medical University of the Ukrainian Association of Folk Medicine from 04/11/2016 to 04/22/2016;
• 14.04.2016 by the decision of the III-level attestation commission of the Department of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of the executive body of the Kyiv City Council (Kyiv City State Administration), the qualification category “specialist of the highest category” and the pedagogical title “senior teacher” were assigned.

Circle of scientific interests: higher school pedagogy.

Education:

2004 – 2009 – Kyiv City Pedagogical University named after B.D. Grinchenko; specialty “Pedagogy and methods of secondary education. Ukrainian language and literature”, qualification – teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, English language.

2014 – 2016 – Medical and Pharmaceutical College of the International Academy of Ecology and Medicine, specialty “Pharmacy”, qualification – pharmacist.

Work experience:

2018 – until now – International Academy of Ecology and Medicine, associate professor of the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines

Medical and pharmaceutical college.

LIST of Educational, Methodical, and Scientific Works of Alla Anatolyivna Vicyuk for 2008-2022.

1. Semantic-syntactic relations in the structure of complex sentences (based on B.D. Grinchenko’s stories “The Doorbell”, and “Father and Daughter”): Scientific studies of Grinchenko students: Journal of student scientific works No. 1/ Ed.: Horuzha L.L. O.V. Bezpalko, etc.-K.: B.D. Grinchenko KMPU, 2008.-S.19-20
2. Methods and techniques for studying complex sentences in the 9th grade of the gymnasium: Scientific studies of Grinchenko students: Journal of student scientific works No. 2/ Editors: L.L. Khoruzha, O.V. Bezpalko, and others. K.: KMPU named after B. D. Grinchenko, 2008. – P. 26-28
3. The relevance of the implementation of intensive courses for the acquisition of spelling abilities and skills in schools and universities: Scientific notes: [a collection of scientific articles] / Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; National ped. M. P. Drahomanov University; incl. L. L. Makarenko. – K.: Publishing House of the NPU named after M. P. Drahomanov, 2010. – Issue LXXXVII (87). – P. 19-29 (professional edition)
4. Didactic features of the organization of the workshop on the Ukrainian language in senior classes of secondary schools and universities: New learning technologies: Scientific method. coll. / Institute of Innovative Technologies and Educational Content of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Ukraine. – K., 2010. – Vol. 65. – pp. 61-67 (professional edition)
5. Mastering spelling competence is a necessary condition for improving the literacy of secondary school students: Education of Donbas: Scientific method. publication / Luhansk national. T. G. Shevchenko University. – Luhansk, 2011. – Vol. 1 (144). – P. 29-34 (professional edition)
6. Formation and development of the main provisions of the methodology of intensive foreign language learning: main ideas and principles: Bulletin of Luhansk National University named after T. G. Shevchenko. – Luhansk, 2011. – Issue 10 (221). – P. 178-187 (professional edition)
7. Trends in the development of the methodology of teaching the spelling of the Ukrainian language: Collection of scientific works “Pedagogical education: theory and practice”. – Issue 8 – Kamianets-Podilskyi: Publisher PP Zvolenko D. G., 2011. – P. 188-195 (professional edition)
8. Implementation of the competence approach in the formation of orthographic literacy of first-year students of philology majors during the study of linguistic disciplines: Collection of scientific papers. Pedagogical sciences. Issue 59. – Kherson: KhSU, 2011. – pp. 223-228 (professional edition)
9. Methodological guidelines of improving students’ spelling literacy in higher education of the second level of accreditation: “European Applied Science: modern approaches in scientific researches”: Papers of the 1st International Scientific Conference (Volume 1). December 17-19, 2012, Stuttgart, Germany. – 144-145
10. Historical origins of the development of Ukrainian spelling: Ukrainian language and literature in the modern school. – K., 2013. – No. 1. – P. 18-21
11. Spelling workshop on the Ukrainian language: Study. a guide for students of philological specialties (electronic edition). – CU was named after Borys Grinchenko, in 2011. – 84 p.
12. Application of computer-oriented teaching methods in the formation of spelling competence of first-year students of the philological profile: Research of young scientists in the context of the development of modern science: Mater. All-Ukrainian science and practice conference (April 20, 2011) / MES of Ukraine, GUOM of KMDA, Kyivsk. Borys Grinchenko University and others. / for general ed. V. O. Ognevyuk [edited by: V. O. Ognevyuk, L. L. Khoruzh, N. M. Vinnikova, D. M. Bodnenko]. – K.: Kyivsk. Borys Grinchenko University, 2011. – P. 42-48
13. The use of interactive teaching methods during the study of spelling by first-year students of philological specialties: Current issues of modern science: materials of the 11th International Scientific and Practical Conference on Philosophical, Philological, Legal and Pedagogical Sciences. – Horlovka, 2011. – pp. 21-29
14. Ways to increase the spelling literacy of philology students in the conditions of university education: Young scientist of the 21st century: materials of the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference (Kryvyi Rih, April 5, 2012) Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine, State Educational Institution “Kryvyi Rih National University”. – Kryvyi Rih: SPD Zalozny V. V., 2012. – P 17-20
15. Conceptual foundations of spelling competence of the students of the medical academy: Modern philological research and foreign language teaching in the context of intercultural communication: Collection of scientific works/ Zag. ed. V.V. Zhukovskaia, O.A. Chernysh – Zhytomyr: Publishing House named after Zh. I. Franka, 2014.-S. 130-134
16. The problem of becoming a future specialist in the field of medical education in the conditions of the European credit-transfer system: The latest factors influencing the formation of the personality of a student-future doctor: Materials of the XVI International. science and practice conference, Kyiv, March 23, 2016; CMU of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 2016. – P. 36-39
