ACQUISITION OF PRACTICAL SKILLS AND THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE OF "ENDOSCOPY" IN A PANDEMIC COVID-19. WORLD EXPERIENCE

Abstract

Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2019, affected all branches of medicine in Ukraine and the world as a whole, endoscopy in this regard suffered almost the most due to increased vigilance of patients due to the invasiveness of the examination. And, although the number of examinations and operations has decreased, life goes on, people get sick, and distance learning continues. Of course, the student, the intern will benefit more by communicating directly with the patient, looking not only at the progress of the examination or operation on the monitor, but also at the work of the doctor's hands. The second stage of medical reform played a negative role in this regard, which, despite a number of decisions of the Verkhovna Rada and the government, deprived teachers of medical universities who operated, consulted, and provided emergency medical care to practice medicine. It is clear that in such conditions it is not possible to prepare a full-fledged specialist. A little experience, which is a little more than a year, shows that distance learning, along with other factors, significantly complicated the perception of the practical part of the lesson at clinical departments. These new realities of today are forcing us to look for ways to overcome this problem in order to release from universities doctors-practitioners, not theorists, who have never been to the operating room and have not palpated the patient.