STUDENT INDEPENDENT WORK ORGANIZATION AS A COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE PHARMACISTS

Students of higher medical and pharmaceutical institutions should be able to perform their own work, including their internal capacity to adapt to their tasks. Accordingly, the success of the training of students and becoming a future specialist will depend on successful adaptation process. The wide range of functions and the growth of the role of independent work of students do not only lead to an increase in its volume, but also cause a change in the relationship between teacher and student as equal subjects of educational activity, accustom to independently solve the issues of organization, planning, control over educational activities and can teach a person to become more independent. In accordance with the Regulation "On the organization of the educational process in higher educational institutions," the student's independent work is the main means of student's learning of the material at the time, free of compulsory training. The purposeful set of actions of the student under the guidance of a teacher based on the use of means of maintenance of the educational process and involves independence – possibility to carry out selfdone work on the basis of formation of qualities of reflexive management, studying methods of management of educational and creative activity of students, acquiring practical skills for the analysis and evaluation of the quality of educational process according to the criteria of the European educational regulations. When planning independent work of students, it is necessary to take into account the list of abilities, skills and knowledge, which are provided by the educational qualification of a specialist. The term "independent work" is used by differ-ent authors in different meanings, depending on what content is put into the concept of "independent": - the student does work himself, without the teacher`s indirect participation; - the student independently thinks, deeply oriented in the educational material; - the student does an independent work under the supervision of a teacher. During such independent work, when the attendance of a class depends on the student's desire, there is a need for constant renewal of knowledge, self-improvement, self-discipline and self-control. Independent work of students in studying the curriculum disciplines in higher educational institutions with the use of information technologies should be orga-nized as a holistic system that consists of: • using educational sites; • working with electronic publications; • solving individual tasks; • the current certification through electronic testing, as one of the forms of organizing control over the independent work of students, because it is put on the final control together with the ed-ucational material. The organization of conducting independent and extra-curriculum work of students must be determined because of industry standards of education. The educational student`s process at the stage of studying basic pharmaceutical disciplines should be focused on the introduction of new techniques and innovative technologies. This will create conditions for the formation of the professional competence of the future pharmacist, the development of creative potential, and systemic independent work of students on mastering scientific knowledge.