On October 10, for full-time graduate students, a selective discipline «Technologies of scientific creativity. Fundamentals of academic writing and rhetoric» has started. Lectures and seminars are conducted on a cloud-based video conferencing platform ZOOM. Classes are conducted by the head of  Philosophy Department, professor Svitlana Pustovit, professor Natalia Boychenko and senior lecturer Viktoria Berezina.

The purpose of the discipline is to provide full-time graduate students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills, competencies necessary for research and innovation; to develop their philosophical and methodological knowledges, abilities to produce new ideas and theories, to solvе complex theoretical and practical problems in medical science, as well as to conduct their own original research presented as a thesis or dissertation in the chosen subject area.

Lectures and seminars are aimed at consideration and discussion of philosophical and methodological aspects of scientific technology of creativity, features of its using in natural sciences and humanities, issues of logic, heuristics and ethics of research process. Particular attention is paid to issues of creativity in medical research, as well as the bioethical principles of scientific research. The selective cycle includes a mini-conference, in which graduate students do the presentations about famous people, analyze the work of prominent scientists, musicians, artists, reveal the prerequisites and principles, features of their creative process and discoveries.

The selective discipline ends with postgraduate tests. It is expected that due to the discipline  graduate students will better understand the essence of research as a creative process and technology, philosophical and methodological principles of modeling and representation in medicine, gain more knowledge about the principles of scientific creativity in natural sciences and humanities and the basics of academic writing.