HIGHER MEDICAL EDUCATION ABROAD IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF UKRAINIAN PEDAGOGICAL COMPARATIVE STUDIES

The relevance of this research is driven by the need for a comprehensive understanding of foreign experiences in the functioning of national higher medical education systems within the context of Ukraine's complex and contradictory processes of integration into the European Higher Education Area. The article aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the historiography of Ukrainian pedagogical comparative studies on the development of higher medical education in foreign countries to identify trends, achievements, gaps, and prospects for studying this issue. The research methods include search-heuristic, analysis and synthesis, historiographic, hermeneutic, comparative, and phenomenological. As a result of search-heuristic and scientific research work, about 30 dissertations, monographs, and educational manuals on the issue were identified and analyzed. Based on this, their narrow country-specific focus and the similarity in the formulation of the research subject were identified, as well as the directions, trends, and features of research on the development of higher medical education abroad were outlined. It was shown that the historiography of domestic pedagogical comparative studies on this issue has a pronounced interdisciplinary profile-oriented character. Most of the authors involved in its formation, particularly degree candidates, were mainly professional medics, with their scientific supervisors and consultants being experienced scientist-pedagogues. When studying the body of work on the development of higher medical education abroad, it was found that a significant portion of the monographs, articles, and theses of scientific conferences dedicated to it were prepared based on dissertation materials. Therefore, the focus was on analyzing dissertations, as well as monographs and articles containing original scientific knowledge. The main vector of research related to the training of doctors in specialized higher education institutions in foreign countries was determined. Common and distinctive features of representative dissertations on its development in the USA and certain European countries (Great Britain, Poland, Germany, etc.), as well as on the development of continuous medical education abroad, the establishment of nursing education abroad, the formation of foreign systems of professional training for veterinary doctors, and foreign experience in the organization of military medical education were analyzed.