Improving the quality of medical education throught the introduction of moodle system for the formation of terminological competence of medical students.

OBJECTIVE: Aim is to analyze the possibilities of using the electronic system Moodle for the formation of professional and terminological competence of medical students during the study of terminological competence for improving the quality of medical education. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and Methods: The research used a number of scientific methods: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization), specific research and others which ensured the selection and analysis of the source base, made it possible to determine the general trends in the study of the problem of using the electronic system Moodle for the formation of professional and terminological competence of medical students during the study of terminological competence for improving the quality of medical education. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: At I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University we actively use the e-learning system Moodle (Modular Object Oriented Distance Learning Environment), to which there is free and unrestricted access. Using this program, the student takes on the role of an active subject who independently acquires knowledge, forms his/her own system of skills, of course with the help of certain sources, and the role of the teacher in this scheme is to motivate and suport learners, prepare information sources used in self-study, etc. This is due to a significant increase in the requirements for quality training of future specialists n the medical field and market conditions in Ukraine, which set before the higher school the task of training specialists of the new generation who would be highly qualified, competitive, literate, and have perfect command of their professional terminology. The Moodle system is able to optimize the learning process, promote the formation of terminological competence and master professional vocabulary. When creating educational and methodological complexes for the formation of terminological competence, the means of teaching, as well as the ways of presenting educational material and the principles of organizing the educational activities of students become important. The electronic platform Moodle, which has a wide range of resources for teaching and testing, is able to expand the communicative competencies and skills of students needed to effectively master professional Latin terminology. The Moodle system has the optimal set of resource opportunities for the implementation of blended learning - classroom and extracurricular, which is its main advantage.

CURRENT PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS: UKRAINIAN AND EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC CONTEXTS.

OBJECTIVE: The aim is to analyze the current problems in communicative development of children with special educational needs. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The research used a number of scientific methods: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization), historical, specific research, comparative-historical, and others, which ensured the selection and analysis of the source base, made it possible to determine the general trends in the study of the problem of the communicative development of the child, the achievements of Ukrainian and foreign scientists in the field of research on the language of children with special educational needs, to distinguish the common and the different in the scientific research of scientists. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Updated studies of scientists from Ukraine, Poland, Sweden, Britain and other countries testify that communication skills are key in the language development of a preschool child, they form the basis without which the child's further education, socialization, etc. are impossible. Meanwhile, there is no unity among scientists in their views on the nature of language disorders and their classification. The contribution of domestic and foreign authors to the study of the communicative development of a child with speech difficulties is singled out.

