Department of Public Health and Healthcare of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry of the Ministry of Health of Russia has been training healthcare professionals for more than half a century. In 2008, the department launched a project to modernize the educational environment on a digital platform, including the development of active simulation technologies used in the training of healthcare management personnel. The game simulator «Virtual Medical Organization» has been developed, which has no analogues and is based on domestic legal regulation. The active use of simulation technologies in the pedagogical process of the department is based on the problem-target method and the principle of «learning by doing», when, solving practical problems, listeners come to the right answer on their own relying on the knowledge acquired and competencies formed. Such a teaching strategy promotes the involvement of the maximum number of analyzers and cognitive processes of the learner in the game process, which provides an integrative educational result at the output as a result of interaction. At the moment, there is an increasing need for remote use of simulation technologies in the educational process, which would make it possible to consolidate the acquired knowledge and expand the range of competencies of future leaders of health authorities and organizations. The article presents the experience of using the game simulator in the training and assessment of the competencies of healthcare management personnel and provides assessment for the effectiveness of its use. Based on the analysis of the results of the questionnaire survey of the listeners of the cycles of professional retraining and advanced training, conclusions were drawn about the effectiveness of the application of this educational technology in the system of additional professional education for the training of healthcare management personnel. The results of the study are aimed at replicating the possibility of using the presented simulator in a remote format in the process of training heads of health authorities and organizations.

In this work an attempt is made to consider virtual (digital, information) technologies of distance learning in medical education from the point of view of Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory and to assess the possibilities of satisfying all the needs of an individual within the digital educational environment. Such analysis helps to assess the quality and effectiveness of the virtual textbook from the perspective of the learners, which opens up new opportunities for its improvement.

The article presents our experience of comprehensive training of neurosurgeons at the clinical base of the Department of Neurosurgery of Sechenov University in Federal Center for Neurosurgery (Tyumen). For training we use laboratories with similar conditions as in operating rooms, virtual simulators, new author's educational models that provide anatomical and tactile accuracy, allowing young and inexperienced neurosurgeons to gain valuable surgical skills without risking patients’ well-being. Over a 7-year period, more than 1.5 thousand specialists from 38 different countries have taken training courses in our laboratories, which confirms created complex of educational technologies is of high interest and in-demand.

The article presents a comparative analysis of the learning curve of 40 students of Bashkir State Medical University on the technique of intracorporeal suture on a box simulator developed at the Department of Surgical diseases and new technologies and the "LapSim" simulator. Students who had different levels of manual skills were divided into two groups: the first - trained on a "box simulator", the second - trained on a "LapSim"simulator. To assess the level of development of practical skills, indicators of time spent on performing manipulation (in minutes) and GOALS (Global Operational Assessment of Laparoscopic Skills) were used. To assess the level of development of practical skills, indicators of time spent on performing manipulation (in minutes) and GOALS scores (Global Operational Assessment of Laparoscopic Skills). During analysis of the results there is a significant reduction of the time of performing manipulation in groups with an increase of the experience of students (in the performance of the second and third attempts). Training on a box simulator subjectively turned out to be easier for students than on a virtual laparoscopy simulator "LapSim".

Since no simulator is able to evaluate and work out the skill of communicating with a patient, there is a need to determine the capabilities of artificial intelligence in the process of training doctors. Artificial intelligence must meet many requirements, but primarily creative functions that are unique to humans. Artificial intelligence has already found application in many industries, including the training of medical personnel for the harmonious and holistic development of a specialist.

This work is devoted to the issue of introducing the Diagnostic-Promobot robot into a medical examination. The study proves that the use of this robot in the current conditions of a pandemic is not only useful, but also necessary, since initial contact with the patient can be excluded: the robot will collect all the necessary initial information.

Due to the fact that students rarely take part in diagnostic and therapeutic activities, there is a huge gap in the practical medical practice. To replenish it, there is the possibility of introducing humanoid robots with various scenarios into the educational process for the correct formation of professional skills and clinical thinking of students and young doctors.

Department of Public Health and Healthcare of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry of the Ministry of Health of Russia has been training healthcare professionals for more than half a century. In 2008, the department launched a project to modernize the educational environment on a digital platform, including the development of active simulation technologies used in the training of healthcare management personnel. The game simulator "Virtual Medical Organization" has been developed, which has no analogues and is based on domestic legal regulation.

The active use of simulation technologies in the pedagogical process of the department is based on the problem-target method and the principle of "learning by doing", when, solving practical problems, listeners come to the right answer on their own relying on the knowledge acquired and competencies formed. Such a teaching strategy promotes the involvement of the maximum number of analyzers and cognitive processes of the learner in the game process, which provide an integrative educational result at the output as a result of interaction. At the moment, there is an increasing need for remote use of simulation technologies in the educational process, which would make it possible to consolidate the acquired knowledge and expand the range of competencies of future leaders of health authorities and organizations.

The article presents the experience of using the game simulator in the training and assessment of the competencies of healthcare management personnel and provides assessment for the effectiveness of its use.

Based on the analysis of the results of the questionnaire survey of the listeners of the cycles of professional retraining and advanced training, conclusions were drawn about the effectiveness of the application of this educational technology in the system of additional professional education for the training of healthcare management personnel. The results of the study are aimed at replicating the possibility of using the presented simulator in a remote format in the process of training heads of health authorities and organizations.