Practice

Due to the health care reform in our country, with the opening of new branches of medicine, namely palliative medical care (PMC), the process of training mid-level professionals has acquired qualitatively new characteristics. The author’s project of integrative course “Stomatherapy Basics” is presented in this article. The article presents the project which is aimed to improve the professional skills of future nurses in palliative care of patients with colorectal cancer. The project was carried out at Kaluga Basic Medical College (during the study of MP 02. MPK 02.01 SECTION 3 “Nursing Care in Surgery”).

Introduction. Novel environment of society evolution demands diversification of education and training of those who will work in the future. In this regard, blended learning is seen to be one of major trends of the prospective education. Aim. To present a universal algorithm of the development of teacher support and learning materials for studying English in the first year of CTE or TVET exploiting the advantages of Blended Learning (BL). Results. The authorial methodology of development of support materials on one of the most actual topics “World of modern occupations” is capable of facilitating the solution of urgent tasks that the Russian educational system faces: turning a student into an active participant of educational process; individualisation and differentiation of the latter in accordance with the student’s needs; wider utilisation of ICT. Practical significance. The suggested methodology in the form of the stepwise development of main and additional actions allows a TVET teacher to independently and skillfully create innovative support materials on any topic in English that is a general subject of the first year of studying at a college. Funding: The article is performed within State assignment No. 073-00058-22-04 dd. 8th April, 2022 on subject “Scientific support of blended learning at secondary education establishments”.

Introduction. The article studies the possibilities of using an interdisciplinary approach under the process of professional and general disciplines content integration in the higher education system in the context of foreign language learning. Aim. To develop and to test a professionally-oriented case study using digital tools for teaching a foreign language as one of the ways of implementing an interdisciplinary approach in the educational process of university. Methods. In order to reaffirm the effectiveness of the interdisciplinary case study, a pedagogical experiment was conducted, which included a survey on the methods of classes and their impact on the level of students' motivation to form different blocks of competencies. Results. It was found that the application of the professionally-oriented case study increases students’ motivation, helps to develop linguistic, communicative, and professional competencies, skills of using digital technologies in professional activities when solving problems of interdisciplinary nature. In addition, the authors identified the problems that complicated the development of interdisciplinary educational environment at the university. Among them the lack of opportunities for integrating the content of different disciplines, presence of organisational barriers to the formation of interdisciplinary groups, weak opportunities for implementing individual educational trajectory, lack of teachers possessing the skills required to work with interdisciplinary groups, weak continuity of interdisciplinary programmes at higher education levels. Practical significance. A professionally-oriented case study with the employment of digital tools, developed at the nexus of general and professional disciplines can be used to create an interdisciplinary environment in the context of digitalisation in modern higher education.