Analysis of quality criteria of educational services in conditions of doctors’ postgraduate education system reform

Abstract

Objective of the study: in the conditions of new forms of education implementation in the frame of the continuous postgraduate education to analyse necessity for the new forms of courses and propose optimal criteria for educational methods assessment. Materials and methods: the object of the current study are doctors, participating in trainings in the Department of Public Health, Economics and Management of Health Care System. During the study two questionnaires were used: the first for assessment of the methods and quality of teaching process, the second for choosing priority forms of training, frequency and duration of training. Statistical processing of the results is done by the traditional methods of variational statistics. While designing the study the key point was to analyse priority choice of the doctors-trainees in terms of programs and forms of training in the conditions of the reforms of the whole system of postgraduate education and implementation of the continuous postgraduate education. Furthermore, we asked participants about preferences of the training process forms, considering short 36-hours courses, their frequency and availability of the distant learning elements in the annual course of continuous education. In the presented study methodological approaches on participants necessities in the elements of educational services, main criteria of improvement of organisational forms of postgraduate medical education in the modern conditions of medical postgraduate and additional professional education are defined. Conclusions: Using of visual aids and other means of training should be widely used during lecturing in the educational process. Questioned participants highly scored trainings with the methods of distant learning and practical trainings in the medical institutions. It proves their psychological and professional readiness for wide implementation of these forms in the system of continues postgraduate education.