DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL (PROFESSIONAL) COMPETENCE AS A WAY TO IMPROVING QUALITY OF STUDENTS’ PRACTICAL TRAINING

Abstract

The aim of the work – to define a technological operation, the implementation of which caused the greatest difficulties, tracking the dynamics of its performance by students in the process of training at the III-V courses of the Pharmaceutical Faculty of M. Pyrohov Vinnytsia National Medical University, as well as developing a plan of measures for the improvement of special (professional) competencies in practical training of students.

The main body. The study involved students of the pharmaceutical faculty of the specialties of Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacy of full-time education, during their training in III, IV and V courses. The study included two consecutive stages: I – survey of students on the questionnaire and analysis of their technological schemes for the manufacture of extemporal drugs in order to identify the technological operation, the implementation of which causes the greatest difficulty; ІІ stage – execution of the operation of the dosage with the subsequent determination of the error of weighing by the formula. As a result of the study, it was found that the operation, the execution of which causes the greatest difficulty, for most students (38.89 %), is the dosage by weight, using both manual and tare scales.

Conclusion. The examination of the dynamics of the learning of this skill by students in different periods of study has shown progress in mastering the ability to dosing by weight and improving the practical training of students, as facilitated by the integration of independent theoretical training with the development of the ability to weigh the substances under the direction of the teacher.