ОСОБЛИВОСТІ РЕФОРМУВАННЯ ЗМІСТУ ОСВІТИ МАЙБУТНІХ ЛІКАРІВ-СТОМАТОЛОГІВ (ПОЧАТОК ХХІ СТОЛІТТЯ)

Abstract

The article generalizes that the characteristic features of higher dental education in Ukraine are due to constant changes in the field of dental care, its technological component, materials and tools, procedures, techniques of treatment; increasing requirements for standards and technologies of treatment, which the potential consumer sets in front of the system of dental services; theoretically complex content of fundamental disciplines, which is the basis of dental education and the requirement for its quality. The reform of the essence of higher medical education in Ukraine is also conditioned by the general reforms of the educational sector, the European integration tendencies, the transition to the two-level system of training of specialists with higher education and a credit-module system of organizing the training and assessment of students’ knowledge.The main changes that have taken place were analyzed during the reform stages in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2015 – 2016. The characteristic features of reforming the essence of education of future dentists are summarized: the preservation and development of uniform standards of professional training of specialists in higher medical institutions of Ukraine with the transition in 2016 to the cross-cutting 5-year training program (“Master of Dentistry”, qualification “Dentist”); reorganization of the content of education in accordance with European standards of its layout and orientation, the list and names of disciplines have been brought into line with their names in the curriculum of medical faculties and medical universities of Europe; general reduction of the student’s academic load; improvement of the components of curriculum, of the content and credit structure, which initiates the possibility of academic mobility of students regardless of the semester of study.