The professional identity of future medical specialists is a four-component
structure in which each of the components has a social and personal determination:
1) axiological – the value of the profession for the personality of the specialist
(personal); acceptance by the personality the values of the profession (social),
determination of one’s own professional self-worth (personal); 2) cognitive –
awareness by a specialist the social essence and subject content – fundamental-
scientific, clinical, communicative and deontological – of professional activity,
professional community and its place in it (social); awareness by a specialist
professional demand and career opportunities in the profession (personal), own
educational and professional potential for mastering the profession (personal);
3) affective – emotional attitude to the profession (social) and attitude to oneself
(personal); 4) behavioral – patterns of actualization of the professional identity of the
specialist in activity and interaction (social), patterns of self-regulation in professional
activity (personal). Identified components in the assessment of the formation of
professional identity play the function of criteria, and their intra- component
constituents – parameters. Instrumentalization of identified assessment parameters led
to the development of a diagnostic apparatus for determining the state of students’
professional identity formation.
The identified components of professional identity, their dynamic properties and
pedagogical conditions of formation became the basis for the development of a
model of formation of professional identity of future medical specialists in higher
educational institutions. The constructed model of formation of professional identity
of future medical specialists includes purpose-oriented (goal and task), conceptual
(concepts of determining the structure, factors and conditions of formation; scientific
and pedagogical approaches in formation), content-activity (content – substantive and
psychological, forms – formal and informal, methods – dialogical, contextual, role,
practical, etc. and stages of formation), evaluation (criteria, statuses and levels),
effective (result) blocks.
The scientific results of the research is that
for the first time the author’s interpretation of the structure of professional
identity of future medical specialists is proposed; criteria, indicators, levels of
professional identity of future medical specialists is developed; the model of
formation of professional identity of future medical specialists in higher educational
institutions is developed;
has been further developed the analysis of the content of professional identity of
future medical specialists; diagnostic tools for determining the level of professional
identity of future medical specialists;
has been clarified the concept of professional identity of the future medical
specialist, separated from other variants of professional identity, the signs of their
differentiation are determined.
