The relevance of the applying and development of additional teaching programs at the morphological departments of medical universities

Traditions in the education of any country have always been the basis for building a national educational system, since only folk traditions accepted in society and tested by life are axiomatic. The need to meet the current and future needs of society, the economy, and the labor market forces the departments of medical universities to seriously transform teaching programs, technologies, and educational policy in general to meet the current and dynamically changing demands of society. This article aims to summarize the experience of creating, implementing and developing additional teaching programs at the morphological departments of medical universities in Russia and neighboring countries. As materials for the study, the content of the reports of the interregional workshop «Relevance of the implementation of additional teaching programs in anatomical departments» within the framework of the XII National Congress with international participation «Ecology and human health in the North» (December 2, 2021, Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Analysis of the materials presented at the workshop showed that all additional teaching programs implemented at the departments or on the scale of the university can be implemented at the pre-university stage, at the level of all specialist courses, residency in various clinical specialties and advanced training in the system of continuing medical education. In the conditions of growing competition in the market of educational services, the search for sources of additional funding, medical universities are actively transforming, striving to meet the needs of specialists of all levels of training. forgings. Under these conditions, the classical departments of fundamental medical education are faced with the urgent task of finding new directions for increasing effective activity, including full-scale participation in the implementation of various levels of additional teaching programs, including undergraduate and postgraduate levels. At the same time, the introduction of new teaching programs and forms of education should not destroy the classical methods and approaches, the effectiveness of which has been tested by time, primarily with the use of classical anatomical preparations and technologies.