As the situation in the world is extremely fluid, university educators must be ready and able to provide all educational, informational, consulting services using the Internet system. That is why the issue of the digital competence development is of a great importance. The purpose of this article is to highlight innovative strategies to promote the development of digital competence of medical university educators. In order to meet the demands of the modern informational society, it is critical to be responsive to the latest requirements and keep on learning. The formation of new organizational values and norms of electronic education require additional time, physical, and material resources. The main mission of methodological department of education quality assurance at the Poltava State Medical University established 5 years ago is to create conditions for educators to update their digital and methodological levels by organizing the digital space and moving work to qualitatively new standards. The matter of improving digital competence is of particular importance, as well as an updating the ideology regarding the organization and control of the teaching staff work. The University Library also contributes much in creating the modern educational environment. The library personnel try to combine traditional service and the latest information technologies. The creation, administration and moderation of the Poltava State Medical University repository are also very important. The university website is organized in such a way that it allows educators and students to use it easily and conveniently. Thus, today it is essential to train modern scientists, teachers, and managers to meet new demands, use a wide range of possibilities of innovative digital technologies and teach them to convey creative and critical use of these digital technologies.

The resident oral microbiota plays an important role as a factor in its colonization resistance that ensures human oral health. However, at the same time, oral microorganisms can act as causative agents of infectious diseases. Scientists emphasize that in the situation when bacteria demonstrated increased resistance to antibiotics, quorum sensing is a particularly attractive target, since this mechanism controls several factors of bacterial virulence that affect adhesion, invasion and colonization of microorganisms during the development of the pathological process. Quorum sensing inhibitors can be enzymes and various chemicals that able to affect quorum sensing. Streptococcus mitis is a representative of the resident microbiota of the human oropharynx. But despite its commensalism, Streptococcus mitis in association with other microorganisms takes part in many pathological processes. Objective of this study is to study the effect of Dekasan and Iodoform antiseptics on the adhesive properties of Streptococus mitis clinical isolates taken from the oral cavity of patients with infectious and inflammatory post-extraction complications. Materials and methods: examined clinical isolates of Streptococus mitis, which were isolated from 8 patients undergoing treatment for infectious-inflammatory post-extraction complications in the medical and surgical department of Poltava Regional Centre of Stomatology - Dental Clinical Polyclinic. Identification of selected cultures was carried out using an automatic bacteriological analyzer Vitec-2 compact bioMarieux (France). We used the average values of subbacteriostatic concentrations of the active ingredients of antiseptics. Adhesive properties of clinical isolates under the influence of Dekasan and Iodoform were determined according to the method of V.I. Brylis. Conclusions: antiseptics have different effects on the adhesive properties of clinical isolates of Streptococus mitis.

The problem of treatment and prevention of infectious-inflammatory post extraction complications in modern surgical dentistry are still challenging, despite the great advances in this field. Many etiological factors are identified as contributing to the development of such complications, but at present scientists are paying much attention to the infectious factor, which is associated with the microflora of the tooth socket after tooth removal. According to the literature, the most common post-extraction complication during an outpatient surgical appointment is alveolitis, which accounts for 1-35% of all cases of tooth extraction. To combat an infectious etiological factor of alveolitis, dental surgeons apply topical antiseptics with a broad spectrum of action such as iodoform and chlorhexidine. As a topical antiseptic drug in the treatment and prevention of oral infectious and inflammatory complications, a domestic antiseptic, Decasan, based on decamethoxine, is becoming more widely applied. Previous studies have shown that this antiseptic has antimicrobial effect against gram-positive and gram-negative, aerobic and anaerobic bacteria; this requires further in-depth studies of its properties, which could be applied in the dental surgical practice to treat and prevent infectious-inflammatory post extraction complications. Chlorhexidine bigluconate is a cationic biguanide. Penetrating into the intracellular membranes of bacteria, it impedes the oxygen consumption and leads to the death of bacterial cells. This antiseptic is widely used in dental practice. Treatment of alveolitis is carried out by using the standard method, namely by using iodoform tamponade of the tooth socket in combination with other medicines. Iodoform (triiodomethane) is a yellow crystalline substance with a strong characteristic odor, practically insoluble in water. In dentistry, this drug is used as an antiseptic in powder form, or combined pastes. The purpose of this in vitro study is to investigate the antimicrobial properties of Decasan, chlorhexidine and iodoform against museum microbial strains. Materials and methods. Museum strains of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC 14990, Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212, Esherichia coli ATCC 25922, Candida albicans ATCC 10231, obtained from L.V. Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, were used as studied cultures of microorganisms. The antimicrobial effect of decasan, chlorhexidine and iodoform was assessed by quantitative method of serial dilutions in broth and agar according to the order №167, dated 5.04.2007 On approval of guidelines “Determination of sensitivity of microorganisms to antibacterial drugs". Conclusion. According to the data obtained, decasan and chlorhexidine demonstrate higher bacteriostatic and bactericidal effect on the studied museum microbial strains at a concentration thousands of times lower than the concentration of iodoform.

No abstract

For the first time at the normative level, the concept of "academic integrity" was enshrined in the Law of Ukraine "On Education," which was adopted in 2017. Article 42 of the Law defines academic integrity as a set of ethical principles and rules that must be followed by participants in the educational process to ensure trust in the results of training and/or scientific achievements. The education quality assurance system has three structural components: the quality assurance system in educational institutions, the system of external assurance of the quality of education, and the system of quality assurance in the activities of management bodies and institutions that provide external assurance of the quality of education. The participants in the educational process who are subject to the principles of academic integrity are pedagogical, scientificpedagogical, and scientific workers, as well as students of education. The objective of this study is to assess the level of knowledge of students at the second (Master's) level of higher education in the "Medicine" program at Poltava State Medical University regarding violations of academic integrity depending on the course of study. Materials and methods: The study involved 117 students at the second (Master's) level of higher education in the OPP "Medicine" program at Poltava State Medical University. Among them, 73 people studied in the third year and 44 in the second year of medical faculties at the university. The study tested the students' ability to recognize various violations of academic integrity, such as plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, writing off, and deception using specific examples. Respondents were offered an anonymous questionnaire containing 10 situations regarding academic integrity issues where they had to identify violations if present. The questionnaire also included questions about respondents' demographics, such as age, gender, and year of education. Conclusion: The majority of the surveyed secondand third-year students in the "Medicine" program at Poltava State Medical University (72.72% and 79.45%, respectively) demonstrated a sufficient or rather sufficient level of knowledge regarding violations of academic integrity.