Competence-Based Approach and Prospects for Continuous Medical Education in Addressing Current Issues in Healthcare Organisation and Management

Abstract

Purpose: to study the competence-based approach and the quality of medical education at the postgraduate stage of specialist training, to highlight the use of modern active technologies and methods in the training of medical personnel, and to analyse organisational and methodological issues related to the implementation of this experience, as well as the prospects for the development of continuing medical education. Materials and methods. In the course of the study, an integrated approach was applied, including a survey of medical professionals who were students of the specialisation cycle “Organisation and Management of health protection” of the Department of Hygiene and Social Medicine of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Results. In the study, the authors paid special attention to methods such as case technology, business games, the project method, brainstorming, and simulation training. But the greatest effect is achieved with a combination of methods. Learning with the help of active technologies in improvement cycles is of greater interest to adult specialists compared to traditional methods. In addition, modern learning technologies improve the quality of education, as evidenced by the final control results. Conclusions. Modern teaching methods in continuous medical education significantly improve the quality of specialist training due to their flexibility and their ability to integrate with participants’ professional activities during the learning process. Today, the transition we have analysed, from the classical assessment of training medical specialists’ results to the assessment of their competencies, is quite progressive.