INCrEAsE Interview – Florin Dumitru Petrariu
Profession: Associate Professor of Environmental Health / Signor Medical Officer of Health / Special Physician in Epidemiology / Director of the Preventive Medicine
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
Tutor of the French section / double interaction (teaching + practical works), works with over 120 students/semester, enrolled in English and French section.
INCrEAsE Interview – Beatrice Gabriela Ioan
Profession: MD, Professor – Forensic medicine
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
Quality teaching and mutual respect is fundamental for the student – professor relation. As forensic medicine professor, she tends to train the 6th year students as professionals, while modelling them as human/social beings.
INCrEAsE Interview – Bianca Hanganu
Profession: Forensic specialist physician
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
The main issue is that forensic medicine differs across countries, as well as the training of the practitioners themselves (medicine vs. medicine + law background).
INCrEAsE Interview – Corina Dondas
Profession: Psychologist – Career Counselor
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
Counselling and carrier orientation, personality tests. Issues: phobias, anxiety, depression, socialization. For international students, it mainly relates to adaptation and integration. Positive traits include the desire to experiment and learn new things.
INCrEAsE Interview – Octav Candel
Profession: Teaching assistant
Organization: “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi
Country: Romania
The main benefit is grasping new perspectives from people all over the world, while the main challenge involves various factors: interaction within/outside the university, language barriers etc.
INCrEAsE Interview – Monica Ciolan
Profession: psychologist
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
The student states that there is a considerable difference between the Romanian and the foreign students when it comes to the interaction with the psychologist.
INCrEAsE Interview – Raluca Iurcov
Profession: MD, Lecturer
Organization: University of Oradea
Country: Romania
The large majority of the foreign students come from a Muslim community. A good starting point for the professor would be to have some basic personal knowledge regarding the country from where the students come from (i.e. religion, traditions etc.).
INCrEAsE Interview – Richard Constantinescu
Profession: MD, Lecturer
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
Feedback on a multi-cultural event (Christian, Muslim and Hindu) with the presence of the ambassador. Highly diversified entertainment activities (cuisine, dancing etc.)
INCrEAsE Interview – Vlad Ichim
Profession: Teaching assistant
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
A positive thing is the open dialogue in which both students and professors can engage related to general topics, yet from a personal perspective.
INCrEAsE Interview – Anisoara Pop
Profession: Professor, PHD
Organization: University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology Targu Mures
Country: Romania
Dealing with students from different cultural backgrounds can be especially delicate, let alone daunting, because of the encounter of varying cultural norms, rules of behavior, understanding norms and definitely expectations from teachers and peers.
INCrEAsE Interview – Anca Colibaba
Profession: Professor, PHD
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
In the project Increase I am included in the list of adult educators especially for my concrete experience in working for the last eight years in an international master’s programme.
INCrEAsE Interview – Doina Azoicai
Profession: MD, Professor, PHD
Organization: “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi
Country: Romania
While carrying out her activity as a professor, she improved and wanted to know more about what rules and techniques are useful in the field of medical pedagogy.
INCrEAsE Interview – Doina Spita
Profession: Professor
Organization: Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi
Country: Romania
Doina Spita offers three perspectives on intercultural working with young adults – as a professor of several courses of culture and civilization, as a researcher in the didactics of multilingualism and from the perspective of a practitioner of teaching and learning languages.
INCrEAsE Interview – Monica Vlad
Profession: Certified translator and proofreader
Organization: Linguistic Guide
Country: Romania
What she noticed as a service provider is that, in order to be truly professional and interculturality sensitive, one has to adapt their style, their understanding and their way of thinking to other people’s cultural backgrounds and approaches to various situations.
INCrEAsE Interview – Laura Muresan
Profession: Professor, PHD
Organization: Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Country: Romania
Long-time teacher of English and German provides insights into intercultural international experiences, providing examples of experiences from her own past interactions, as well as addressing aspects of culture learning.
INCrEAsE Interview – Mariana Nicolae
Profession: Professor, PHD
Organization: Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Country: Romania
How can they find the right communication channels and which are the most appropriate skills to ease conflicts and tensions? And how – mostly – how can we teach them?