SYNERGY OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS: ATTITUDE OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS TO THE STUDY OF PHARMACOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR DETERMINING ITS EFFECTIVENESS

Abstract

The organization of the educational process at the Department of Pharmacology of the Bogomolets National Medical University is aimed at the formation of competencies among applicants for higher medical education, the acquisition of knowledge and skills in fundamental pharmacology, which is an integral aspect of the acquisition of clinical thinking in them, their further formation as future doctors, in particular military doctors, and pediatricians. The purpose of the study was to analyze the attitude of applicants for higher medical education to pharmacology as a fundamental biomedical discipline and to assess the effectiveness of the educational process at the Department of Pharmacology based on the results of feedback. Materials and methods of research. During the study, the authors resorted to the methods of questionnaires, mathematical analysis, descriptive statistics, and also used general scientific theoretical methods, such as the bibliographic method, methods of information synthesis, comparison and generalization. Students were surveyed by creating and distributing a Google form among them from May 27 to June 4, 2025 inclusive. A total of 378 respondents took part in the survey, among which 324 people were mastering the specialty 222 “Medicine” (147 students of the Medical Faculty No. 1, 135 students of the Medical Faculty No. 2 and 42 representatives of the Faculty of Doctors’ Training for the Armed Forces of Ukraine), 54 respondents were future pediatricians (Medical Faculty No. 3). Results. 266 students (70.4%) position pharmacology as an extremely important discipline, 109 respondents (28.8%) consider pharmacology important and another 3 people (0.8%) found it difficult to answer. In the context of specialties being mastered by students, among applicants for specialty 222 “Medicine”, 224 respondents (59.3%) emphasized the extreme importance of pharmacology as a discipline, 97 respondents (25.7%) consider pharmacology important, 3 more students found it difficult to answer (0.8%). The answers of applicants for specialty 228 “Pediatrics” were distributed as follows: 42 people (11.1%) considered pharmacology extremely important, and the rest of the students noted that pharmacology is important – 12 people (3.2%). Conclusions. The vast majority of applicants for higher medical education consider pharmacology to be extremely important or important (375 students – 99.2% of all respondents) discipline, which lays the foundation for the acquisition of the necessary competencies by a future doctor. Regular monitoring and independent assessment by students of the effectiveness of individual components of the educational process is an important tool that allows us to timely identify positive and negative trends, identify problematic aspects to ensure the proper quality of medical education.