PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE MEDICAL SPECIALISTS: SPIRITUAL-MORAL ASPECT

Abstract

The article emphasizes the tasks of the modern medical area in Ukraine, analyzes the difficulties and problems in the field of professional training of healthcare professionals. The author reveals the main components of the professional competence of the modern medical worker, emphasizes the necessity of his/her general, cultural, professional development and self-improvement. It is proved that further destiny of the patient, his/her health, and the ability to carry out the professional activity depends on the general and professional culture of the medical worker, his/her personal traits and qualities, principles, world outlook, moral values. The peculiarities and specificity of the personal development of future health care workers at the stage of their professional training and formation during higher medical education are revealed. It is noted that moral norms, qualities, motives are the core in all spheres of personal activity. It is determined that in the medical area the duty, honor, conscience, which demonstrate a specialist’s self-dignity, his/her responsibility for professional actions and conformity to the vocation, recognition of the chosen profession as the meaning of his/her life are prevailing. The author distinguishes the components of morality, which should be cultivated in future medical professionals, and pays special attention to the development of spiritual-moral culture of specialists, characterizing the level and quality of professional activity of the medical worker. The article highlights the subjective and objective, internal and external factors influencing the formation of spirituality and moral virtues in future medical professionals; the content of the professional culture of the medical worker is analyzed, its functional-contextual characteristics are distinguished, the main components, including the praxeological and spiritual ones, are determined. It is established that in the process of professional training it is necessary to increase the interest of students in the chosen profession, focusing future professionals of the medical area in social, moral, professional values, raising responsibility before people for the fulfillment of professional duties.