V.L. Slipchuk
Bogomolets National Medical University
Special features of organization for
professional training of foreign citizens at the higher medical (pharmaceutical)
educational institutions of Ukraine
Multiple vector activity of the higher medical (pharmaceutical) educational
institutions of Ukraine is based on results of a steady functioning and
strategical building up, laid through a consecutive work of the teaching staff
(professors & teachers), of achievements and traditions of history of the
most powerful in a country of medical (pharmaceutical) universities, of programming
tasks in accordance with the priority directions of development of the national
system of education and public health, of integration to a common European
educational space and recommended valid strategical documents of the State and
branch levels.
Professional training of specialists for pharmaceutical branch of
Ukraine in a complicated social & economical situation is being steady
looking for ways of improvement and development of the pharmaceutical education
system, it studies a practical experience of a functioning of the European
model for public health by the example of other countries.
Main forms of international cooperation of the higher medical
(pharmaceutical) educational institutions and institutions of post-diploma
education of Ukraine: realization of joint international programs and projects;
academic exchange programs; conducting of international congresses and
scientific symposiums; involvement to study of foreign citizens; undersigning
of agreements about a mutual acknowledgement of documents about education,
scientific degrees and titles with countries, which citizens are studying here
in Ukraine; building up an educational exhibition system for advertisement
& information reasons, out of city consulting points of the higher medical
(pharmaceutical) educational institutions and post-diploma education
institutions at the diplomatic establishments of Ukraine abroad; building up a
mutually beneficial cooperation with the foreign public and private
institutions through knowledge of system for pharmaceutical education in
Ukraine.
At present stage as a most complicated task of modernization of
specialists’ professional training of pharmaceutical branch in Ukraine is to find
a compromise between a national achievement in a branch of the higher
pharmaceutical education and processes of globalization and convergence of
education. As to modernization and introduction of innovations in a process of
the professional training of specialists for the pharmaceutical branch, to our
mind, as an efficient precondition for transition from words about an
innovative development of the higher pharmaceutical education to its concrete
development will be here an extension of different methods, means and forms of
study. In particular, a number of foreign citizens in Ukraine, which are
studying at the higher medical (pharmaceutical) educational institutions and
institutions of the post-diploma education of Ukraine, are steady being
increased. How in his report indicated «Special Features of Organization for
Study of Foreign Citizens within a Current Academic Year» dated 12.03.2015 by
the General Director of DP - Daughter Enterprise «International Program Centre»
of MOZ (Ministry of Public Health) of Ukraine YU.I. Fesun, 21389 foreign
citizens from 124 countries of the world study at the higher medical (pharmaceutical)
educational institutions of Ukraine and at the post-diploma institutions of
education during the academic year of 2015 – 2016.
Professional training of the foreign citizens in Ukraine for
pharmaceutical branch under specialization «Pharmacia» as for academic year of 2014 – 2015 is being
performed at the following higher medical (pharmaceutical) educational
institutions of Ukraine: National Pharmaceutical University, Zaporizhzhya State
Medical University, Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy, O.O. Bohomolets
National Medical University, Odessa Medical National University, Ivano-Frankivsk
National Medical University, I.YA. Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical
University, Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University, M.I. Pyrohov
Vinnytsya National Medical University, M. Horkyi Donetsk National Medical
University, Luhansk State Medical University.
The professional training of specialists for sphere of public health
within academic year of 2015 – 2016 is being conducted for 3873 foreign
citizens, who have been enrolled for the first year of study. The professional
before-diploma training of specialists for sphere of public health within academic
year of 2015 – 2016 is being executed for 518 foreign citizens in the frame of
preliminary courses. After study completion at the higher medical
(pharmaceutical) educational institutions of Ukraine each graduate, apart from
the Diploma of Specialist and Supplement to Diploma of a national example, would
receive the Supplement to the Diploma of international example «Diploma
Supplement», which has been worked out by the European Commission, Counsel of
Europe, UNESCO/CEPES while providing an objective information for improvement
of international transparence as well a fair and professional acknowledgement
of qualifications for academic and professional acknowledgement in Europe with
respect to obtained higher education. The professional training of students –
foreigners for English-speaking form of study of the pharmaceutical branch
under specialty «Pharmacia» increases efficiency of a pedagogical activity, capability
to an innovative pedagogical activity and pedagogical competence of the
teaching staff of the higher medical (pharmaceutical) educational institution, as
well it promotes to a rising of pharmacia level in those countries, who should need it, to
exchange with an important professional experience with the foreign colleagues
and to deepening of the international cooperation in the pharmaceutical branch.
In our opinion, the professional training of foreign citizens which are
studying at the higher medical (pharmaceutical) educational institutions and
the post-diploma education institutions of Ukraine and introduction of the
English-speaking teaching on the professional training of specialists for the
pharmaceutical branch will assist to development of the national system for
pharmaceutical education and public health as well of integration to the common
European educational space.