ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND FEATURES OF THE APPLICATION OF PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE DENTISTS

The implementation of the competence approach in the educational process and ensuring the formation of professional literacy of future dentists is the highest indicator of the quality of the education received. Today's strict requirements require higher education institutions to achieve a qualitatively new level of presentation of educational material, therefore, in addition to traditional ones, modern pedagogical technologies are widely used. The purpose of the study was to analyze the psychological and pedagogical, methodological literature and to determine the essential characteristics of pedagogical technologies. Research material and methods. Analysis of psychological and pedagogical, methodical literature, materials of educational and methodical conferences, methodical work of the department. Theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison, systematization, pedagogical modeling, theoretical forecasting) were applied to achieve the goal, clarify the essence and features of the use of modern pedagogical technologies in the educational process. The level of an educational institution is determined by the quality of innovative technologies that are effectively used in it. For the development of higher medical education, it is advisable to introduce and integrate into the educational process all the pedagogical technologies analyzed above, and the effectiveness of their application depends on the interaction of factors that ensure the pedagogical process: competent teachers who possess pedagogical technologies at a high level and constantly improve their professional level; motivation and sufficient level of basic training of future medical specialists; proper organizational and methodical support of the educational process; active implementation of modern pedagogical technologies; effective combination of all known types and levels of pedagogical technologies.