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Olena Bieliaieva, PhD

Olena Bieliaieva, PhD

Latin and Medical Terminology

Teaching Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes

 

Highlights

Languages
  • Ukrainian, English, French
Gender
  • Female
PSMU Affiliations:
  • Department of Foreign Languages with Latin and Medical Terminology
Location:

 

About Assoc. Prof. Olena Bieliaieva

Primary Academic Title
  • PhD in Pedagogy since 2011
  • Associate Professor since 2013
Professional Titles
  • 2014 – present: Head of the Department of Foreign Languages with Latin and Medical Terminology of Poltava State Medical University.
  • 23.03.2017 – 3.09.2019: Head of the Education Quality Assurance Sector of PSMU.

 

Background

Olena Bieliaieva, Ph.D., Associate Professor, is the Head of the Department of Foreign Languages with Latin and Medical Terminology at Poltava State Medical University (Ukraine). In 1991, she graduated from the Faculty of Romano-Germanic Philology of Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine) with a major in the French language and literature. Ph.D. by the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, 2011). She is the author and co-author of more than 330 research papers, published in peer-reviewed international journals (including 21 articles indexed in Scopus); 36 textbooks, study guides, dictionaries, and 32 certificates of copyright registration.

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Research Interests
  • Methods of teaching Latin and foreign languages for specific purposes
  • Linguodidactics and testology
  • Terminology studies
  • Linguocultural studies
  • History of medicine
  • Modern French literature

Researcher unique identifier: 0000-0001-9060-4753

Scopus Author ID 57193564540

 

Expertise

Education

1986 – 1991: Uzhhorod State (now National) University (Faculty of Romano-Germanic Philology). Graduated with the qualification “Philologist. Teacher of the French language and literature”.

2005 – 2010: PhD degree training program at the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv).

20.04.2011: Defense of PhD thesis in Pedagogy. Title of PhD thesis: “Professionally oriented teaching of the Latin language for students of higher medical educational institutions of III-IV levels of accreditation” at the Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv).

Selected Publications
  • Bieliaieva OM, Lysanets YV, Znamenska IV, Rozhenko IV, Nikolaieva NM. Terminological collocations in medical latin and english: a comparative study. Wiadomości Lekarskie (Scopus). 2017;70(1):139-143. PMID: 28343209.
  • Bieliaieva O, Lysanets Y, Melaschenko M. Latin as a language of international communicative status: Medicine of the 16th-17th centuries. Georgian Med News (Scopus). 2017 Jan;(262):120-124. PMID: 28252442.
  • Bieliaieva OM, Synytsia VH, Lysanets YV. Pharmaceutical terms with onomastic component: quantitative, structural and lexico-semantic analysis. Wiadomości Lekarskie (Scopus). 2018;71(1 pt 2):217-221. PMID: 29602936.
  • Bieliaieva O, Lysanets Y, Havrylieva K, Znamenska I, Rozhenko I, Nikolaieva N. Paronymy in the Sublanguage of Medicine (Linguistic and Linguo-didactic Aspects). Georgian Med News. 2017 Oct;(271):144-149. PMID: 29099718.
  • Lysanets Yu, Bieliaieva O. The use of Latin terminology in medical case reports: Quantitative, structural, and thematic analysis. Journal of Medical Case Reports (Scopus). 2018;12(45). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1562-x
  • Lysanets Yu, Bieliaieva O. The use of eponyms in medical case reports: Etymological, quantitative, and structural analysis. Journal of Medical Case Reports (Scopus). 2023;17(151). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-023-03895-0
Honors and Awards
  • A Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (2014).
  • Certificates of Honor from the Poltava Regional Council (2011, 2017).
  • A Certificate of Honor from the Poltava Regional State Administration (2016).
  • A Certificate of Honor from the Poltava Regional Military Administration (2023).
  • Certificates of Merit from the Executive Committee of the Poltava City Council (2018, 2024) and the Shevchenkivskyi District Council in Poltava (2019).
  • Diplomas from the XVI and XVII All-Ukrainian “Ukrainian Language – the Language of Unity” competitions in the category “Linguistic Polyphony” for the textbook “Lingua Latina ad usum stomatologiae studentium = Latin for Students of Dentistry and for the Latin-Ukrainian Dictionary of Clinical Terms” (Odesa, 2015).
  • Laureate diplomas in the categories “Search. Truth. Science.” and “Flourish, Our Native Language” for achievements in academic publishing.
Memberships
  • July – December 2021; January – February 2022: Member of the PSMU team in the Higher Education Teaching Excellence Program of Ukraine, implemented under the patronage of the British Council in Ukraine in partnership with the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Advance HE (UK), and with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference “Humanity in the Context of Sustainable Development: Challenges and Prospects” (Semmering, Austria, March 11-14, 2025).
  • Member of NGO “Sobornist” (“Unity”), Ukrainian Association of Researchers and Educators.
  • Member of NGO "Association for the Development of Professional and Continuing Education".
  • Member of the Scientific Society of Anatomists, Histologists, Embryologists, and Topographic Anatomists of Ukraine (Terminology Division).

