Analysis of genesis of problems in formation of IT-competence of foreign students in the higher medical educational system

Abstract

The article analyzes the essence of IT competence of medical workers, outlines it urgency and marked ways of its improvement. A distinction made between the structure of IT-competence and the criteria that characterize it. The issue of informatical training foreign students who have studying in the specialty "Medical Treatment" in the second year and studying the subject "Medical Informatics" researched. In the general system of medical training, the discipline "Medical Informatics" placed in the cycle of natural science training. Levels of computer science knowledges determination by the results of learning students from the countries of Asia, Africa and the Middle East regions has carried. Based on the curricula and strategic learning aims, a comparative description of educational systems and the levels of effectiveness of computer science education in secondary schools in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The results of the survey of foreign students have demonstrated the heterogeneity in the skills of working with information technology, which related to the level of pre-university training. The causes of problems of the in the informational disciplines training system of the foreign students are determined and the approaches to intensification of the process of their education highlighted. Comparison of the results of beginning control of foreign students experience in the discipline "Medical Informatics" showed a different levels of the owning by learning material. In particular this is due to the peculiarities learning of the computer sciences in secondary schools of the countries of Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Found that certain features in the process of teaching computer science are overcome by making appropriate adjustments to the content of training, which should be formed taking into account the countries of origin of students. Students as additional tasks in the process of distance learning should learn the proposed additions.