Практико-орієнтований кейс-метод навчання в системі безперервної медичної освіти на основі інформаційних веб-технологій

Abstract

Currently the most important direction in the sphere of higher medical education is the necessity to significantly strengthen the practical aspect of training future physicians, as well as quality postgraduate training while maintaining an appropriate level of theoretical knowledge. The classical system of higher clinical medical education is not able to fully solve the problem of practical training of physicians. The article describes practical-oriented case-method for study of internal medicine with the electronic database of clinical cases, trainers, thematic web quests in the educational process of clinical departments of higher medical institutions and discussed the necessary to establish a university database of clinical cases that can significantly improve the quality of education as undergraduate, as well as postgraduate stages. The article presents the main components of a case study method based on own experience of information web technologies implementation to the educational process: presentations of clinical cases - detailed presentation of a clinical case with visualization results of the examination, review of clinical guidelines important for presented in case pathology, discussing the peculiarities of the clinical case, treatment outcomes, discussion, outstanding issues, prospects of research, etc.; Video lectures of clinical cases with presentations; Practical training simulators - a combination of theoretical material on a specific topic with a large number of clinical situational tasks for it’s mastering; the simulators of clinical cases - a combination of a specific clinical case with logically related test tasks on the topic of the concrete clinical situation; medical educational web-quests are a combination of several topics in the medical discipline due one problem task with the elements of the detective-style information game, with the construction of a branching scenario and a combination of theoretical material on several topics, with the improvement of practical skills and test simulators. The article discussed the advantages and ethical aspects of implementing an electronic database of clinical cases for all participants in the educational process.