International accreditation of the main educational program as possibility of opening the new educational horizons

Abstract

Development of education market is followed by formation of the market of services in the sphere of education quality assurance, emergence of demand for an independent external assessment of education quality. The international accreditation of the basic educational professional program gains the special importance at confirmation of graduates training level in "Clinical psychology" specialty, as this is a new branch which was created in the last three decades in Russia as a result of integration of some disciplines, adjacent, but having different history and perspective. First of all, it was formed by such fields of psychology recognized by all world psychological community as a neuropsychology and a pathological psychology, and also by corporality psychology (psychosomatics), psychology of abnormal ontogenesis, psychological correction, and health psychology created a bit later. In 2014 the basic educational program "Clinical psychology" which is being performed in Krasnoyarsk State Medical University underwent procedure of professional-public and also international accreditation. Achieving this result (in addition to other factors) became possible thanks to the collaboration developing since 2013 between Krasnoyarsk State Medical University (Russia) and Klaipeda University (Lithuania). It is possible to declare that the international accreditation procedure certifies and states the strong relations of the higher education institution as implementer of the basic educational professional program with various social institutes and the international partners, providing thereby possibility of career developing for its graduates and opening the new professional horizons for them.