FEATURES OF THE PROCESS OF TRAINING IN EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE AT THE PRESENT STAGE. PART 2. REACTION OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO DISTANCE LEARNING.

Higher education is one of the areas most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and martial law. Against the backdrop of severe restrictions, universities faced the issue of the existing opportunities for the implementation of educational programs, the need to change the format of the educational process with the transition mainly to electronic educational technologies. Under these conditions, it was necessary to consolidate all the forces and resources of the university community. The governments of many countries have recognized the need to provide infrastructural and technological support to educational institutions. Thanks to the institutional support of the state and relevant ministries, universities managed to reduce financial losses and implement initiatives for continuous education. These measures have contributed to the sustainability of universities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions all over the world have adopted different approaches and made significant changes to the education system itself in accordance with their resources and capabilities.

FEATURES OF THE PROCESS OF TRAINING IN EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE AT THE PRESENT STAGE. PART І. ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS AND UNIVERSITY TEACHERS TOWARDS DISTANCE LEARNING.

The review article reflects the results of the assessment of data from individual research papers and personal observations, as well as data from domestic and foreign literature, as well as own opinion about the features of the training process in educational medical institutions of Ukraine at the present stage. First, the COVID-19 pandemic, and then martial law in the state, caused distance learning to become an inseparable component of modern education and contrib¬uting to the effective implementation of the educational process in general and the achievement of high quality results in medical educational institutions in particular. For the successful implementation of the e-learning system, all participants in the educational process need the help and assistance of special technical support services. Therefore, universities need to pay more attention to improving technical support of platforms and academic interaction between teachers and students [1]. Universities that have been able to provide such support have avoided many problems in the transition to distance learning. Practical and clinical skills are essential in the field of medicine, and the lack of opportunities to master and practice these skills could potentially lead to a generation of insecure doctors with limited experience of meeting and examining real patients [2]. Therefore, the task of teachers at the present stage is to do everything possible to prepare competent specialists adapted to the realities of life.