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Introduction. One of the trends in the development of higher medical (pharmaceutical) education in Ukraine is the transition from the traditional model of education to a student-centred educational process. Student-centred learning is the main principle of improving the quality of education, which involves the active position of students in the educational process, the acquisition of the necessary competencies during their studies, responsibility for their own learning activities aimed at achieving the set goals and obtaining the planned result 1. Ukrainian educational law defines the right of higher education students to an individual educational path, which is implemented, in particular, through the free choice of academic disciplines and their level of complexity 2, 3. Disciplines of free choice or elective disciplines allow higher education students to deepen their knowledge of disciplines or components of disciplines that are not included in the course of study of normative disciplines, to acquire additional general and professional knowledge, in particular within the specialty or within a related specialty; allow specialisation within the basic specialty to form the competencies of higher education students in accordance with the requirements of the labour market 4.
Nizhenkovska et al. (Fri,) studied this question.