DEPARTMENT NAME
Centre for Medical Education

CONTACT DETAILS FOR HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Janusz Janczukowicz PhD, MD, MMEd, FHEA
janusz.janczukowicz@umed.lodz.pl
+48 795 245 140

Centre for Medical Education
ul. Czechoslowacka 2B
92-216 Lodz, Poland

TEAM MEMBERS
Janusz Janczukowicz PhD, MD, MMEd, FHEA
Pawel Przylecki PhD (sociol.)
Paulina Sobieranska MSc (psychol.)
Lukasz Adamus MSc (psychol.)
Jakub Kaminski MA

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Mission:
developing and promoting contemporary standards of education in the health profession

Main activities:
research in medical education; faculty development programmes; undergraduate programmes on professionalism, intercultural and social competence and antidiscrimination; promoting change-leadership in education

Cooperation with: AMEE, ADEE, AMSE, EBMA and HEA

Keywords: higher education, medical education, medical professionalism, intercultural competence, social competence

DEPARTMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS: PROJECTS AND PAPERS
CMEdEd is accredited as a Best Evidence Medical Education Collaborating Centre (BICC / BEME) coordinating the Translation into Practice BEME Committee. CMedEd is involved in multiple projects focused on methodology of education including “Operacja Sukces”, “Centre for Medical Simulation” and “Ready to Teach”. The CMedEd team co-authored the first Polish book on medical professionalism („Profesjonalizm Lekarski”, ed.: Janusz Janczukowicz,MedicalTribunePolska,2014).

The majority of CMedEd publications are focused on medical professionalism and intercultural competence.

Janczukowicz J, Rees CE:Preclinical medical students’ understandings of academic and medical professionalism: visual analysis of mind maps. BMJ-Open,2017;7:e015897

Torre D, Manca A, Durning S, Janczukowicz J, Taylor D, Cleland J:Learning at large conferences: from the ‘sage on the stage’ to contemporary models of learning. PerspectMedEduc,2017,6,205

Janczukowicz J: Medical education in Poland. Med Teach,2013,35,537