THE RESULTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF HEALTH CARE SPECIALISTS ACCREDITATION IN PROVIDING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM WITH THE QUALIFIED MEDICAL STAFF

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of improving the professional readiness of medical personnel. Readers are provided with a brief overview of the results and prospects of the development of the accreditation of health professionals at the present time, and the possibility of interpreting the results of accreditation in order to improve the level of professional training of Russian health care specialists. The process of accreditation of health professionals is aimed at: 1) admission to the profession of only highly trained professionals, thus contributing to completing health care system by qualified personnel, thereby improving the quality of medical care in Russia; 2) forming of the data base for quality management in the system of continuing medical education, including information about the quality of education provided by medical universities in Russia. The purpose of accreditation is to improve the quality management, its analysis and monitoring of training. The profound analysis of the results of accreditation and their subsequent interpretation offer new opportunities to improve the professional readiness of health specialists at different levels of management. The article discusses the results of the analysis of accreditation of graduates from some regions of Russia in 2020 according to the experimental algorithm. Data from 13 regions of the Russian Federation were analyzed on parallel versions of tests (formed from a bank of tasks according to a uniform specification of content), each of which consisted of 60 tasks related to 5 working functions of professional standard 02.040 «Doctor - anesthesiologist reanimatologist». Average test results, their regional and job type distributions were estimated:. The analysis revealed differences in job acquisition, both regional and by skill type, allowing the model to be extended to larger samples to a more profound assess of the professional readiness of health professionals. The development of the process of health professionals’ accreditation should go beyond increasing the quantity of specialists and improving the quality of the tools to improve the objectivity and validity of the results of accreditation. The analysis of the accreditation data is promising to create a systemic approach to improving the professional readiness of specialists of both the level of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the level of the construction of individual routs for the development of specialists in the system of continuing medical education. The interpretation of the results of accreditation will be more informative provided with questionnaire data for the collection of contextual data affecting the quality of professional readiness of health professionals.