[Methodological approaches to upgrading public health professionals training competency-based model in Kkraine]

Introduction: Training programs for workforce in health area considered as a topical issue and regulates by numerous international and national standards and guidance. In public health system development circumstances the issue of enhance competences for doctors becomes particularly important. Modern achievements of andragogy, sociology and psychology can greatly improve the educational processes in training personnel for public health needs. The aim: to rationalize methodological approaches for efficiency improvement of the competency model for training public health experts in a reforming environment of the healthcare service in Ukraine.

Materials and methods: semantic, systemic and biostatistical analyses, modelling peer review.

Results: improvement in medical competency becomes increasingly relevant under the developing public health sector. The postgraduate training model is reviewed for improvement in its efficiency. Driving forces, analyzed and identified for the model establishment, are educational process regulation, logistics and staffing development status, opportunity to consider needs of educational service consumers. Possibilities of improving the postgraduate educational process are rationalized by the survey among physicians and heads of preventive medicine as an example, principal organizational forms and methods are defined as well.

Conclusions: The provision of education demands further improvement and development in a reforming and more competitive environment. Curriculums, programmes and their organizational forms planning, use of a variety of pedagogical tools are unachievable without considering attitudes of educational service consumers ( by peer review), that provides higher efficiency and quality of educational activities aiming for improvement in competency of public health experts. Improving the regulation, professionalization of scholars, by means of present-day advances in information technology, turn crucial elements of the competency model of postgraduate education.