The Use of Competition and Creativity as Key Driver to Promote Scientific Culture among Students

Abstract

The use of didactic games in order to promote scientific culture leads to innovative methodologies and technologies that can be very effective for the learning process of students or simply to make them more curious about “critical disciplines” such as mathematics. Delivering learning games means making an effort to meet the language and the culture of learners, focusing on their motivation: this aim can be achieved by developing projects and products with a high use of competitiveness and creativity

Transdisciplinary integration through the study of the history of medicine

“…The course of History of Medicine has a positive impact on the formation of students' personalities and motivates them to obtain a medical specialty. History of Medicine plays a special role in the formation of a sense of inclusion into science in future specialists [19]. This is possible due to a special focus of the course on providing students with extensive information about such great scientists as a great geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, physiologists Ivan Sechenov, Archibald Hill, Charles Louis Alfonse Laveran, Ivan Pavlov, doctors Ronald Ross, Emil Adolf von Bering, Nils Ryberg Finzen, Nikolai Pirogov, Robert Koch, Nikolay Sklifosovsky, Sergey Botkin, and many others, whose examples inspire future scientists to new achievements in science [20].…”