COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TOWARD PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS DURING THE COURSE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY

Abstract

The system of higher education and, in particular, medical education is facing the challenge not only to equip students with certain sum of knowledge, to preparing competent and competitive specialists, but to foster deep moral and ethical principles and the right perception of professional. Nowadays, higher medical education should not only provide high-quality training of globally competitive specialists, but teach the m to act as leaders in reforming the health care sector and implementing the social priorities of the state. Therefore, raising the quality of education at medical universities is a key task of lectures and clinical instructors. This requires constant improvement of the effectiveness in the organization and digitalization of the educational process, the implementation of scientific advances and technologies into teaching practice, ensuring the high professionalism of teachers, creating modern educational and methodological support for delivering disciplines of medical-biological and medical cycles. The training of a highly qualified specialist and the formation of the personality of a future doctor who will be able to perceive the necessary information, independently obtain and use it, and solve complex professional tasks is the main goal of the educational process at the Department of Biology. Therefore, at the very early stages of teaching the discipline, scientific and pedagogical staff of the department put a lot of effort to fostering students’ ability to analyze and systematize the theoretical knowledge, to create their own algorithms for solving situational and clinical problems, that is, they outline the professional direction of training and laying the foundations of clinical thinking. The department implements a comprehensive approach, which includes: publishing and revision of text-books, creating test banks, compiling sets of additional materials for assimilation of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in accordance with the curriculum, mastering professional terminology, solving situational tasks, and building up creative interaction between students and teachers.