STUDY OF MEDICAL STUDENTS’ PREDISPOSITION TO TYPES OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Abstract

According to statistics, about 70–74 % of the total number of those accepted for training graduate from medical higher educational institutions. Of the total number of graduates of medical universities, up to 30 % do not go to work in practical healthcare. One of the reasons for this is an insufficiently formed professional identity, which can be formed in the learning process if the predisposition of students of a medical university to various types of professions and other types of professional activities in the field of healthcare are identified and taken into account in the educational process. The content analysis of the nomenclature of medical specialties made it possible to compile models of possible combinations of types of medical professions and characterize them. The place of the professional subtype «Medicine» in the structure of professions of the socionomic type has been established. One-, two-, three-component models of professions of socionomic type, subtype «Medicine» and their classification are proposed. The results of career guidance testing based on E.A. Klimov’s differential diagnostic questionnaire are presented. The predisposition of students in medical areas of training and specialties of the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University to a certain type of professional activity has been established. Differences in the predisposition of students of different courses of study to combinations of types of professions were revealed.