E-Learning Technologies in Continuing Medical Education of Family Doctors in Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities

Continuing medical education faces new challenges and the need for improvement. The active development of technology since the middle of the 20th century has changed the requirements for education in view of the demand for knowledge-intensive specialties. Analysis of the state of scientific elaboration of the problem of e-learning in Ukraine and the experience of its implementation in the practice of higher education showed that despite some achievements, this pedagogical problem needs further research. E-learning improves postgraduate training of doctors. The main purpose of teaching in postgraduate education is to achieve high-quality practical training based on knowledge, skills and abilities in traditional and modern educational technologies. E-learning is a promising form of pedagogical technologies in the field of medical education, as it is more flexible and corresponds to modern realities of society. The implementation of various online resources in the training of health professionals in quarantine activities related to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as during the war, highlights the problem of information literacy and the use of information technology among physicians of all ages and psychotypes, and shows that the latest resources of telecommunications and computers. computer technologies should be widely implemented in all areas of health care. [For the full proceedings, see ED654100.]