DIDACTIC CULTURE OF MEDICAL UNIVERSITY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To analyse the essence of the concept of "didactic culture", to outline its structure, to describe the peculiarities of the development of the didactic culture of teachers and students in the conditions of war, to characterize the role of information technologies in its formation. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: A number of scientific methods were used in the research: a comparative-historical method to consider retrospectively the concept of didactic culture; bibliographic method to identify the existing source base; content analysis for analytical processing of literature; chronological method to analyse the study of didactic culture in a time sequence; structural and systemic analysis to clarify its specifics at different levels; comparative analysis to establish common and specific features in the system of didactic culture development in different countries; a questionnaire method for studying students' opinions about the structure of speech culture as a component of didactic culture; a method of generalization and specification that contributes to the formulation of conclusions and recommendations on the didactic culture development. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: The didactic culture is considered as a socio-pedagogical phenomenon and an important component of professional and pedagogical culture. The didactic culture development in wartime conditions should be based on the principles of humanism, praxeology and acmeology, with the account of the challenges and features of the information society and the globalized world. In this context, systematic comparative studies will contribute to the use of the experience of other countries, and the development of psychodidactics will allow to approach the understanding of the deep patterns of the process of didactic culture development.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS A FACTOR IN STRENGTHENING THE STUDENTS' MENTAL HEALTH DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the article is to reveal the potential of Emotional Intelligence (EI) as a factor in strengthening the students' mental health (MH) during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The experimental work was carried out in four stages: 1) preparation - substantiation of its scientific and theoretical principles; 2) ascertaining - development of prognostic tools, conducting an on-line survey of students, an analysis of its results; 3) formative - training with the experimental group participants following the author's methodology; 4) control - survey of experimental group members, determination of experimental results. About 230 students of Ukraine took part in the survey. The statistical processing of the survey results was performed by formal mathematical calculations and calculating Student's t-criterion in order to verify the equality of the mean dependent values in different samples. RESULTS: Results: The presented results of the research and experiment prove that Emotional Intelligence, in particular its four identified components (іnformation, аdaptivebehaviour, self-control, empathy), can be an effective factor not only in maintaining university students' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also in their adaptation to other adverse conditions. A comparison of the results of our research with similar sociological research shows the similarity of problems and changes in the students' mental health all over the world during the pandemic. The materials tested during the development of prognostic tools and training methods can be taken into account for the organization of such research and training activities. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: The presented results of the research and experiment prove that EI, in particular its four identified components, can be an effective factor not only in maintaining university students' MH during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also in their adaptation to other adverse conditions. A comparison of the results of our research with similar sociological research shows the similarity of problems and changes in the students' MH all over the world during the pandemic. The materials tested during the development of prognostic tools and training methods are publicly available on the Internet, so they can be taken into account for the organization of such research and training activities. At the same time, we insist that the pandemic should not only intensify the study of changes in MH, but also stimulate the search for effective means to strengthen it. Sir Winston Churchill's eloquent appeal "Never let a good crisis go to waste" should be a guideline in solving this problem.

ANTI-ALCOHOL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND ADULTS AS A FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF HEALTH-SAVING COMPETENCE THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINE.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To analyze the leading trends in anti-alcohol education of children, youth and adults in Western Ukraine from the end of the 19th centry till the 1930s and to determine the possibilities of using this historical experience under modern conditions. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: A number of scientific methods were used in the research: chronological, historical, specific-search methods that provide selection, analysis of the source base, make it possible to determine general trends, directions, forms, achievements of anti-alcohol education of children, youth and adults in Western Ukraine from the end of the 19th century till the 1930s; extrapolation and actualization i.e. focus on creative understanding, adaptation and use of this historical experience under modern conditions, consideration of anti-alcohol education of children, youth and adults as a factor in the formation of health preservation and in general the Ukrainian gene pool under the modern challenges of the war, which Ukraine faced. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Knowledge about a healthy lifestyle became the basis for people's health-preserving behavior, anti-alcohol education acted as a factor in the formation of the health-preserving competence of an individual, which included relevant knowledge, skills and behavior for creating and cultivating a health-preserving environment. This experience now deserves to be used creatively in the process of forming the health-saving competence of the individual throughout his life.

FEATURES OF FORMING SELF-EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE DOCTORS.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To analyse the self-educational competence formation for future doctors in higher education institutions. The process has to be analyzed from the presence of motives regarding the educational activity of the individual to personal need for self-improvement. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The diagnostic stage, which was conducted in 2020-2021, included 300 sixth-year students from three higher educational institutions: I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk National University. RESULTS: Results: Comparative analysis shows that the level of self-educational competence formation for future doctors in higher education institutions depends on the form of educational activityto a large extent. It was established that 196 (65%) future doctors prefer practical training at the patient's bedside, 92 medical students (31%) study in simulation centers, and 12 young people (4%) consider combined classes and generalizing conferences to be important. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Research and experimental verification of the effectiveness of the self-educational competence formation for future doctors took place during the training of sixth-year students at a higher educational institution. Innovative methods of developing critical thinking, information and interactive tech¬nologies were used.

ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS FORMATION AMONG STUDENTS AS RELEVANT AND GLOBAL PROBLEM OF THE PRESENT: UKRAINIAN AND POLISH EXPERIENCE.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: The purpose of the study is to develop a scientifically grounded methodology for the formation of ecological consciousness among students on the activity basis, taking into account the interdisciplinary approach in the process of extracurricular work. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The research was conducted during 2016-2021 on the basis of pedagogical faculty of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (PNU, Ukraine) in several stages.At the theoretical and diagnostic stage, the state of problem development in the scientific literature was studied; international documents on environmental protection and sustainable development were studied; domestic pedagogical experience was analyzed and generalized; through interviews, questionnaires, observations, interviews a statement experiment was carried out, which resulted in initial data on the state of environmental knowledge of future professionals, study the results of students' acquisition of environmental knowledge in university, their attitude to environmental protection, willingness to improve their knowledge of nature. 200 students were involved in the experiment. Also, students from the Warsaw Medical University (WMU, Poland) were interviewed. RESULTS: Results: The ecological consciousness formation among future specialists has to be done on the activity basis. It should be a purposeful and completely voluntary process, taking into account the students' interests on interdisciplinary basis, using traditional methods (narration, conversation, lecture, etc.), but with an emphasis on the activity basis. Environmental education in higher education institutions should gain the status of a strategic large-scale and high priority course, with expanded and updated content, form and methods of training, which are based on the activity basis. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Forms and methods of ecologic and humanistic nature forming the ecological consciousness of a person create a model of positive moral and social behavior; forming such a behavior among students will ensure the nature preservation on planet Earth.

MANAGERIAL COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To analyze the problem of university management in the cultural and philosophical aspects. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The research was conducted in the form of a written questionnaire. Students were supposed to give a single answer to each question. The survey was conducted in September 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 academic year at Ternopil National Medical University. It encompassed 274 second-year Ukrainian students of medical, dental and pharmaceutical faculties and Institute of Nursing and 228 first, second and third year foreign students, who have come from the USA and study at the faculty of foreign students and International School of Medicine. Although the number of foreign students who participated in the survey was small, we believe that the number of respondents was sufficient enough to draw conclusions about the general trends in the issue under study. RESULTS: Results: Analysis of responses given by Ukrainian and American students allowed us to single out certain trends and specific differences in their outlook and professionally relevant persuasions and attitudes. A positive peculiarity is that the main motive that prompted Ukrainian students to choose a medical profession was that they believe it to be humane and noble (36%). Despite this, many students consider other important criteria when choosing a profession; particularly that it is prestigious and well-paid (21 % and 13 % respectively). The negative sign is that relatively big amount of students in the comparison with Western countries (the USA in particular), indicate that the occupational choice was influenced by their parents' desire (14 %). CONCLUSION: Conclusions: The role of pedoetology as one of the priorities of pedagogical science and practice, which should generalize managerial aspects, has been proved. The experience of university education of the USA in the questions of educational management has been analyzed. An overview of the basic concepts relevant to the management of American higher education has been conducted. The features of university management in the USA in modern conditions have been characterized. The differences in the field of professionally significant value orientations between Ukrainian and American students have been investigated. The emphasis is given to the role of teachers' philosophical culture in successful teaching and learning.

TRAINING OF FUTURE PROFESSIONALS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the research is to develop the educational recommendations for acquiring environmental knowledge of future specialists on the basis of the analysis of the educational state of ecology in the theory and practice of higher education. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: During the research, a group of methods was used. It consisted of the theoretical (specific search) methods i.e. analysis, comparison and generalization of scientific literature on the problem of research to systematize and summarize the facts, information, materials on the problem under study and determine the essence of basic concepts; structural and functional methods i.e. analysis of the content of curricula, textbooks, manuals, dictionaries, directories, etc.). RESULTS: Results: Future experts were interviewed to evaluate their environmental and professional orientation and level of environmental knowledge. The questionnaire was aimed at clarifying the following problems: determining the level of environmental knowledge of future specialists for sustainable development; attitude of students to environmental problems; determination of the level of ecological consciousness, environmental activity of students. The questionnaire was created on the Google Forms online resource and was used both online and in the standard standard face-up form in the test form filling at the classrooms. The respondents were students receiving engineering, biological and pedagogical education. The age of the participants in the experimental study reached 18-22 years. The ratio of men and women at this stage of the experiment varied within the following limits: 34.66% of male and 65.34% of male (150 persons in total). CONCLUSION: Conclusions: The great responsibility for the environment and the future gene pool of the nation rests not only on state structures but also on educators, the public, the church and other factors. We suggest, the path to the ecological culture lies through effective environmental education, through the greening of citizens' consciousness. Therefore, in time, the reorientation of the educational system content in the dimension of sustainable development, which envisages its greening in the first place i.e. the development of environmental thinking, the acquisition of environmental knowledge, the formation of environmental behaviors so that children and adolescents can nowadays and in the future be able to satisfy their needs in safety of nature, without harming it, took care of the environment, about their own health and safety, acted in the environment and made appropriate decisions not as consumers but as conscious citizens.

