THE FORMATION OF FUTURE DOCTORS’ MANAGERIAL COMPETENCE: EXPERIENCE IN LEADING INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER MEDICAL EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of future doctor’s managerial competence formation. The aim of the article is as follows: to analyze the educational programs of future doctor’s training in the leading medical higher education institutions in Ukraine in the context of their managerial competence formation. The article highlights the results of scientific literature analysis. The author substantiates the criteria for selection of institutions of higher medical education of Ukraine, the experience of which is studied. The article presents the results of the analysis of educational programs for future doctors’ training and determines its common features as well as compliance with the Standard of higher education for the second (master’s) level of higher education in speciality 222 Medicine. It is proved that most institutions of higher medical education offer optional courses, which form separate components of the managerial competence of a future doctor in such professional domains as “cooperation”, “services”, and “the development of profession”. The issues of forming managerial competence for the implementation of one’s own professional activity and professional development of doctors, promoting the development of professional community, improving services, introducing changes, etc., remain outside the attention of educational programs’ developers. The conclusion is made that there are gaps both in educational programs and in the knowledge of medical students regarding the need to master managerial knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as their application in professional activities. Such conclusions provide grounds for the development of scientific and methodical recommendations for solving this issue.