SPECIAL ASPECTS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY SPECIALISTS IN UKRAINE AT THE TURN OF THE XXI CENTURY

The paper analyzes the issues of modernization of higher education in Ukraine in the context of Bologna process. The authors present national trends in the development of vocational training of the pharmaceutical industry specialists in Ukraine at the turn of the XXI century and consider the issues of implementation of pharmaceutical university-wide informational and educational environment that will allow changing the educational process structure by creating a new training technology. The authors also consider the issues of reforming the content of vocational training of the pharmaceutical industry specialists at the beginning of the XXI century as well as the dynamics of vocational training of foreign citizens in higher medical (pharmaceutical) educational institutions of Ukraine during the period from 2006 to 2014.