DEVELOPMENT OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD TRENDS.

The aim of the research is to analyze the problem of inclusive education in Ukraine in the context of world trends. According to its philosophy, each school should be inclusive, which implies the readiness of the school to accept every child with SEN at any time, the desire to create the most favorable educational environment that will serve the development of its potential. According to the results of the analysis, we also conclude that Ukrainian scientists pay more attention to issues of inclusion related to higher education (foreign experience, features of teaching students with inclusion, training future teachers to work with children with disabilities, etc.). Meanwhile, in our opinion, the theoretical and methodological principles, pedagogical conditions, practical methods of organizing inclusive education of children with various types of developmental disabilities are insufficiently studied. This, among other things, highlights the scientific problem raised in our study. Thus, the attention of the Ukrainian state to people with SEN, European-oriented social educational policy is evidenced not only by the reduction of the number of boarding schools, orphans and children deprived of parental care there, but also the dynamics of growing enrollment of children with SEN in inclusive special classes of secondary schools (in 2020/2021 academic year compared to 2015/2016 academic year this amount increased by 7% (from 5.3 thousand to 5.7 thousand). As a result of the development of inclusive education over the past five years, the number of students with SEN covered by inclusive education has increased more than 6 times, and the number of inclusive classes in secondary schools has increased 7 times. Similar changes have taken place in the staffing of inclusive education. Inclusive education and upbringing of children with SEN is a long-term strategy that is considered not as a local area of work, but as a systematic approach to organizing the activities of the general education system in all areas in general.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS A FACTOR OF PRESERVING MENTAL HEALTH AND ADAPTATION OF STUDENT YOUTH TO CRISIS SITUATIONS.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: Organization of research work to substantiate and verify the potential development of emotional intelligence (EI) among student youth as a factor in preserving their mental health (MH) and adapting to crisis situations, in particular, those caused by military actions in Ukraine. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The experimental base was 54 student-teachers of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). They were divided into a control group (34 people) and an experimental group (20 people), who participated in training according to the author's program. The questionnaire "Self-assessment of adaptability and well-being in crisis conditions of martial law" became the main prognostic tool of the research work. It was developed on the basis of D. Lusin's EI measurement technique, the MSCEIT test; the method of differential diagnosis of depressive states by V. Zung. RESULTS: Results: The research work consisted of two parts: theoretical (definition of terminology, conceptual concepts, hypotheses of research work; development of a structural model of EI) and experimental, which was implemented in three stages: ascertainment (determination of the initial level of EI of the participants of the experiment), formative (organization of training according to the author's experimental program), control (determination of changes in the level of proficiency of EI students). The positive influence of the author's program on the increase in the indicators of EG members' possession by four components of EI (informational; adaptive behavior; self-control; empathy) at three levels is substantiated: high - an increase from 12.25% to 25%; average decrease from 43.75 to 47%; low - a decrease from 44% to 28.75%. The common, special, excellent results of our research work and experimental studies of other authors are shown. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: The conducted study generally confirmed the hypothesis that thanks to the training of EI (in particular, its four components: informational; adaptive behavior; self-control; empathy) can become an effective factor in preserving a person's MH and adapting to crisis situations. The prognostic toolkit presented in the work, the procedure for formalizing the results of the experiment, and the methodology of the author's training program for the formation of EI are extremely representative, understandable, and valid. Since the research is based on materials that are publicly available on the Internet, its results can be used and developed by either scientists or medical and social workers, practicing teaching. All life crises, including those caused by military events, mass casualties and large-scale destruction, get to the end sooner or later. Therefore, their experience should be carefully studied in order to effectively use the potential of EI in increasing human life resources.

