On October 28, at Kuban State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the II All-Russian Interuniversity Olympiad on Pediatrics with the international participation “Master of Pediatrics” took place.

The team of the Kursk State Medical University “Challenge Accepted” competed in theoretical knowledge and practical skills with 20 teams of students of the following universities: Ivanovo State Medical Academy, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Ryazan State Medical University, Saratov State Medical University named after V.I. Razumovsky, Maikop State University of Technology, KubSMU, Volgograd State Medical University, Pacific State Medical University, Omsk SMU, PetrSU, PRMU, KrasSMU, Amur SMA, Tajik State Medical University named after Abuali ibni Sino, Mari SU.

The program of the Olympiad consisted of many competitions, including contest of team captains. As part of the Video Card and Medical Mystery contests, our students demonstrated video clips: the first video featured information about the city of Kursk, Kursk State Medical University and the team; the second video featured a mystery dedicated to the invention in medicine.

At the theoretical round of the Olympiad, our team showed a high level of knowledge when solving creative tasks and clinical problems on pediatric topics.

On the practical round of the Olympiad, our students showed themselves in providing emergency care to a child victim; in examining, diagnosing and treating a real patient and a virtual patient; in demonstrating communication skills at the primary reception.

The team of Kursk State Medical University “Challenge Accepted” was awarded in the category “Experts in Theory” and thus successfully debuted at the Olympics!

The team line-up:

Tchitanava Sofia Malkhazevna, 5th year student of the group 5 of pediatric faculty

Zaitsev Alexander Ilyich, 5th year student of the group 2 of medical faculty

Kalchinsky Alexander Andreevich, 5th year student of the group 4 of pediatric faculty

Levykina Anastasia Dmitrievna, 5th year student of the group 4 of pediatric faculty

Popova Kristina Vladimirovna, 5th year student of the group 2 of pediatric faculty

Team leader – Alexey Dmitrievich Bogomazov, Associate Professor of the Department of Pediatrics, Candidate of Medical Sciences