REGULATORY AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING STANDARDISATION OF MEDICINES TO FUTURE MASTERS OF PHARMACY IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALISATION OF EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

The article substantiates that the strategic vector for ensuring the quality of educational services chosen in Ukraine under martial law has increased the need to update state and local regulations of the educational process, as well as to find effective methodological approaches to teaching higher education students, including the transformation of all teaching and learning materials into digital format and the creation of publicly available knowledge bases on their basis. Based on the analysis of national educational legislation, strategic priorities for the development of the healthcare sector, the article features the regulatory and methodological aspects of the implementation of educational initiatives aimed at improving the level of digital literacy of masters of pharmacy, the practical use of digital technologies in their educational and future professional activities, as well as amendments to educational standards and educational programs in terms of the list of general and special (professional, subject) competencies of the above-mentioned specialties. Generalisation of the content of local acts, websites of higher medical/pharmaceutical education institutions of Ukraine made it possible to identify the main innovations in the organisation of training of future masters of pharmacy, to illustrate these with examples of the introduction of digital technologies in the training of future masters of pharmacy, in particular the discipline «Standardisation of Medicines» at the Bogomolets National Medical University. The leading direction for improving the effectiveness of teaching standardisation of medicines to future masters of pharmacy in the context of digitalisation of higher education in Ukraine is identified, which is to harmonize the regulatory and methodological foundations of this process in accordance with the current and future (post-war reconstruction of the educational sphere) challenges of socio-political life of society, compliance with the security system, the provision of quality educational services in the context of the dynamic deployment of the electronic healthcare system, as well as the desire of government institutions and stakeholders to integrate with the European pharmaceutical market.