PANDEMIC LESSONS: DIGITALIZING TRENDS ON MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE COVID-19 ERA

Abstract

The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of the Institutes of health aimed at reducing the spread of the disease required an immediate change in the traditional approach to education, especially medical. Against the background of severe restrictions in the implementation of educational programs – normative, situational and managerial - universities have an acute question about the available opportunities for mastering the competencies of the educational standard in a remote format. Forced emergency changes in approaches, forms, and methods of training allowed overcoming the crisis in the field of medical education. The article highlights the main trends in medical education formed during the crisis associated with the new coronavirus infection. The experience of organizing training in a pandemic in an educational organization is presented. The purpose of this work is to identify the main trends in the digitalization of medical education during the period of the threat of the spread of a new coronavirus infection. Methods of comparative analysis, description and subject modeling of indicators recorded in the electronic educational environment of the University for the period of 2020 were applied, as well as information from the Portal of continuing medical and pharmaceutical education was used. As a result, the main trends in the digitalization of medical education during the period of high alert on the example of COVID-19 were identified: the introduction of online education; personalization of medical education; transformation of working time and revision of process management practices at the university. The identified trends have led to the preservation of the quality of training for practical health care and have become a new starting point in the strategy for the development of medical education.