SYSTEM OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE LITERACY FORMATION FOR FUTURE MEDICAL WORKERS THROUGH THE PRISM OF LANGUAGE TRAINING.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to analyze the formation of professional communicative literacy of future medical workers, which includes a personal development component provided by independent language preparation for the use of medical terminology. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The diagnostic stage, which was conducted in 2019-2020, included 400 students from four higher educational institutions: I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ivano-Frankivsk National University, Uzhhorod National University. These are students who completed the study of such disciplines as "Latin language and basics of medical terminology", "Human anatomy", "Histology", "Pharmacology" in the 1st year of studying. RESULTS: Results: The comparative analysis shows that this determined the level of formation of the students' motivational sphere in the direction of speech preparation for the use of medical terminology in Latin language classes, and the following results were obtained. With regard to the main motivating points for Latin classes, it was established that 115 (28.75%) young people study it with great interest, strive to improve their knowledge of medical terminology further, as they are sure that they will definitely need it in their future professional activities. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Research and experimental verification of the effectiveness of pedagogical conditions and the structural-functional model of professional language training of future doctors for the use of medical terminology took place during the training of first-year-students at the higher educational establishment. Innovative methods of developing critical thinking, information and interactive technologies were used.Positive changes in the results of professional and language training of CG students (increase in average figure from 3.51 to 3.69 points) are caused by the natural influence of the traditional educational process, and changes in average figures in EG (from 3.51 to 3.92 points) show the effectiveness of implementation of defined pedagogical conditions.

VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT OF UKRAINIAN STUDENTS IN THE FIELD OF MEDICAL AID, EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS (END OF THE XIX - 30S OF THE XX CENTURY).

OBJECTIVE: The aim is to analyze the leading directions of volunteer activity of Ukrainian students in the field of medical, social assistance, education of children, youth and adults in Galicia (end of the 19th - 30s of the 20th century). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The study uses a number of scientific methods: chronological, historical, specific search, content analysis - provide selection, analysis of the source base, allow to identify general trends, directions of development, achievements and gaps of the Ukrainian student movement in Galicia in the field of medical, social care, education and enlightenment of children and adults in the late XIX - 30s of the XX century; extrapolation and actualization - focus on creative thinking, adaptation and use of this historical experience under the current conditions. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Voluntary activity of Ukrainian students (end of the 19th - 30s of the 20th century) is an interesting peculiar phenomenon not only in national, but also in European history, which has real achievements and deserves a scientific and theoretical understanding from the standpoint of today. Student volunteer experience in the field of social and medical protection of children and adults, education, cultural development, promotion of a healthy lifestyle, dissemination of sanitary and hygienic knowledge, medical counseling can be useful and instructive now, when Ukraine is fighting against the Russian aggressor. We outline the volunteer activity of students who belonged to the "Medychna hromada" society (1910-1944) as a national phenomenon of the organization of public medical care of the population of Galicia, which has no analogue in the history of Ukrainian medicine. It is primarily about a high degree of civic self-awareness, patriotism, self-sacrifice for the benefit of the Ukrainian people, the provision of medical services to low-income sections of the population, widows, orphans, disabled people, veterans of the Great War, medical care of children and youth, etc. - all this inspires modern doctors who provide assistance to soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wounded in hospitals, internally displaced persons, etc.

