Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2014 number 2

There is argued in the article the need to create new models of the professional identity formation of medical specialists, which will be complementary to the purposes of the modern higher education, changing social realities and medical practices. There is proposed an innovative-psychological model of professional medical education as an interpersonal construct of the reflexive type based on new scientific data, allowing overcoming the existing dissociation of medical and psychological paradigms in the medical practice. There are analyzed the defining, professionally important qualities of the medical specialists constituted in the innovative-psychological model of interaction between the doctor and the patient, such as reflexivity, autonomy, responsibility, and trust. Following the research results, there are specified the individual and subject indicators, which are of priority for the profession of doctor and which allow intensifying his/her professional growth.