In this video, we speak with American Emergency Medicine physician Steve Donnelly, who has been teaching Ukrainian medical professionals and living in Ukraine for several years.

This is more than just an interview — it’s a search for real solutions to improve Ukraine’s medical education system, grounded in context and the many challenges our country faces today.

Together, we explore how medical education in the U.S. differs from that in Ukraine, what roles medical students and interns actually play in hospitals, and why they often remain invisible in the Ukrainian system. We dive into how teaching and learning approaches need to evolve — and why PowerPoint is rarely effective anymore.

We also touch on the hard truths: low salaries for doctors, burnout, Latin language overload, ineffective educators, and a system that often lacks real student feedback mechanisms.

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