Innovative approaches to formation of practical skills in medical students during teaching the basics of child pulmonology

The training of future doctors in the conditions of reforming the Health Care in Ukraine requires the introduction of new methods, information and communication technologies, modern pedagogical and scientific innovations in accordance with world standards in the educational process. The purpose of the work was to improve the educational process on the Department of Propedeutics of pediatric diseases while teaching the students the basics of pediatric pulmonology. The article describes the stages of conducting practical classes, describes the method of forming practical skills in students during teaching children's pulmonology. In order to improve the practical training of students at the department, simulation methods are actively used, which allow to master the technique of auscultation in children, to differentiate acoustic phenomena in different pathological conditions. During the curation, future doctors will consolidate practical skills in the examination of the patient, summarize the data obtained. Digital respiratory sonography allows us to analyze whether the findings of the research students on the acoustic picture, obtained while listening to the lungs with stethoscopes, coincide with the results of a computer analysis of pulmonary sounds. As the results show, students' acquisition of practical skills on virtual simulators contributes to a more successful mastering of methods of physical examination of the patient, correct assessment of a particular clinical situation. Combining traditional teaching methods with innovative methods contributes to improving the quality of students' education and training of a new generation of highly skilled health care workers. Bringing to the international standards the educational and methodological support of the educational process, on the one hand, will reduce the outflow of young people, who want to study outside Ukraine, on the other hand – will allow to attract foreign students to Ukrainian medical universitets, which can become an additional source of state income in the form of tuition fees, and also contribute to the inflow of labor into domestic medicin