HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL BACKGROUND OF DOCTORS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AT THE UNIVERSITIES IN THE USA

Abstract

The article analyses the research papers by American scientists of the XX – early XI centuries concerning problems of development of medical education in the USA. The necessity to systematize pedagogical information in order to summarize existing theoretical experience in the context of medical education has been proved. A large-scale analytical study of medical education in the United States and Canada, called the Flexner Report, resulting in fundamental reforms in American medical education, have been analysed. The modern scientific researches aimed at improvement of system of future doctors’ training in the USA have been discussed. On the basis of the analysed works, the conclusions about the vector of modern pedagogical science in the USA in the context of medical education have been made. It has been established that the main issues addressed in basic pedagogical studies of American medical education are the problems of quality of specialists’ training, who are competitive in the labour market, introduction of more advanced standards of doctors’ training, mechanisms of assessment of quality of medical education.