ENHANCING QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN SURGERY: THE INTEGRATION OF INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

The goal of medical universities is to train highly qualified personnel who will be able to make a difference in the country's future development. One of the effective methods to achieve this is by introducing modern teaching methods and technologies that gradually update and improve the content, methods, tools, and pedagogical technologies used in the doctor’s training process, ultimately improving the quality of education. This approach is essential at all stages of training highly qualified specialists in academic disciplines at higher medical schools.
 Today, an important element of improving the quality of education is the active implementation of interactive learning technologies in higher educational institutions of Ukraine. These technologies aim to promote the individual formation of professional skills in students, optimize general erudition, stimulate the creative component of the student's personality, and develop cognitive processes such as perception, memory, attention, and imagination. They also cultivate intellectual skills such as analysis, comparison, identifying key information, critical thinking, and decision-making.
 At the Department of Surgery No. 1 of the Poltava State Medical University, a combination of traditional curriculum structure with interactive learning technologies has significantly improved students' success rate in assimilating educational material, promoted the formation of clinical thinking, and enhanced their professional skills and abilities. This approach requires a clear step-by-step implementation by teachers, with a focus on forecasting the results of the learning process, which enables faster and more effective achievement of learning goals.