INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED STEM EDUCATION CURRICULA FOR SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL WORKERS

Abstract

The article describes the process of developing integrated STEM education curricula for scientific and pedagogical staff of medical universities. The authors focus on the challenges facing postgraduate medical education in Ukraine: the acute need for scientific and pedagogical workers who can freely and expediently integrate the knowledge, skills acquired in the process of studying individual disciplines, apply them in practice and teach students (interns); the need to train competitive personnel capable of generating new ideas, developing innovative products. Appealing to the results of questionnaires and interviews of trainees of advanced training courses at the O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University, which were conducted in 2023 and covered 240 respondents, the authors state an urgent need to develop and implement integrated programs of advanced training courses where trainees would acquire the knowledge and ability to determine the goal, predict the results of the introduction of STEM-education technologies in the study of a specific educational course, would master the methods and techniques of integrating knowledge and skills in order to achieve the defined goal. The study provides practical recommendations for the development and implementation of integrated STEM education curricula scientific and pedagogical staff of medical universities. These recommendations can be useful for teachers, methodologists and other professionals involved in the development and implementation of educational programs. The Conclusions emphasize the importance of integrated educational programs in the formation of a holistic and systematic understanding of the connections between different academic disciplines, which will help to more effectively use knowledge and skills in practice when solving various problems, develop critical thinking, creativity.