The tasks of training and continuous professional development of administrative managerial health personnel in the system of supplementary professional education

Abstract

The major purpose of the system of training and continuous professional development is training of competent professionals capable to adequate response to challenges of health care. In health care, the system of training and continuous professional development of administrative and managerial personnel is to be implemented through competence approach. The employer determines working functions and working conditions. The educational organizations determine level of knowledge and skills. The competences are to be a connecting link between them. The successful process of formation and development of competences is needed in designing model of key and professional competences and upgrading actual trajectory of supplementary professional education of health care administrators. The training of health care administrative personnel is to be targeted to mastering integrated standard professional competences which are to be come the basis of educational programs of supplementary professional education in all educational organizations. The development of each competence requires different approaches, means and methods of training which are to be selected by educational organizations independently with observance of main principles of adragogics. The selection of the most effective technologies of education for development of each competence plays an important role in the system of training of health administrative personnel. The practice of common programs of supplementary professional education for health administrators with different set of working functions is to be eradicated. It is appropriate to return to successful national practice of differentiated programs of supplementary professional education addressed to every administrative position. The purpose of concluding qualifying evaluation is to become estimation of level of mastering of competences required in administration activities. The concluding qualifying evaluation is to be carried out by educational organizations conjoint with professional community. The subsequent “monitoring” of administrators is to become as an obligatory component of continuous professional development of health administrators. The consulting by educational organization is an effective form of continuous professional training.