Erasmus + Success Stories

“WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN THIS GREAT EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE UNDER THE USEFYLL SUPERVISION OF OUR MENTOR”

Erasmus+ Period: 22/02/2019 – 22/05/2019

My name is Silviya Ivanova and I am student in the fourth year in Medical University of Sofia, specialty Health management. My Erasmus+ internship lasted three amazing months and it was in Medical university of Warsaw, Poland!

The first assigned task was practice in the Neonatology department of The Autonomous Public Children’s Clinic Hospital of the Medical University of Warsaw. Together with my two col-leagues from the University in Valencia who were specializing as nurses, we had the opportunity to gain this great experience and practice under the useful supervision of our mentor Emil. We spent some of our internship in the intense care unit where we prepared the medicine, took care of the patients as feeding, changing, placing feeding tube and marking the accomplished activities in the relevant documents. The rest of the time, we had the possibility to witness how the specialists take blood samples from a head of a newborn, birth with C-section, puncture of the spine of a newborn and a lot more. This practice was not directly connected with my specialty; however, it gave me a very precious overview regarding the Polish healthcare system from the professionals working in the hospital.

The main part of my internship was creating a literature review, using the method of systematic approach on the topic ‘Hepatitis B and C: Seroprevalence, knowledge, practice and associated factors among medicine and health science students’. It was a consistent and continuing work and my mentor was Ms. Joanna Gotlib PhD head of Division of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Medical University of Warsaw.

I devoted few weeks to investigate and collect enough knowledge about the genre ‘literature review’ and I read a couple of researches made on the topic ‘Hepatitis B and C. I picked up this topic having in mind my sphere of friends who are medical or health science students therefore I felt personally engaged and chose this social group. While looking for all the necessary information this work needed, I had the chance to meet some of the PhD students and to spend some time in the administration of the faculty.

In my free time I managed to travel to other polish cities and in Norway, Lithuania and Latvia together with my new international friends, I attended Polish classes and had great fun and experience.

Finally, yet importantly, I wish to thank Medical university of Sofia for providing me with this opportunity and supporting me all the way through and especially my Erasmus+ Coordinator prof. Antoniya Yanakieva, PhD.