Formation of the Medical University Student’s Professional Competence in the Study of Medical and Biological Disciplines

Keywords: student, institution of higher education, professional competence, competencies, professional competence of future physicians.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of higher medical education institution students’ professional development in the area of professional competencies, on the example of competency-based approach and learning outcomes, the formation of which is facilitated by the discipline «Medical and Biological Physics». The process of forming system of students’ knowledge and competencies in the study of medical and biological disciplines, which include basic physical principles and approaches to the study of processes in wildlife, physical and technical principles of medical devices, the use of mathematical methods in biomedical research, form the basis of subject competences and are an integral part of the professional competence of future physicians in the field of health care, as well as the basis for studying professional-oriented natural sciences and clinical disciplines in higher medical educational institutions of Ukraine. To achieve this goal, research methods such as generalization, comparison, systematization and abstraction were used. The structure of the medical institutions future specialists’ professional competence is substantiated, that contains the relationship with the normative content of training of higher education seekers, in accordance with the requirements of the standard of the discipline being studied. It is established that the detailization of competences according to the discipline curriculum, structures, forms, methods and conditions for realization of the model of the future physicians’ professional competence formation in the process of training in higher education institutions need a further research.

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Author Biographies


Liliya Batyuk, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University

PhD, Associate Professor of the Department of Medical and Biological Physics and Medical Informatics
Kharkiv National Medical University
4 Nauky Avenue, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61000
E-mail: lili.batyuk@gmail.com
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1863-0265


Oksana Zhernovnykova, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University

Doctor of Pedagogical Science (DSc), Professor,
Head of the Department of Mathematics,
H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University,
29, Alchevskykh Str, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61002
E-mail: oazhernovnykova@gmail.com
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5383-4493

Published
2021-11-30
How to Cite
Batyuk, L., & Zhernovnykova, O. (2021). Formation of the Medical University Student’s Professional Competence in the Study of Medical and Biological Disciplines. Professional Education: Methodology, Theory and Technologies, (14), 51-89. https://doi.org/10.31470/2415-3729-2021-14-51-89