Features of professional work of doctors oblige to apply by their preparation objective and informative methods of an estimation of knowledge and abilities. It is connected with the necessity of mastering by medical students at a level of judgment of great volume of the material making system of theoretical knowledge, and putting a basis for formation of practical skills. This feature of preparation of the future doctor also has obliged the Ministry of public health of Ukraine to enter into higher education system the state license examination”Krok-1. General medical training”.
Scientific researches testify that testing for the purpose of examination of the student can be considered as a method of estimation which answers the basic methodical criteria of quality and provides objectivity of process of training. Simultaneously testing – a data processing method about educational activity and their interpretation. This question is especially important, as, an estimation of the knowledge of the student according to the credit-rating-modular system should be standardized and unified enough.
External estimation of the quality of preparation of medical students on fundamental biomedical sciences is carried out by the Testing Center at ÌPH Ukraine and Krok-1 is spent in the form of the licensed examination”. The general medical training ”Medical microbiology, immunology and virology” – one of fundamental disciplines. The control of results of training of students strengthens internal motivation of teachers of each fundamental discipline to quality warranting.
Training, gives the chance to the teacher to reveal weak places in preparation of the expert, and – it is better for the student to understand, what themes demand completion.
The manual contains tests on microbiology (section ”Intestinal bacterial infections”), received from a database of the Center of testing of the professional competence of experts at the Ministry of public health of Ukraine for higher educational institutions ²²² - ²V levels of accreditation and tests from booklets for previous years.
In the grant tests are grouped according to the basic intestinal infections, which students study on a practical training on private microbiology: causative agents of Escherichiosis, Shigellosis, Typhoid fever and Salmonellosis, Cholera, Campilobacteriosis and Helicobacteriosis, Botulism and Food intoxications. Each test contains only one correct or best answer which to the student is necessary to choose. The tests collected in the grant, will give the chance to the student to be prepared for delivery of license examination by ”Krok-1. General medical training”, since, the booklet which is received annually by the student for the examination, contains certain percent of tests from previous years. Also these tests will give the chance to the student to be prepared for examination on a practical training, the thematic module ”Intestinal bacterial infections” and the Module ²². ”Special microbiology”.
Today it is possible to ascertain that delivery by the student of the licensed examination ”Krok-1. General medical training” gives powerful motivation of studying of the discipline ”Microbiology, immunology and virology”.