METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCHING THE PROBLEM OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the methodological basis for researching the problem of development of pharmaceutical education in Ukraine in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, which is revealed at the philosophical, general scientific and specific scientific levels.
At the philosophical level (general principles of cognition and categorical composition of science in general), axiological, anthropological, and systemic approaches provide an opportunity to determine the philosophical foundations of the unity of the theory and practice of pharmaceutical education.
At the level of general scientific methodology (key theoretical provisions, approaches used in most scientific disciplines) - synergistic, cultural, activity, competence, innovative, interdisciplinary, historical approaches allow to consider the education, research and professional activity of pharmacists as an interdisciplinary and complex process.
At the level of specific scientific methodology - contextual (focuses training on the real conditions of professional activity of pharmacists), pharmaceutical (involves the study of the specifics of training specialists in the field of pharmacy), pedagogical (focuses on the analysis of the content component of training future pharmacists), medical and biological (focuses on the integration of medical and biological disciplines into the structure of pharmaceutical education), economic (includes research on the effectiveness of financing pharmaceutical education), legal (involves the analysis of regulatory requirements).
It is concluded that the use of the above methodological approaches will help to consider at the theoretical and practical level and objectively reproduce and outline the conceptual vectors of the problem of development of pharmaceutical education in Ukraine.