 

Professional Activities

  •  Teaching Latin and Medical Terminology for undergraduate healthcare students.
  • Curriculum design and development of teaching materials for undergraduate and graduate healthcare students.
  • Delivering Continuing Professional Development lectures on pedagogical skills and conducting workshops for faculty at PSMU.
  • Presentations and chairmanship at international conferences in Canada, Austria, Poland: 2014 – present.
  • Deputy chair of annual international conferences “Essential Topics in Linguistics, Professional Language Teaching, Psychology and Pedagogy of Higher Education” (2016 – present) and “Modern Trends in Foreign Languages Research and Teaching” (2021 – present) at PSMU.
  • November 6, 2021 – December 12, 2021: Head of the project “Implementation of a Culture of Quality in Learning, Teaching, and Assessment in Ukrainian Educational Institutions”, which brought together representatives from 15 higher education institutions across Ukraine. The project was developed, completed, and successfully defended as part of participation in the international internship program “Fundraising and the Basics of Project Activity in Educational Institutions: European Experience”. The program was held under the patronage of the Zustricz Foundation (Poland), the Department of Polish and Ukrainian Studies at Jagiellonian University (Kraków), and the NGO “Sobornist”.
  • November 2021 – February 2022: Participation in the Ukrainian Higher Education Teaching Excellence Programme with the PSMU team project “Advanced Medical Education Hub (AMED Hub)”
Additional Training
  • Professional development course at the National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic"; Certificate No. NV 34-03/21, “Innovative Pedagogical Technologies in Higher Education” (March 31, 2021).
  • February 2020: Training under the program “Expert in Accreditation of Educational Programs” through the Prometheus Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform.
  • June 2021: Training under the program “Strengthening Teaching and Organizational Management in Universities” through the Prometheus MOOC platform.
  • 6.11.21-12.12.21: Zustricz Foundation Department of Polish-Ukrainian Studies of Jagiellonian University in Krakow Career Development Center of NGO Sobornist Luhansk Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education. Certificate SZFL-001000, "Fundraising and Organization of Project Activities in Educational Establishments: European Experience".
  • January – February 2022; April – May 2022: Online trainings in the frame of the Ukrainian – Swiss project “Development of Medical Education”.
  • 27.03.2024-02.04.2024: Professional development program “National Science and Education in the Context of Russia’s War Against Ukraine and Contemporary Civilizational Challenges” as part of the XV International Exhibition “Modern Educational Institutions – 2024”, organized by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, Institute of World History, Institute of Social and Political Psychology, and the Institute of Gifted Child.
  • 11.12.2024-16.12.2024: Professional development program “Innovative Practices in Scientific Education” held within the framework of the IV All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Online Conference (Institute of Adult Education, National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine).
  • 16.12.2024-20.12.2024: Participation in the 5th International Winter School of Pedagogical Excellence “Education 4.0 and Pedagogical Mastery”, organized by the All-Ukrainian Association for the Development of Professional and Continuing Education.
  • 03.03.2025-11.04.2025: International internship program “Humanity in the Context of Sustainable Development: Challenges and Prospects”, Institute of International Academic and Scientific Cooperation (Poland – Ukraine), 180 hours.