Modern approaches to optimization of educational process in the medical biology, pharmakognosy and botany department of the State Institution “Dnipropetrovsk Medical academy of Health Ministry of Ukraine”

The article shows methodical methods and organizational forms of the educational process, which are used in the educational and scientific process during the teaching of disciplines to students of such specialities as “Pharmacy” and “Medicine”. The article describes the research activities of students, which makes it possible to identify creative abilities and readiness for self-realization; independent work, which is an essential part of the educational process; participation in the training and field practice, which forms general cultural and professional competences in the specialist’s professional activities, case study, which actualizes students a certain set of knowledge acquired from other academic disciplines, helps to overcome stereotypes of thinking