Study for degree in Medicine
School of Medicine has over 2900 undergraduate students, 120 graduate students and 330 postgraduate students, 132 faculties, 23 clinical departments including 5 traditional departments with 12 professor’s teams. 2001 – 2013 , our school had implemented integrated PBL based curriculum with 21 blocks. Since 2013 our school had implemented competency-based curriculum with 6 blocks. This curriculum has been accredited by the National Council for Higher Education Accreditation and evaluated successfully by the Association for Medical Education in the Western Pacific Region in 2011. From this academic year, we are implementing 2 years premedical, plus 4 years medical curriculum for all medical and dental students. All students will study anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, genetics and plus various other studies including biostatistics, epidemiology, pharmacology, and laboratory classes in their initial 2 years pre-medical training. From the third year until the fifth year, students study clinical studies, based on the “block-integrated curriculum.” Clinical studies are based within the hospital complex with attachments to Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics and other direct patient care specialties. From last year, students have done their clerkship at the rural hospitals throughout the Mongolia.
The Undergraduate Program for Medical doctor employs 324 permanent academic staffs, encompassing 37 Professors, 34 Associate Professors, 242 Senior lecturers, and 11 instructors. There are 62 (47.2%) academic staff members of the Undergraduate Program for Medical doctor hold PhD degrees in Medical fields from both national and overseas universities.
At the faculty level, academic staff members of Medical school of MNUMS are grouped based on their research expertise and competencies into 15 expertise/research groups. It is important to note that depending on staff involvement in teaching and supervisory activities, not all academic staff members become full-time staff of the Undergraduate Program for Medical doctor. However, the number of faculty members assigned to the Medical program is sufficient to deliver the program to excellence. This allows excellent coverage of all topics in relation to the teaching load, research activity, as well as administrative loads. The competencies of all the academic staff help to ensure the implementation of the Medical curriculum. Profiles of the academic staff members are described in the Staff Handbook written according to the ASIIN criteria. The Staff Handbook contains information which includes educational level, research specification, scientific contributions (research project, collaboration, publication, patent), and professional memberships in international communities.
In our system, academic staff members formally work from 7:40-12:40, 13:40-17:40. However, there is no fixed office hour for each course. The academic staff provides flexible office hours for courses. The coordinator of blocks makes the schedule of each block. For research study, the final project supervision is agreed upon negotiation between student and supervisor, in which discussion can be made anytime based on the availability of the two parties. Student supervision for practical laboratory and project courses can be performed with the help of laboratory teaching assistants during or after laboratory work.