E-LEARNING PRACTICE-ORIENTED APPROACH IN HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
E-learning is the most important aspect of modern system of high professional education. E-learning is the base of distance education, necessary element of lifelong educational process and important part of practice-oriented approach in high professional education. Learning Management System (LMS), based on Internet technologies, is the form of e-learning. LMS MOODLE, for example, is often used in high professional education. Kursk State Medical University uses it for many years as a platform of continuing medical education. The author analyzed the LMS MOODLE elements for practice-oriented approach in teaching the discipline "Physics" in medical university. LMS MOODLE following elements: "Package SCORM", "Test", "Task", "Hyperlink", "File", "Folder", "Forum" were selected by the author as effective tools for acquiring and improving the competencies necessary for a future healthcare specialists. To the authors' opinion, LMS MOODLE is system that allows to teach medical students to solve practical and theoretical problems of professional activity, get basic skills in using modern scientific methods in medicine.