PERSPECTIVES OF USING THE MOODLE DISTANCE LEARNING SYSTEM IN TRAINING HIGH-QUALIFIED MEDICAL PERSONNEL

Abstract

The training of high-qualified medical personnel (nurses) with higher education should meet the criteria of modern health care development. We should use the information technology in the training of nurses. Moodle, as a learning management system, can be successfully applied, because it gives not only mastering the curriculum of a certain discipline (module), but also helps to master certain professional competences of the graduate. The purpose of this work is studying the perspectives of using Moodle for training nurses with higher education with reference to General Pathology. The paper shows results of practical using of this distance learning system by students of Nursing Department at the Medical Institute of North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov. Questioning helped find out strengths and weaknesses of using Moodle for both students and teachers. Using it in teaching General Pathology can be considered as an auxiliary educational resource, one of the types of implementation and activation of independent work, and as an instrument for acquiring knowledge and experience in working with information technologies. The problem of training high-qualified medical personnel (nurses) with higher education at the present stage is very important, therefore, it is necessary to continue searching for the most acceptable and improved teaching methods in the Higher School using interactive educational resources.