Correlative evaluation of the educational load volume of the discipline "Physical education" in the process of specialists’ professional training of the direction 33.05.01 "Pharmacy"

The article presents the volumes of hours, dedicated to physical education, as well as their ratio to the cycles of academic disciplines and students’ practices, the analysis of working curricula of the Pyatigorsk Medical and Pharmaceutical Institute has been conducted. Furthermore the analysis has been conducted only of the educational direction 33.05.01 «Pharmacy». The curriculums of a specialist programme of pharmacists structurally reflect the composition of the State Standard in the part of integration of general, general professional and professional cycles with a differentiated volume (credits) of an educational load, approximately equal in a size for all five courses. Building logic of the educational content of future pharmacists at the Institute is in a gradual reduction of volume of academic lessons of humanitarian and social and economical cycles when going from course to course, as well as mathematical and natural-scientific cycles and a corresponding increase of professional cycle and on-thejob practices. The feature of the curriculum is the availability within the cycle of mathematical and natural-scientific, chemical and biomedical disciplines, which are directly related to pharmacists’ own professional activities, which are characterized by significant volumes, a number of control points and a great labor intensivity. From the position of organization of pedagogical influences with the purpose of formation of personal physical education of future pharmacists in the planning of this process it should be noted that the highest values of the volumes of the educational load are in semesters 4, 6, 9 and 10. The educational load of the discipline «Physical education » (72 hours of academic lessons and 328 hours of elec-tive, mandatory for elections disciplines) has been distributed nonuniformly with a significant decrease in the final course.