ESTABLISHMENT OF FUTURE DOCTORS’ PRIMARY SPECIALIZATION (SUBORDINATURA AND INTERNSHIP) IN 60-80S OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Introduction. The article is devoted to the introduction of higher medical institutions of residency and internship as a primary specialization, physicians in the 60-80 years of the last century in Ukraine. Purpose. The logic of the further study of the problem of introducing the primary specialization of doctors at the senior courses of medical institutes in the 60's and 80's of the 20th century demands to find out the reasons for the emergence of these new organizational forms in medical universities; to follow the stage-by-stage modification in their functioning and to establish interconnections between branches of subordination and internship and city and regional health institutions in the organization of internships for students; to find out the types of educational, educational and scientific activity of future physicians during their stay in the subordinate and internship; to establish positive facts of the beginning of the implementation of the principle of continuity of education in medical institutions of Ukraine in the analyzed period. Results. The implementation of the newest educational principles of teaching in modern universities, in particular the principle of the continuity education, sets the task of high school teachers to form a highly qualified, competent specialist in any field to general and medicine in particular. New approaches to the organization of the educational process in medical universities need to study the historical aspects of the emergence and spread of the above-mentioned principle of education in Ukrainian higher medical schools in the twentieth century this is due to the introduction into the medical educational and medical-preventive establishments of the primary specialization of future surgeons and internship doctors. Starting from the second half of the 1960's, the sixth year of medical institutions introduced a subordinate discipline – an intensive primary specialization of students from major clinical specialties. Upon completion of training at a medical university, the graduate must undergo an internship, that is, internship on the basis of those medical facilities where the junior doctor is sent to a permanent place of employment. Such a two-year specialization in medical universities lasted until the late 80's of the twentieth century. Conclusion. During the 60's and 80's of the twentieth century the main attention in higher medical educational institutions was focused on the comprehensive improvement of the quality of the training of future doctors, the practical orientation of the educational process, the strengthening of communication with the production, that is bases of primary specialization of graduates (subordinate-internship), continuous improvement of curricula, programs, textbooks and manuals, optimization of higher medical education of Ukraine. Further research needs a question to functioning of the institutions to primary specialization of doctors in the 90's of the twentieth century – beginning of the nineteenth century.