[RATING EVALUATION OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF MEDICAL UNIVERSITIES AS A TOOL TO STIMULATE ENTRANCE IN GLOBAL...

The inaccessibility of global university ratings for national universities is an urgent problem for many developing countries, including the Republic of Kazakhstan. This forces us to look for effective approaches that encourage national universities to increase their competitiveness and strive to enter global university rankings. Since one of the key components of global ratings is educational activity and the quality of the health personnel training is of particular value to the national health system, the aim of our study was to develop a national rating system for the educational activities of medical universities and evaluate its application in the national health system. The developed methodology for the rating assessment of the educational activities of medical universities included an assessment of universities according to 4 indicators (Quality of preparation for medical education programs, Demand for graduates, Internationalization of medical education, Level of faculty). In the framework of this study, we evaluated 12 medical universities of Kazakhstan according to the results of educational activities for the 2018-2019 academic year. The results of our study showed the possibility of practical use of the developed system of rating assessment of the educational activities of medical universities as a tool to stimulate entry into global rankings and improve the quality of health personnel training. According to the results of the correlation analysis revealed that the quality of the medical education program depends directly on the further employment of graduates of universities and their admission to further training levels. At the same time, the quality of training in medical education programs directly depends on the internationalization of medical education and the level of faculty.