[Qualification characteristics of specialists--graduates of medical and pharmaceutical institutes].

The development of medical education is associated with scientific elaboration of a system of periodically renewed requirements for specialists training quality, introduction of new methods and means for objective assessment of their professional competence. The present dectarative, non-constructive and non-classifying nature of qualification characteristics for graduates of medical and pharmaceutical institutes necessitated the carrying out of investigations aimed at the elaboration of a new system of qualification characteristics capable to fulfill the function of scientifically substantiated quality standards of higher medical education for every specialty. The paper describes the evolution of methodological approaches to the making of these documents, considers their new structural peculiarities, provides the technology of their projecting, determines their place in the target system of continuous medical education.

[Ways of developing economy-related thinking in future physicians at medical institutes].

Highlighted are the problems of economic education of medical students. For the organization of such training it is proposed to introduce a programme of continuous education of medical students in health care economics carried out by the 1st I. M.