Evaluation of the effectiveness of educational institutions' efforts to develop continuing medical and pharmaceutical education programs is becoming increasingly important as the educational services market becomes saturated with educational products. The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis about the emerging surplus of training offers over potential demand as a problem of provider efficiency. An analysis of information on the activity of educational service providers and the demand for advanced training programs on the Portal of Continuous Medical and Pharmaceutical Education of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Portal) in the 1st quarter of 2022 was conducted. Due to a significant difference in activity indicators, the indicators of educational institutions with less than 100 and more than 100 additional professional advanced training programs (APP PC) on the Portal were analyzed separately. Key results: 1) a significant share of APP PC (13.1% for specialists with higher and 13.6% for specialists with secondary vocational education) do not have information on the cycles they conduct on the Portal and are thus not available to users; 2) 21.1%-25.9% of the DPP PCs available for selection do not have applications for training, i.e. they are not in demand by users; 3) a lower degree of deficit in the provision of cycles with applications was demonstrated by educational organizations with less than 100 DPP PCs included in the list of Portal programs.
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The problem of continuous pedagogical development of teachers of medical universities is considered. The aim of the study is to generalize the experience of a new approach to improving the pedagogical qualifications of teachers, which was implemented in the innovative project of the federal innovation platform of Volgograd State Medical University «System of continuous pedagogical development of teachers of a medical university (school of pedagogical excellence)». The paper uses methods of theoretical analysis, data comparison, grouping, generalization, as well as survey methods. The total sample was 1,084 teachers who studied at the School of pedagogical excellence in 2021. Pedagogical qualification improvement in the new format of the school of pedagogical excellence, integrates formal training in the course of pedagogy and educational technologies of additional professional education and informal pedagogical qualification improvement - the proactive participation of teachers in event-based education, in the work of the center for pedagogical innovations. It is proved that event-based education allows for the continuity of pedagogical training of teachers for higher medical school. The Federal Innovation Platform has become a space for dissemination of innovative pedagogical experience and for creativity: new educational projects have appeared at the university.
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The psychological well-being of postgraduate students not only influences the achievement of educational goals but also affects their decisions to continue an academic career, as well as the productivity of future researchers, teachers, and scientific supervisors. The present study aimed to assess the psychological well-being of postgraduate students. Materials and Methods: A remote survey was conducted with all postgraduate students of the Academy of Postgraduate Education of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia. Of the 42 respondents, 23 were men. The average age of respondents was 31.3±6.20 years, with men at 29.7±6.34 years and women at 33.2±5.56 years. The Ryff questionnaire, adapted by Lepeshinsky, was used for the survey. This questionnaire consists of 84 statements across nine scales: positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental control, personal growth, life goals, self-acceptance, affect balance, meaningfulness of life, and a person as an open system. The Likert scale was used for response options. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software, version 23, to identify relationships between psychological well-being indicators and scales with respondent characteristics and to compare median well-being indicators with normative values. Results: The median values of psychological well-being levels and scales were higher than normative values. Overall psychological well-being levels and scales were not dependent on age, gender, or year of study (p>0.05). However, psychological well-being indicators varied among postgraduate students of different scientific specialties (p=0.008), as did the scales of "environmental control" (p=0.016), "personal growth" (p=0.022), "life goals" (p=0.006), "affect balance" (p=0.045), "meaningfulness of life" (p=0.002), and "person as an open system" (p=0.002). Discussion: The high indicators of psychological well-being and the absence of a relationship between well-being and age, gender, and duration of study contradict the findings of external research. The observed relationship of psychological well-being is likely mediated and determined by socio-demographic personal characteristics of the respondents or the varying concentrations of proven well-being triggers in the environments of individual specialties. Conclusions: It is essential to monitor and compare the academic progress and psychological well-being of postgraduate students to develop strategies for maintaining psychological well-being during education.
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