Modernity requires a set of completely new qualities, skills, abilities,
and personal features from preparation of doctors at the postgraduate stage of their
education. An important role in solving these tasks is played by methods and forms
of organization of the educational process, aimed at optimizing the development of
clinical thinking. Reforming approaches, methods and forms of training in accordance
with the requirements of modern education is carried out as part of the educational
process. To improve the quality of postgraduate education, it is necessary to widely
use innovative methods of the educational process. The purpose of this work was
to: analyze the effectiveness and appropriateness of the use of interactive methods
and forms of training within the educational process at the stage of postgraduate
education of interns and dentists. Scientific-pedagogical sources and the results of
own observations have been studied, summarized and processed by using methods of
literary synthesis, structural and logical analysis, based on the principles of systemic
approach and systemic analysis. The article discusses some methods of interactive
teaching (interactive lecture, algorithmization of the treatment process, educational
discussions, the method of project work, the use of the case method) and substantiates
their need for application and high efficiency in the formation of clinical thinking,
motivation for in-depth study of the subject, as well as accumulation and analysis of
clinical experience