«Krok-1. Medicine» in Bogomolets National Medical University as Education Indicator

Abstract

The quality assurance system implemented for higher medical education in Ukraine at the sectoral level includesthe ranking of higher medical institutions and national licensed integrated examinations (hereinafter - LIE), which have been implemented since 1998. The LIE system is a set of tools for standardized diagnostics of the level of professional competence as part of the state certification of students majoring in "Medicine", "Stomatology" and "Pharmacy" in higher education, regardless of their subordination. The purpose of the licensed integrated exam is to establish compliance with the level of professional competence of the graduate with the minimum required level by the requirements of the State Standards of Higher Education. Professional competence is diagnosed as the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of fundamental medical disciplines. The study is devoted to analysis of students’ readiness to the licensing integrated examination “Krok-1. Medicine” in Ukraine 2019 year. The scores of O. O. Bogomolets National Medical University (hereinafter - NMU) students were examined in more details in comparison to the results of students from other high medical schools of Ukraine. The results of licensing integrated examination “Krok-1. Medicine” were compared for students of medical #1-4 faculties, the medicalpsychological faculty and faculty for training doctors for the armed forces of Ukraine. The results of students were analyzed by subtests, which are included to licensing integrated examination “Krok-1. Medicine”. It was shown that NMU 4.8% generally gives better than the average performance indicator in Ukraine among all medical universities. Conducting an analysis of the success of the medical faculties of NMU, it can be noted that the medical #1 and #2 faculties showed the highest results: 78.7% and 78.3% respectively.