RATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PLANS AS A GUARANTEE OF QUALITY TRAINING MASTER’S DEGREE IN “MEDICINE”

Abstract

The main priority of modern medical education is continuous improvement of teaching approaches to the training of doctors, making additions and changes to educational plans and programs meet the needs of health care. Reducing the number of classroom hours under the Law of Ukraine on higher education necessitates a responsible attitude to their distribution between academic disciplines. Higher medical education is rather specific and unlike other educational process. From the 1st year medical students should receive a large amount of basic medical knowledge and skills.

The paper highlights the main problems of distribution of classroom hours between courses and academic disciplines, artificially increased or, conversely, insufficient quantity of hours, duplication of the same subject in different departments during it teaching in the various disciplines, lack of modernity, as well as fragmentation, lack modern and dissociation students received medical knowledge. Said inefficient use of classroom hours is unacceptable. The authors suggest that partial redistribution hours can be very useful.

Quality medical education to a large extent depends on the the rational use of available classroom hours. This is possible only if to review educational plans according to the principle of sequential, logical and modern teaching subjects in medical university.