a. “The students are confused,” explains Michał Szpinda of Collegium Medicum UMK at Bydgoszcz, a scholar interview that was revealed in the media about taking online anatomy seminars and exams.
A statement from the head of the natural anatomy department, Prof. Szpindy, addressed to the Discipline Spokesperson for Academic Educators at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, was posted by the university’s press office on Tuesday.
a. Szpinda said the recording was in keeping with a real conversation and provided the facts on which he was based in his statement that “the students are well prepared”.
“Seminars and examinations that students take online are distinguished by their success rate at 95-100%. Prior to the outbreak of the epidemic in the past 20 years, the pass rate for seminars and exams in anatomy in the first semester at the site was 55-65% on average. “. – World Books.
a. Shebinda confirmed that 232 students from the medical school took their last online exams on July 29, 2020, of whom 225 students got positive grades and seven negative grades. In the end, all medical school students passed the anatomy exam in the 2019/2020 academic year.
The lecturer stated that this academic year, first-year medical students took four online exams. In the final test on the Pelvic Subject, four of the 23 students who enrolled failed. On the other hand, about 50 percent of students passed the lower end in the only consistent final exam. the students.
a. Szpinda emphasized that he was not the author of the statements from the recording attributed to him in the media: “The success rate is definitely very high in the remote format and we have to do something about it.”
“I strongly support my conviction that the entire recorded conversation did not focus on + reducing the success rate. + On the contrary, his interlocutors showed their concern about how to restore the actual verification of knowledge checked using the online method, which is verification, after all, an indispensable component. About him in the education process, in particular, it is directly related to the main topic of the first year of studies, which is anatomy, “- emphasized the professor. Szpinda in a letter to the Discipline Spokesperson for Academic Educators at Nicolaus Copernicus University.
The lecture on anatomy for first-year students was held remotely on the 1st of March, and was immediately followed by a conversation between three scientists – the professor. Szpindy and prof. Janusz Moryś from Gdańsk Medical University and Dean of CM UMK Medical School, Prof. Zbigniew Włodarczyk. After the lecture, the microphone did not turn off and the students listened to the conversation. The recording of the conversation has been sent to the media.
With regard to the registration disclosed by the professor. Szpinda was suspended from the Natural Anatomy course co-ordinator job, and the university’s discipline spokesperson has initiated a demonstration procedure.
Collegium Medicom is located in Bydgoszcz, and is part of the Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toru. (PAP)
Author: Jerzy Rouse
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