MODERN TECHNOLOGIES FOR ASSESSMENT EVALUATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF PRACTICAL SKILLS OF SURGEONS INTERNS

Abstract

Current reform of health care in Ukraine, the integration of local medical science and practice into the global one require that medical educational institutions have to prepare modern medical specialists. Postgraduate medical education plays an important role in this case. The purpose of the work was to develop a theoretical basis for assessing the mastery of practical skills of a surgeon intern for the entire period of study in the internship, using the modern achievements of digital technologies. The period of study after obtaining a diploma is called internship and makes 36 months and only 12 months of them – full-time education. To master all this diverse material during the year, both theoretically and practically, is impossible. We unknowingly ignore the more detailed consideration of those issues with which a young specialist will meet more often at the beginning of his independent activity, where more errors may occur. Mastering of practical skills is more shifted to independent study. The achievements of the twenty-first century, namely developed digital technologies, Internet and smartphones are able to help every young citizen with this. The proposed innovation is based on the “curve of training”, we also developed the mechanism for objectification of assessment of acquired skills, it can also be used for monitoring of their acquirement on-line. Taking into consideration that the only document certifying the employment of an intern is “Intern’s Diary”, we propose to change the format of its management into an electronic one. The above mentioned ideas do not require significant financial costs, but will be able to change the situation for the better already, the accounting of mastered skills will be facilitated, possibility of remote control over the mastering of skills, regardless the location of the department in which the intern works part-time. The social consequence of which will be elimination of a number of hidden problems in acquiring postgraduate education by intern surgeons and as a result a qualitatively new qualification format for a young specialist.