History of Obtaining Higher Medical Education by Foreign Students in Ukraine (on Example of Polish Students)
History of Obtaining Higher Medical Education by Foreign Students in Ukraine (on Example of Polish Students)

Summary/Abstract: The dynamics of the phenomenon of obtaining higher medical education by foreign students inUkraine in the historical context, before the beginning of Ukraine’s independence, has been analyzed, the peculiarities and stages of development have been identified, the scale of the involvement of Polish students in the process of obtaining higher education in Ukraine has been specified.The characteristic of the dynamics of the process as a historical one in Ukraine is carried out against the backdrop of determining historical-political and socio-cultural changes. It is substantiated that the first stage – obtaining the higher medical education by foreign students at universities lasts from the middle of the XIXth century, during the period of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires. Foreign students, mostly subjected to other emperors of other countries, study at medical faculties of the Lviv, Kyiv and Novorossiysk universities. The second stage, the period betweenFirst and Second World War, there weren’t revealed the facts of the massive acquisition of medical education by foreign students in the medical institutes of the Ukrainian SSR. The third stage is molding (the middle of the 40’s – the end of the 50’s of the XXth century.). Students from European countries, including from the Polish People’s Republic, who studied in the Odessa and Kyiv medical institutions on the basis of international treaties, were the main subjects-obtainers of education in higher medical institutions of Ukraine. The subject-organizer of education – the government of the USSR, whose task was to establish and, if it’s possible, to head international cooperation in the field of education. The fourth stage – systemic, centralized, it lasted from the 60’s and ended in the early 90’s of the XXth century.

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