17. Formation and development of pharmacy as an important sphere of human activity: Youth, education, science, culture, and national self-awareness in the conditions of European integration: Collection. Materials of the XIX All-Ukrainian Science and Practice Conference, Kyiv, April 21, 2016; in 2 vols./ Ed.: I.I. Tymoshenko (rep. ed.) and others – K.: Publication of the European University, 2016.-T 1.-S. 44-47
18. Neuropsychiatric disorders in teachers: symptoms, treatment: Medical and pharmaceutical sciences: history, current state, and prospects of research: materials of the international scientific and practical conference (Odesa, October 21-22, 2016). – Odesa: GO “Southern Foundation” of medicine”, 2016.-C 99-103
19. The method of formation of orthographic literacy of foreign students of the first year of higher education institutions using different types of dictation: Scientific journal “Young Scientist”. – Kherson: “Helvetyka” publishing house. – No. 12.1 (40) December, 2016.- P. 400-404 (professional edition)
20. Professional diseases of teachers: Scientific, medical, environmental journal “World of Medicine and Biology” (Poltava).-No. 2 (60) 2017.-С 200-203 (professional edition) (Web of science)
21. Teacher’s health as an actual problem of modern society: Medical Scientific and Practical Journal “Medical Affairs”.-No. 1-2 (1146) January-March, 2018.-P.178-181(Scopus)
22. Phytotherapy as a modern and effective method of human treatment: The development of medical sciences: problems and solutions: Conference Proceedings, April 27-28, 2018. Brno: Baltija Publishing, P. 142-145
23. Psychological peculiarities and ethical norms of professional activity of pharmacists: Innovation in modern education and science: theory, methodology, practice. – Materials of the 2nd International Summer Scientific Symposium, July 26-27, 2019, Odessa. – – P.67-73
24. Knowledge of the norms of the Ukrainian language is a prerequisite for the successful activity of a modern specialist in the field of pharmacy: Ukrainian pharmaceutical bulletin “Pharmacist Praktik”. – 09 [183] ​​2019. -S. 48-49
25. Foreign language (by professional direction): Study guide for students of the 2nd year of the Medical and Pharmaceutical College, specialty 226 “Pharmacy, industrial pharmacy”. – electronic edition.- -100 p. (agreed at the meeting of the Scientific Council of the International Academy of Ecology and Medicine, protocol No. 4 dated December 5, 2019)
26. New challenges of the 21st century: COVID-19: International scientific and practical conference “New trends and unresolved issues of preventive and clinical medicine”: Conference proceedings, September 25-26, 2020. Lublin: Izdevnieciba “Baltija Publishing”, 2020.-P. 29-32
27. Distance education of medical students using the ZOOM service as an integral part of the educational process in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic: Ecology and medicine. Materials of international scientific and practical conferences: Part 1. Metabolic disorders of the population of Ukraine: influence of environmental and stress factors. Materials of the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation. March 18-19, 2021, Kyiv; Part 2. Environmental and hygienic aspects of health and biosecurity of the population. Materials of the International Scientific and Practical Conference. April 7-08, 2021, Kyiv. – Kyiv: “Center for Educational Literature”, 2021. – P. 143-155
28. The catastrophe at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant as one of the prerequisites for the deterioration of the health of the population of Ukraine: Ecology and medicine. Materials of international scientific and practical conferences: Part 1. Metabolic disorders of the population of Ukraine: influence of environmental and stress factors. Materials of the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation. March 18-19, 2021, Kyiv; Part 2. Environmental and hygienic aspects of health and biosecurity of the population. Materials of the International Scientific and Practical Conference. April 7-08, 2021, Kyiv. – Kyiv: “Center for Educational Literature”, 2021. – P. 202-213
29. Current status and features of immunoprophylaxis against COVID-19: International Scientific Conference Modern Scientific Research: Achievements, Innovations and Development Prospects: Conference Proceedings, October 1-2, 2021. Riga, Latvia: “Baltija Publishing”. – P.34-38
30. Interesting grammar: Study guide in 2 parts for foreign students of the preparatory department.-(electronic edition).- -180 p. (agreed at the meeting of the Scientific Council of the International Academy of Ecology and Medicine, protocol No. 2 dated October 13, 2021)
31. Artificial intelligence: history and realities: Materials of the XXI International Scientific and Technical Conference “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLECTUAL SYSTEMS. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (AIIS’2021). International scientific youth school “SYSTEMS AND TOOLS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”, November 26-27, 2021, Kyiv. – Kyiv, 2021. – P.164-172
32. Syndrome of emotional burnout in scientific and pedagogical workers at the institutions of higher education as a problem of the 21st century / A. A. Vytsyuk // Formation of the modern concept of teaching natural sciences in medical educational institutions (biology, physics, chemistry, pedagogy, psychology): Materials of the XIV Interregional Scientific and Methodological Internet Conference, December 14–15 2021, Kharkiv. – Kharkiv, 2021. – C. 163-164.
33. Medicinal plant raw materials: theoretical aspect / A. A. Vytsiuk // Industrial pharmacy — realities and prospects, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of Professor V.I. Chuyeshova: Materials of the International Scientific and Practical Conference, (March 17-18, 2022, Kharkiv). – X.: NFaU Publishing House, 2022. – P. 63-65.
34. Anthropogenic impact on the environment: retrospective analysis and modern realities/ A. A. Vytsyuk // Materials of the scientific and practical conference with international participation “Environmental and biological education in the concept of “One Health”, edited by Prof. Fedonyuk L. Ya. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyga, 2022. – P. 14-17.