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE PRINCIPLES FORMATION OF CHILDREN AGED 6-7.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the article is to determine pedagogical conditions of healthy lifestyle principles formation of children aged 6-7. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: Three groups of methods have been used in the research - theoretical - content analysis of scientific literature and modeling; empirical - surveys, observations, questionnaires and pedagogical experiment; statistical - mathematical processing, quantitative and qualitative analysis. RESULTS: Results: The definition of notion «health¼ has been analyzed. Attention is focused on the interdisciplinary aspect of the problem. We have conducted pedagogical experiment wcich involved 145 primary school studets (aged 6-7) of Lviv specialized school № 8 (Ukraine) in order to find ways to form the healthy lifestyle principles in general secondary educational institutions. We have identified the levels of formation of healthy lifestyle of primary school children (aged 6 - 7) as high, medium and low. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: The organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of the healthy lifestyle principles of children aged 6-7during curriculum and extracurriculum activities are: axiological approach application to the formation of healthy lifestyle principles; strengthening positive attitude of primary school children (aged 6-7) toward the healthy lifestyle principles formation; organizational, methodological and pedagogical support of the healthy lifestyle principles of primary school students. It has been found that the implementation of the proposed tools contributes to better understanding of healthy lifestyle importance and develop means to be fit and healthy.

SANITARY AND HYGIENIC EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MEASUREMENT OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF PUBLIC MEDICINE OF GALICIA (END OF THE XIX - 30S OF THE XX CENTURY).

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To analyze the leading trends in sanitary and hygienic education of children and adults in Galicia during the late XIX - the 30s of the XX century and define opportunities to use this historical experience in the current context of the spread of COVID-19 virus in Ukraine. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: Chronological, historical, specific search, content-analysis- provide selection and analysis of the source base, allow to determine general trends, directions of development, achievements and gaps of sanitary and hygienic education of children and adults in Galicia in the late XIX - 30sof the XX century; extrapolation and actualization - focus on creative thinking, adaptation and use of this historical experience in today's conditions. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: Under the current conditions of the COVID-19 spread, analysis of this retro experience projects to develop a scientific concept of health education, which would outline theoretical approaches to studying this problem, creating a comprehensive state program aimed at preventing infectious diseases, restoration of gene elaboration of clear recommendations on observance of sanitary and hygienic norms and conditions established by quarantine zones, carrying out anti-epidemic measures at educational institutions and among the adult population, informing about prevention and peculiarities of the COVID-19 disease spread, etc.

THE HEALTH CULTURE OF FUTURE DOCTORS THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE HEALTH-PRESERVING COMPETENCE FORMATION.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To present the complex formation of all the outlined components and the interaction between them, it should be lead to the successful formation of a culture of health of future doctors. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: The diagnostic stage of the experimental study covered 450 students of four higher medical educational institutions: I. Horbachevsky TernopilState Medical University (150 students), Lviv National Medical University named after D. Halytsky (100 students); Bukovynian State Medical University (100 students), Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University (100 students), Ukraine. RESULTS: Results and conclusions: Analysis of the dynamics of changes in the formation of personal practical and personaldeveloping components of the future doctors' health culture from entry to final control allows us to conclude that the use of author's methods in preparing students gives better results than traditional training.

DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL STUDENTS CREATIVITY AS A PRIORITY OF MODERN HIGHER EDUCATION.

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To present an overview of the problem of creative skills development at the level of higher education, analyse the notions "creativity" and "creative skills", investigate the main conditions of the creative skills development in medical students of higher educational establishments in Ukraine and abroad. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: Experimental verification of the conditions of the medical students creativity development was conducted in the period from 2017 to 2019 academic years within two groups of students: Ukrainian students and foreign students. In the process of the study, the peculiarities of the students' creativity development were established through surveys and questionnaires. RESULTS: Results: On the basis of an overview of the problem of creative skills development within the context of modern education, the notions "creativity", "creativeness" have been analysed. The main strategies and methods aimed at the creative skills development in medical students have been investigated. A brief overview of historical development of the problem of creativity in pedagogy of higher education has been suggested. The given paper analyses the main directions of reforming the system of higher education, in the context of which the development of students' creativity takes place, as well as the methods and techniques aimed at developing the creative skills of the students. CONCLUSION: Conclusions: The problem of the development of person's creative abilities involves a number of logical steps: the definition of the essence of this concept, its significance in the process of human development, society's need in people with creative abilities, retrospective assessment of the problem, importance of educational systems, and the establishment of consistent patterns of the process.