FEATURES OF TEACHING CLINICAL ANATOMY AND OPERATIONAL SURGERY IN MODERN CONDITIONS

Abstract

Reforming higher medical education in Ukraine provides for the introduction of a credit-modular system into the educational process. The main task in the study of clinical anatomy and operative surgery is to strengthen the knowledge and fundamental practical skills in clinical anatomy and operative surgery for each student to form high-quality professional skills. In the educational process in practical classes on operative surgery and clinical anatomy, teachers of the Department of Clinical Anatomy and Operative surgery of the Higher State Educational Institution of Ukraine "Ukrainian Medical Dental Academy" successfully combine various newest forms of education. Thanks to this, the role of the teacher changes significantly: he becomes not only a source of passive acquisition of knowledge for students, but also an initiator of their creative search, an organizer of independent work. The use of the latest teaching technologies allows the teacher to assess not individual knowledge, skills and abilities of a student, but the level of his professional skills. An interesting, in our opinion, is the combination of the case method and the business one. First, a clinical situation is modeled when a student needs to decide on the diagnosis, tactics of surgical treatment, and the choice of the most rational method of surgical intervention. At the same time, at all stages of the search for a solution to the problem posed, students should pay attention to the issues of clinical anatomy. Having fundamental knowledge of normal anatomy, they should be able to substantiate the diagnosis from a morphological point of view, choose the most rational surgical approach, explain the ways of the probable spread of purulent-inflammatory processes and the tactics of stopping bleeding in case of damage to various vessels. Considerable attention is paid to the possible complications or difficulties of surgical treatment, in particular, associated with aspects of clinical anatomy. In this way, we develop students' clinical integrated thinking and a clear understanding of the importance of interdisciplinary connections in medicine. Optimization of the educational process in the study of our discipline is possible only with the use of innovative forms of education.