Nikolaieva I. The Formation of Competence in Chemistry of Would-be Bachelors of Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Technology

The dissertation is dedicated to a topical problem of formation of competence in chemistry of would-be bachelors of medical diagnostics and treatment technology. The competence in chemistry in the context mentioned is interpreted as a dynamic combination of professionally-oriented students' knowledge, skills and values that defines their ability to effectively accomplish chemically-oriented research in diagnostics laboratories of different types. A list of outcomes of teaching chemistry courses has been formulated. The structure of the competence in chemistry of the mentioned category of specialists has been modeled. The model of the competence in chemistry formation has been scientifically substantiated as a combination of such units as: target, theory-and-methodology, content, process, and result-and-evaluation ones. The target unit defines aims and objectives of teaching students chemistry courses. The unit of theory-and-methodology includes methodological approaches and didactic principles that make up the basis of the process of students' competence in chemistry formation. The content unit reveals the content of compulsory courses "Medical chemistry" and "Analytical chemistry" as well as the author's integrated selective academic course "Chemistry (vocational orientation)". The process unit ensures the effective interaction of educational process participants by means of applying modern methods and means of teaching, as well as of key types of sessions in chemistry courses and forms of students' learning activity organization. The result-and-evaluation unit presupposes the application of criteria, indices, methods and means that enable the evaluation of the correlation between the outcomes obtained in the process of experimental teaching to the aim preset. The criteria have been defined (the professionally oriented knowledge level; the professionally oriented practical skills in chemistry level; the awareness of the importance of the chemical component of the preparation to the professional activity) and the indices (the corresponding coefficients) of the students' competence in chemistry levels (initial, intermediate, sufficient and high). The interdisciplinary connections between chemistry and medical courses have been traced and realized in the content, methods and means of teaching the former ones. The methodology of implementing the competence formation model of would-be bachelors of medical diagnostics and treatment technology has been elaborated. The pedagogical effectiveness of the model elaborated and of the methodology of its realization in higher medical educational institutions has been experimentally proved.