About us (short)

Current European projects conducted in the department:

  • D-CREDO (Digital Health Technologies-augmented Clinical Reasoning Education)
  • CHAPTER SEA (Culture and Health system Adaptation of virtual Patients as collaborative learning eResources SouthEast Asia)
  • MRAME (Mixed Reality supporting Advanced Medical Education)

Other activities:

Selected publications in the last 3 years (current list on PubMed):

  • Fąferek J, Kononowicz AA, Bogutska N, Da Silva Domingues V, Davydova N, Frankowska A, Iguacel I, Mayer A, Morin L, Pavlyukovich N, Popova I, Shchudrova T, Sudacka M, Szydlak R, Hege I. Applying ChatGPT to plan and create a realistic collection of virtual patients for clinical reasoning training. BMC Med Educ. 2025 Oct 2;25(1):1277.

  • Dygut J, Piwowar M. Distinction Between Dysplasia, Malformation, and Deformity-Towards the Proper Diagnosis and Treatment of Hip Development Disorders. Diagnostics (Basel). 2025 Jun 18;15(12):1547.

  • Roterman I, Stapor K, Dułak D, Konieczny L. Heat Shock Protein and Disaggregase Influencing the Casein Structuralisation. Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Jul 1;26(13):6360.

  • Dabrowski W, Tekieli L, Kablak-Ziembicka A, Stefaniak J, Dzierwa K, Mazurek A, Paluszek P, Zmudka K, Pieniazek P, Musialek P. The Effect of Lesion Length on Doppler Velocities Used Routinely to Determine Carotid Stenosis Cross-Sectional Severity. Diagnostics (Basel). 2025 May 15;15(10):1259.
  • Szydlak R, Kiyak YS, Hege I, Torre D, Kononowicz AA. Comparison of Human and GPT-Generated Concept Maps in a Clinical Reasoning Collection of Educational Virtual Patients. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 May 15;327:1024-1028.

  • Kıyak YS, Kononowicz AA. Using a Hybrid of AI and Template-Based Method in Automatic Item Generation to Create Multiple-Choice Questions in Medical Education: Hybrid AIG. JMIR Form Res. 2025 Apr 4;9:e65726.

  • Roterman I, Slupina M, Konieczny L. Protein folding: Funnel model revised. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2024 Oct 21;23:3827-3838.

  • Roterman I, Stapor K, Dułak D, Konieczny L. Domain swapping: a mathematical model for quantitative assessment of structural effects. FEBS Open Bio. 2024 Dec;14(12):2006-2025.

  • Szydlak R. Synergistic Inhibition of Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth and Migration by Gemcitabine and Withaferin A. Biomolecules. 2024 Sep 19;14(9):1178.

  • Tekieli L, Dzierwa K, Grunwald IQ, Mazurek A, Urbanczyk-Zawadzka M, Wiewiorka L, Banys RP, Dabrowski W, Podlasek A, Weglarz E, Stefaniak J, Nizankowski RT, Musialek P. Outcomes in acute carotid-related stroke eligible for mechanical reperfusion: SAFEGUARD-STROKE Registry. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino). 2024 Jun;65(3):231-248. d

  • Fąferek J, Cariou PL, Hege I, Mayer A, Morin L, Rodriguez-Molina D, Sousa-Pinto B, Kononowicz AA. Integrating virtual patients into undergraduate health professions curricula: a framework synthesis of stakeholders’ opinions based on a systematic literature review. BMC Med Educ. 2024 Jul 5;24(1):727.

  • Dygut J, Piwowar M. Torques in the human upper ankle joint level and their importance in conservative and surgical treatment. Sci Rep. 2024 Mar 29;14(1):7525.

  • Banach M. Structural Outlier Detection and Zernike-Canterakis Moments for Molecular Surface Meshes-Fast Implementation in Python. Molecules. 2023 Dec 21;29(1):52.

  • Wróbel S, Turek C, Stępień E, Piwowar M. Data integration through canonical correlation analysis and its application to OMICs research. J Biomed Inform. 2024 Mar;151:104575.

  • Kononowicz AA, Torre D, Górski S, Nowakowski M, Hege I. The association between quality of connections and diagnostic accuracy in student-generated concept maps for clinical reasoning education with virtual patients. GMS J Med Educ. 2023 Sep 15;40(5):Doc61.