The Expediency of Including an Individual Scientific Work as a Mandatory Component in the Educational and Professional Program of Medicine

Among the tasks of the "Concept of Sustainable Development", it is worth highlighting tasks 3 and 4: "Good health and well-being" and "Quality education". In this way, the training of students under the educational and professional program "Medicine" at the Poltava State Medical University meets two tasks from the "Concept of Sustainable Development". Modern specialists of the medical profile are in the conditions of the need to use a scientific approach and elements of critical thinking in their professional activities. At this stage, the educational and professional program "Medicine", which provides for the training of students at the Poltava State Medical University, does not include educational components that provide students with competencies related to scientific activity (scientific writing, critical analysis of literary sources, methods of scientific research). The purpose of this work is to justify the feasibility of including the mandatory component "Scientific training" developed on the basis of the mandatory component "Pathophysiology" in the educational and professional program "Medicine" at the Poltava State Medical University. The article uses general scientific theoretical research methods such as: analysis, synthesis, comparison of concepts, abstraction and generalization. We offer the following structure of the compulsory component "Scientific training", which consists of the following modules: Module 1 "Modeling of typical pathological processes in various organs and systems", Module 2 "Methods for the study of pathological changes in organs and systems", Module 3 "Principles of pathogenetic correction of typical pathological processes" and Module 4 "Methodical approach to the analysis of obtained experimental results". The total number of credits provided for studying the compulsory component "Scientific training" is 16 credits in accordance with the European credit transfer system. Approximately 2/3 of the hours provided for the study of the mandatory component "Scientific training" are planned to be used for independent work by students of higher education. Such a number of hours for independent work is argued by the need to write an individual research paper, which is an analogue of a master's thesis in other specialties. Modernization of the educational and professional program "Medicine" by including the mandatory component "Scientific training" is a promising way of improving the quality of education for students of the II (master's) level studying in the specialty 222 "Medicine".