Some trends in statistics teaching of postgraduate students in higher medical school
Purpose. The paper examines the training process in applied statistics of medical postgraduate students.Materials and methods. The main trends and issues arising in the course of teaching were revealed basing on the analysis of many years of teaching experience of more than seven hundred postgraduate students.Results. The following issues were discussed: the effect of the changed data processing technology on postgraduate student education, the tasks that postgraduate students should solve and factors complicating their training.Conclusion. The proposed solution to current problems in the teaching of applied medical statistics related to the insufficient number of hours of training in the discipline, a low initial level of mathematical knowledge of postgraduate students, lies in adjusting content and methodological level of teaching and the orientation on the subsequent independent work of postgraduate students.