Professional training of pharmaceutical industry experts in Ukraine (XX – beginning of XXI century): systematic analysis of the tendencies

Abstract

The article analyzes the state of research of the problem of professional training of specialists in the pharmaceutical industry in the pedagogical theory and practice of higher medical (pharmaceutical) educational institutions. The criteria of comparison of development in different periods of professional training of experts of the pharmaceutical industry in Ukraine, which formed the basis of analysis of each historical period, have been determined. Indicators revealing the content of each criterion have been singled out. In the development of professional training of specialists in the pharmaceutical industry in Ukraine from 1921 to 2017, five periods have been determined on the basis of analysis of archival sources and scientific and methodological literature. The basis of their division is the criterion of changes in the organizational and institutional development of the professional training of specialists in the pharmaceutical industry in the context of socio-political changes, the conditions of economic development of education in general and pharmaceutical education, in particular. A systematic analysis of the tendencies of the transformation of the professional training of specialists in the pharmaceutical industry in Ukraine during the twentieth century has been carried out, up to the year 2017, among which general, special, specific tendencies have been singled out. The general tendencies of professional training of specialists of the pharmaceutical industry in Ukraine for all historical periods havebeen singled out: gender equality of future specialists; the independence from ethnic origin, religion inobtainingthe education; increasing popularity of the profession of a pharmacist, pharmacist, master of pharmacy; professional training of specialists in the pharmaceutical industry in different types of schools; the increase in the number of different types of schools for the professional training of specialists in the pharmaceutical industry; the improvement of methods and organizational forms of professional training of specialists in the pharmaceutical industry; practical direction of the educational process of professional graduate training of specialists in the pharmaceutical industry.The modern tendencies (2010 – 2017 years) of professional training of specialists of the pharmaceutical industry in Ukraine have been studied.