Research of Ukrainian scientists on the development of national medical education systems: A meta-analysis

Aim: To carry out a holistic structured reconstruction of the Ukrainian scientific discourse of the 1990s and the first quarter of the XXI century on the development of medical education in foreign countries on the basis of the developed meta-analysis programme.

Materials and Methods: the developed meta-analysis programme integrates the general meta-analysis methodology and methods of monographic and relevant analysis, discourse analysis, content analysis, historiographic, paradigmatic, and phenomenological analysis. These tools have been used to analyse three samples of scientific papers on the development of national medical education systems that appeared in Ukraine in the 1990s and the first quarter of the twenty-first century: the general population (the total number of papers is about 1450); a sample population (380), and a representative sample (70). 20 bibliographic indexes were processed to determine the general population (GP - total number) of scientific papers published in 1991-2024. A search was conducted via the Google engine using a combination of three groups of keywords that denoted: a) the type of publication (monograph, dissertation, article); b) the subject of the study (development of medical education abroad; training of doctors/nurses abroad, etc.);c) a list of countries and regions.

Conclusions: the results of the study showed that the historiography of the problem mentioned above has a pronounced interdisciplinary, multi-level, specialityoriented character.The analysis of the dynamics of scientific knowledge accumulation has shown that the researchers have moved away from studying foreign experience of vocational training of healthcare professionals through the prism of its use in Ukraine under the influence of European integration processes and have begun to study national medical education systems as a separate subject. The focus of scientists' attention was revealed to be drawn to the study of trends in the development of national medical education systems, related to decentralisation of management, strengthening of university autonomy, requirements for the selection of applicants, etc.