Abstract

The main features of the system of ‘higher medical education’ in Ukraine are presented. The principles of undergraduate, specialist training, and postgraduate education on oncology are described in detail and discussed in terms of European standards of cancer education. It is underlined that the cancer education in the system of higher and postgraduate education should be continuous, multidisciplinary, and of high quality.

Highlights

  • The courses that the OECI E&TWG organises on a continual basis concerning different issues of cancer diagnosis and treatment are extremely important for our oncologists, both practitioners and researchers, and the possibility of participation in such events will undoubtedly be useful for obtaining new current knowledge on very specific areas of oncology

  • The term ‘high education’ means the level of knowledge acquired in higher education institutions on the basis of general secondary education; it is a result of a consistent, systematic, and deliberate process of mastering educational content and is completed via obtaining a specific qualification on the basis of state certification, and an individual who successfully passed the state certification receives a document on higher education

  • We need to create an efficient system of continuing medical education, which is logically replaced with the term ‘continuous professional development’, meaning a period of education and training of physicians, which begins after the completion of basic medical education and postgraduate training, and continues thereafter throughout the whole professional life of every physician

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The courses that the OECI E&TWG organises on a continual basis concerning different issues of cancer diagnosis and treatment are extremely important for our oncologists, both practitioners and researchers, and the possibility of participation in such events will undoubtedly be useful for obtaining new current knowledge on very specific areas of oncology.

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