In the period ofthe4-20th April, the head of the Department of Biochemistry, professor L. Muravleva, the head of the department of surgical diseases №2, professor E.Turgunov, assistant professor of biochemistry N. Tankibayeva read lectures and conducted workshops in the Medical Faculty of Ataturk University in Erzurum, Turkish city, in the frameworks of the external mobility program of our University and Mevlana exchange program of the Turkish university.Mevlana exchange program was funded by the Turkish Council of Higher Education and is designed for foreign  English speaking teachers.

Classes were held as part of the obligatory curriculum of students of the 3,4 and 5 years. Scientific seminars for faculty members, research workers of laboratories of biochemical, molecular and genetic studies of the University, as well as for PhD students were held also.

All conditions and the opportunity to use any teaching methods most suited to the chosen themewere created at the faculty for our lecturers. The training took place in the form of lectures, presentations and group work. All classes are equipped with computers, projectors and special devices. The educational bases were placed in the Departments of Biochemistry and Surgery of the Faculty of Medicine of Ataturk University. Some workshops, where they discussed issues of oxidative processes in the pathogenesis of several diseases, databases in the field of genome, proteome, metabolome, etc.  were also conducted.

Associate professor N. Tankibayeva lecturing for students, PhD students and researchers of the Department of molecular genetic studies.

Apart from lectures and seminars, our employees had the opportunity to participate in clinical work, participate in operations conducted in the University Hospital.

Professor E. Turgunov  operating with Dr. Yener Aydin in the  Department of Thoracic Surgery

We want to express special acknowledgments  to Professor Ahmet Kiziltunc, the head of the Department of Biochemistry, who was responsible for his Kazakh colleagues and who gave us a warm welcome and support.

Ceremony of memorials and certificates awarding at the Department of Biochemistry.

Of course, academic mobility involves addition of multicultural education, communication with colleagues and improving the teaching skills  and leaving your comfort zone. But instead of this you get a huge opportunity for personal growth, as we should have to solve new problems in unusual conditions, to change a job in another team in another language environment. Therefore,the mobility is important for creative people!

As a complement to the issue of the development of academic mobility in the university, I would like to offer to prepare a reserve for exchange programs and to generate the target group of students and teachers that want to participate in it, as well as to organize a special (thematic) language courses for these groups to acquire language certificates.

Neila Tankibayeva

Associate professor of the

Biochemistry department