EXPERIENCE IN THE BRUNCH OF INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION ON THE EXAMPLE OF PHARMACOGNOSY AND MEDICAL BOTANY DEPARTMENT OF I. HORBACHEVSKY TERNOPIL NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Internationalization of higher education is one of the key factors of efficiency and competitiveness of a higher educational institution. The main forms of international cooperation through which the process of internationalization of education takes place are institutional partnership, integration of educational standards into curricula, mobility of educational programs, professional mobility of teachers and academic mobility of students. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University Ministry of Health of Ukraine is making a lot of efforts on the way to internationalization and setting a number of strategic tasks. The aim was to study the process of internationalization in practice on the example of the Department of Pharmacognosy and Medical Botany of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University Ministry of Health of Ukraine. Employees of the department participate in international projects, report at international conferences, symposia, congresses and visit foreign countries for the purpose of improving their qualifications. They publish the results of their scientific research and development in rated international publications. These artic­les are indexed in various scientometric databases, including Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, Index Copernicus and others. Foreign students study at the department and are trained to work abroad as highly qualified specialists. Employees of the department organize All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conferences with international participation “Chemistry of natural compounds”. They also participated in the 18th Hellenic Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (Greece) and the international conference “Contemporary Pharmacy: Issues Challenges and Expectations 2022”. Every year the department revises and modernizes educational programs and tasks, adding to them the information that was “gathered” in the framework of the exchange of experience with colleagues from other countries of the world. The result of this is the training of highly qualified, competitive specialists. Thus, the internationalization of higher medical education is an important issue of the integration of Ukrainian higher education institutions into the world educational and scientific environment.