Fundamental training of doctors in additional vocational education

The paper presents methodology of doctors’ fundamental training in additional vocational education. The analysis of trends (humanization, standardization, informatization, integration, ecologization and fundamentalization) of doctors’ biological training development in continuous medical education has made it possible to determine how to improve physicians’ biological training in the aspect of solving the research problem – to determine methodology of doctors’ fundamental training in additional vocational education. The tendency of informatization of doctors’ biological training is determined by intensive development of biological sciences, as well as the widespread introduction of theoretical and technological approaches into medical practice. Integration as a trend determines modernization of goals, content, forms, methods of physicians’ biological training in the aspect of enhancing the interrelation and interdependent integrity of physicians’ biological and special training. The necessity of ecological regularities understanding and scientifically grounded attitude to nature requires systemic doctors’ biological training and dictates introducing a wide range of biological and ecological disciplines into doctors’ training and development program. These disciplines can help to understand the place of man in the environment and the biosphere as a whole from the standpoint of biocentric and polycentric approaches. Fundamentalization as a tendency for physicians’ biological training development requires training construction on the basis of a conceptual presentation of the educational content that contributes to the deepening of theoretical, scientific and vocational training of trainees and the expansion of their vocational training profile. Standardization defines requirements for physicians training level in biological disciplines (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, immunology, genetics, etc.) of all medical specialties as well as requirements for medical personnel ecological literacy increasing. The tendency of humanization manifests itself in openness, in understanding the social role of a person in improving doctors’ professional competencies, contributes to imparting a personal meaning to the acquired knowledge and determines the preservation of the individual identity.