PECULIARITIES OF DISTANCE EDUCATION IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER MEDICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

This article describes the specifics of distance learning for students during the COVID-19 pandemic and martial law. Educational institutions are faced with new challenges, among with there is a task to get equipped and prepared to master and apply new methods of digital media technologies and implement digitalization at different levels of the doctor’s training process. Digitalisation of teaching and learning formats in education and training in medicine requires the creating of digitally supported didactic formats, the use of the relevant digital and communication tools as well as digital literacy from both parties. The implementation of the various digital resources will enable to significantly improve the results of distance learning among medical students in obtaining sound theoretical knowledge and mastering practical skills. The positive and negative aspects of distance learning in the institutions of higher medical education were also identified and outlined. The analysis points out that providing high quality distance education requires an investment of much time and considerable costs. The educational process must be equipped with special software, accessories, create and purchase appropriate computer programs and technical devices.
 It is important to stress a special role teaching staff, who must be ready to create various teaching and learning scenarios, master technical skills including uploading documents and videos, providing online instructions for self-directed learning and assessment, video conferencing as a part of classroom evens. Medical education, over time, would be increasingly supplemented by computers with combinations of multimedia elements and new strategies for using teaching and learning technologies. Providing the educational process with simulators and other smart technologies will help medical students to acquire the complex practical skills. In the near future, systems of artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality technologies will be introduced into the educational process of higher medical education institutions that will make a significant breakthrough in ensuring high-quality distance learning.