2024–2025 Academic Year
In the 2024–2025 academic year, the department delivered 23,851.21 hours of teaching load, fulfilling 100% of the annual plan. Faculty members developed and updated syllabi, teaching and learning packages and assessment materials, and prepared textbooks on the fundamentals of scientific research and academic writing in Kazakh and Russian. A chapter on biostatistics was prepared for a textbook for residents.
In the course “Fundamentals of Scientific Research” for second-year Medical and Preventive Care students, project-based learning was introduced on the topic “Fundamentals and Design of Epidemiological Studies”. Developers: L.P. Asykbayeva, E. Tasmagambet, D.S. Martykenova and A.E. Baimenova. The Educational Programs Committee of the Kh. Dosmukhamedov School of Public Health issued a certificate of implementation.
As part of internal departmental monitoring, 14 activities were reviewed: 3 in teaching, 4 in academic and methodological work, 2 in research and 5 in extracurricular student development. The monitoring plan was 100% fulfilled. At the invitation of the National Center for Independent Examination (NCIE), N.S. Akhtayeva and M.M. Ismailova took part in developing biostatistics test items for master’s program admission.
From May 25 to 31, 2025, A.Sh. Aimakhanova and M.M. Ismailova took part in an outgoing academic mobility program at Azerbaijan Medical University. Under incoming mobility, from October 24 to November 5, 2024, the department hosted M.B. Ivanova, Head of the Department of Medical Biophysics and Information Technology of the South Kazakhstan Medical Academy.
2025–2026 Academic Year
The department teaches biostatistics, bioethics, research methodology, academic writing and mathematical disciplines in bachelor’s, residency, master’s and doctoral programs. In the 2025–2026 academic year, 22,190.7 hours of teaching load were delivered, which amounted to 100.5% of the annual plan.
Faculty members develop and update syllabi, course teaching and learning packages and assessment tools. Case studies, written and test assignments, digital educational resources and interactive teaching methods are used in practical classes and students’ independent work. Teaching materials are available in Kazakh and Russian, and for some courses also in English.
Digital maps of course resource provision have been created in the staffing.kaznmu.kz information system. They are supplemented with resources from the digital database of the Scientific Library and with teaching literature acquired by the university.
The department has 15 classrooms, including a computer lab and a lecture room with a video wall and a built-in audio system. The department’s total floor area is 404.6 m².
As part of internal departmental monitoring, 19 activities were reviewed: 6 in teaching, 4 in academic and methodological work, 3 in research and 6 in extracurricular student development. The monitoring plan was fully completed.
Department staff serve on the Quality Assurance Commission, the Educational Programs Committee and the Scientific Committee of the School of Public Health, and take part in preparing self-assessment reports of educational programs for international specialized accreditation. Assistant Professor M.M. Ismailova was engaged by the National Center for Independent Examination (NCIE) to develop biostatistics test items for master’s program admission.
Faculty members undergo professional development in pedagogy and their subject areas and apply the acquired skills when preparing practical classes and students’ independent work.
Academic mobility continued to develop in the 2025–2026 academic year. A.Sh. Aimakhanova and S.Kh. Shalginbayeva took part in a mobility program at the South Kazakhstan Medical Academy from March 25 to April 4, 2026. A.Sh. Aimakhanova, G.T. Kashafutdinova and M.M. Ismailova completed a mobility program at Azerbaijan Medical University from April 19 to 25, 2026. N.S. Akhtayeva took part in a Charité University program in Germany in November–December 2025, in person and online. In December 2025, under incoming mobility, the department hosted Kh.Sh. Ilkhamov, Associate Professor of the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute.
