The article is devoted to the observation of the work of The Second International Forum on Higher Medical Education, which was conducted at China Medical University in Shenyang, China in May, 26-27, 2018. About 300 participants from 49 medical higher educational institutions, located in 15 countries took part in this academic event. The main topics, which were discussed during the forum, were internationalization of higher medical education, implementation of modern innovations in teaching and learning processes, quality assurance in medical education (...) and searching for the adequate forms of its assessment. (shrink)

The paper is devoted to the problem of historical development of university community through the lenses of understanding of university mission. The authors undertake critical reflections of the scheme of evolution of university mission, which was elaborated by American researcher John Scott, as far as add some theoretical and methodological suggestions to this scheme. In this respect, typical for late medieval university mission of teaching and corporate based building of university community in the modern times are supplemented by the mission (...) of research. At the same time, university is incorporated in the system of arising nation-state as a tool for preparation highly-qualified bureaucrats for its apparatus. In postmodern times in the context of globalization and certain emancipation of the university from the state such aspects of university mission as the different forms of civil service or the third mission of university become more and more important. (shrink)