[Methodological bases for the training of a therapist in cardiology in light of physician certification]

In the course of theoretical education, one of the most important forms is that of lectures, particularly generalizing and problem-solving ones. Practical education (two thirds of the working time) will include the following: keeping patients under observation; practical studies; clinical and clinicoanatomical conferences; professor's rounds; going on duty by departments; participation in conducting and mastering the instrumental methods of investigation. The role of the audience at the lectures is an active one, that of the teacher is to direct and correct. Special attention is payed to individual work of a physician. All of the aforementioned kinds of work will, we believe, help the physician in making progress, upgrading his clinical mentality, attaining knowledge, skills, deontological principles in work. Use of test questions in cardiology approved by Ministry of Health of Ukraine as a national programme for certification of physicians together with the traditional methods of teaching will improve the quality of physician training.