Optimization of the educational process in student-dentists under the conditions of the Coronavirus pandemic

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic could not but make changes in the work of higher medical institutions in Ukraine. There was a need to search for new forms of education. Remote forms of acquiring knowledge are of great relevance these days. The purpose of distance learning is to ensure the availability and continuity of education, based on the possibility of advanced training directly at the place of residence or temporary stay of students. In the face of the pandemic, training for most of the country’s dental faculties has been shifted online. Despite the fact that medical education cannot be correspondence, it seems that the development of certain skills and abilities is possible in a remote form, which must be implemented in modern realities. Distance learning offers both a number of benefits and challenges for students and teachers. Among the advantages are a decrease in the spread of the virus among students, the absence of the need to use public transport, convenient planning of working hours, the general availability of education in electronic form, etc.