Developing informational competence in medical students by optimizing the organization of self study work

Abstract

In accordance with the «National Program for Personnel Training» increasing demands are set for the quality of education at higher educational institutions. For successful professional training of highly qualified professionals in the new socio-economic conditions, the first priority is the student's personality, ability to make decisions independently and to further implement them. Education becomes personally oriented. The main objective of Ukrainian education at this stage is to meet the standards of highly developed countries and to achieve certain results that will demonstrate competitiveness in the single professional space of the world. Medical education must ensure high quality training of health care professionals, who must not only be proficient in the specialty, but also master the competence to solve complex issues, The ability to adapt to new changes, understanding of the basics of modern information technology, insurance, economics, law, business communication. At the current stage of development of higher education, its aim is to expand the spectrum of interdisciplinary training of specialists (interdisciplinary connection). The structure of the study programmes allows students to organize the learning process in a flexible way. One of the priority areas of training a future specialist is informational competence, which modern scientists interpret as a student's readiness to use professionally-oriented information technologies for the purpose of constant self-improvement. Formation of informational competence should be carried out with the involvement of active self-directed activity of the student, as it is impossible to perform during the scheduled class time. As a result, students' self-study has become crucial, now taking up 50-60% of class time, and this proportion has been increasing steadily over the last few years