Department of "Health care management, Medical ethics and Information technologies

The Department of Health care management, Medical ethics, and Information technologies was established in 2022 after the division of the Department of Public Health Sciences.

Devision of “Health care management”

Prof. Makreta Todorova Draganova, PhD

Assoc. Assist. Prof. Milena Saleva, PhD

Assoc. Prof. Violeta Mariusova Yolova

Division of “Medical Ethics”

Atanas Anov

Asst. Antoniya Stateva

Division of “Information technologies and biostatistics”

Assoc. prof. Georgi Tzanev Ivanov, PhD

Dr. Kiril Nikolaev Statev, MD, PhD

Eng. Asen Simeonov Seizov

Subjects taught by the Departments staff in the baccalaureate and master degree programmes

Application of computers in medical practice
Bioethics
Computer Technology in Health Care Management
Foundations of Scientific Research in Health Care
Fundamentals of Health Care Management
Global Public Health Trends
Health care management
Health legislation
Health projects
History of health and health care
Human resource Management
Informatics
Legal and ethical issues of health control
Management and business ethics
Management and ethics of hospice care
Management communication techniques and skills
Management, ethics and psychology of hospice care
Medical and professional ethics
Medical ethics and deontology
Medical informatics
Methodology of research work
Methodology of training by practice
Nursing diagnosis
Organizational behavior
Philosophy
Public Relations
Social and health legislation
Social medicine
Time management

Disciplines taught by the academic staff of the department in other structural units of MU-Pleven

Application of computers in medical practice
Bioethics
Health legislation
Informatics
Medical and professional ethics
Medical ethics and deontology
Medical informatics
Palliative care
Research methodology
Social and health legislation
Social medicine

Main directions of the research work

Academic and professional ethics
Clinical ethics
Clinical ethics consultation
Competences of medical personnel for research work
Epidemiological analysis and assessment of the state and processes of public health in Bulgaria and the European region
Evaluating health care reform through public and professional opinion research
Exploring the experience of ethical decision-making in clinical practice
Financing of hospital services in Bulgaria
Fundamental issues of bioethics
Health-related quality of life in healthy individuals and patients with various diseases
Introduction of automated test generation systems and automation of test control for individual academic disciplines and modules
Introduction of systems for administrative service of the educational process and management of the quality of education
Labor market of health personnel
Legal aspects of practicing the medical profession
Managerial and organizational ethics
Medically preventable mortality as a measure of the effectiveness of medical care
Medico-social aspects and prognostic factors in socially significant diseases
Medico-social problems of children's health
Medico-social problems of the elderly
Medico-social problems of women's health
Organizational and ethical problems and trends in the development of hospice/palliative care in Bulgaria
Preparation and implementation of healthcare management personnel
Professional methods and tools for quality health care
Public Health Ethics
Qualitative methods for public health research
Research ethics
Research the possibilities for the implementation of distance learning and control of knowledge in certain disciplines and modules
Social inequalities in health
Stimulating the development of "flexible" skills among students in their preparation for professional communication and realization
Study of connections, information flows and document circulation in the Management Systems and maintaining the quality of training
Study of motivation to achieve success among students and other social communities
System for complex automation of test control in medical education

Issued textbooks and teaching aids by the academic staff of the department

Bioethics - Basic Course
Ethical decision-making in healthcare
Readings in Bioethics
Social Medicine. Basic Course
Current Aspects of the Education-Training-Practice Linkage in Health Care
Bioethics
Public relations and marketing communications
Global Public Health Issues
Health insurance systems
Informatics
An informed consent
Clinical ethics consultation
Compendium of Business Ethics
Computer information technology - Part two - Application of computers
Computer Information Technology - Part One - Computer Basics
Medical ethics
Medical statistics
Methodology of training by practice
Handbook of Medical Ethics for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals
Basics of bioethics
Basics of social medicine
Bioethics Practice Guide
Social medicine /in Bulgarian/ - six editions
Social Medicine for Health Care Bachelors
Health care management
Human resource Management
Management and business ethics
Hospice Care - Management and Ethics
Hospice and palliative care. Global practice and experience in Bulgaria