Government Nonprofit Company “Center of Education Quality of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” (the Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine) is a government nonprofit company, established to facilitate the implementation of the government policy for external assessment of the training quality of healthcare professionals.

Here, at the Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine, our work is focused on standardized assessment, education quality analytics, and continuous professional development.

The Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine is the legal successor of State Organization “Testing Board” (established under Ministry of Health of Ukraine Decree № 7, dated January 15, 1999, “On implementation measures for Ministry of Health of Ukraine Decree № 251, dated August 14, 1998, “On adoption of regulations for the system of Integrated Licensing Examination for higher education trainees majoring in Medicine or Pharmacy”, registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine under № 91/3384 on February 10, 1999) and State Nonprofit Enterprise “Testing Board” (created via reorganization under Ministry of Health of Ukraine Decree № 939, dated June 3, 2022, and the Law of Ukraine “Specifics of regulating legal entities of certain organizational and legal forms during the transitional period, as well as associations of legal entities").

Such institutional inheritance ensures the continuity of our methodological approaches, while allowing consistent modernization of the assessment procedures and analytical tools in response to the current needs of the education system and healthcare system.

The Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine provides development, methodological support, organization, and administration of certification for Bachelor’s and Master’s program students and for vocational pre-higher education students, majoring in 22 “Healthcare” / “Healthcare and Social Welfare” branch of knowledge (except specifically “Social Welfare” specializations). Such certification takes form of the test-based components of the Unified State Qualification Exam (USQE). For intern doctors / pharmacists, certification takes form of “Krok 3” Licensing Integrated Exam that is based on the standardized testing technologies.

A separate area of our work at the Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine is the administration of the Electronic System for Ensuring Continuous Professional Development of Healthcare Workers (the System). The System is government-owned (specifically, by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine).

As the administrator of the System, the Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine:

• provides access to it within the limits determined by the Ukrainian legislation and by the procedure that regulates the System’s functioning;

• processes and analyzes the entered information;
• monitors information about providers and their compliance with the regulations for conducting continuous professional development activities;
• ensures the registration of providers and activities;
• applies restrictive measures for providers and for individual activities within the sphere of continuous professional development;
• publishes information in the form of open data in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Access to Public Information";
• informs the technical administrator about the shortcomings identified in the System's operation;
• provides consulting services and information;
• and performs other administrator’s tasks.

The Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine works together with various educational and medical communities, associations, and organizations, collaborates with domestic and international institutions for certification and testing, and participates in international projects and joint programs in the sphere of competence assessment.

The mission of the Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine is to provide the state, the education system, and the healthcare sector with reliable tools for external control of the training quality, using standardized assessment, monitoring, and analysis of the education quality, as well as administration of the Electronic System for Continuous Professional Development, while upholding the principles of legality, objectivity, transparency, and proper data protection.

The vision of the Center of Education Quality of the MOH of Ukraine is to form a modern, highly trusted system for ensuring the high quality of healthcare education and professional development, where standardized assessment, analytical support for managerial decisions, and digital services for continuous professional development would contribute to improving the quality of training and, as a result, improving the overall quality of the healthcare provided for the people.