Организация педиатрической помощи населению Volosovets O.1 Boiarska L.6 , Piatnytskyi Yu.1 , Pavlyk O.3 1 Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2 P. L. Shupyk National Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Kyiv, Ukraine 3 O. O. Bohomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine 4 Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of the MoH of Ukraine, Dniprо, Ukraine 5 Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy, Poltava, Ukraine Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Волосовец А.П.1 6 , Пятницкий Ю.С.1 Крючко Т.А.5 , Боярская Л.Н.6 Киев, Украина 3 Украина 5 , Бекетова Г.В.2 , Павлык Е.В.3 1 Министерство здравоохранения Украины, Киев, Украина 2 Национальная медицинская академия последипломного образования имени П. <...> Богомольца, Киев, Украина 4 Днепропетровская медицинская академия Министерства здравоохранения Украины, Днепр, Украинская медицинская стоматологическая академия, Полтава, Украина 6 Запорожский государственный медицинский университет, Запорожье, Украина Opportunities of pediatric education in Ukraine and ways of adaptation to European Union Возможности педиатрического образования в Украине и пути адаптации в Европейский союз ______________________ Abstract __________________________________________________________________________ In the article “Opportunities of pediatric education in Ukraine and ways of adaptation to European Union” by O.P. Volosovets, Yu. <...> Abaturov, T.O. Kriuchko, L.M. Boiarska, O.V. Pavlyk, there are presented the data on pediatric educational system in Ukraine. <...> Today Ukraine has a staged system of training of pediatricians, which starts from a six-year pre-degree education of the students on the specialty “Pediatrics”, further two-year internship with certifi cation as a medical professional, which gives the right for medical practice at the territory of Ukraine. <...> Education of more than 5 thousand future pediatricians is conducted in 11 medical universities and 2 medical academies. <...> Postgraduate education can be obtained in 3 medical academies of postgraduate education. <...> Special attention should be paid to the development of the current standards of pre- and postgraduate education on the specialty “Pediatrics”, and maintenance of the current range of the state order up to 780 persons annually, which corresponds to the needs of the country on the background of reduction of the number of pediatricians to 9000 <...>