FORMATION OF POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINE (early 20th century)

  Nataliya Martynenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine) |    Завантажити статтю

Improvement of human health is a main aim of medical education. Post-graduate medical education is one of the levels of medical training. Physicians get professional practical experience for medical care to the population at this level of education. System of post-graduate education in Ukraine started to form in 1920-s. The network of specialized institutes for improvement of doctor’s qualification was created. Historical experience of these institutions gives us the chance the develop tasks of non-stop training of medical specialists. So, retrospective research has proved that study of practical activity of such kind of institutes in Ukraine gives the valuable material for the further development. Historiography of this problem presented a big number of historical and pedagogic publications, such as works of M. Kovryhina, T. Alyoshyna, M. Muraviev, V. Kardashev, M. Savchenko, Yu. Polyachenko, V. Perederii, O. Volosovets’, in which authors analyzed the maim trends of activity for Institutes of doctors’ and medical workers improvement.