THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A STUDENT WHEN CHOOSING A MEDICAL SPECIALTY

Abstract

The article discusses issues of choosing a medical specialty based on a study of the personal characteristics of students at the Medical Institute of the North-Eastern Federal University named after M.K. Ammosov. The characteristic features of the types of temperament and adaptive abilities of the personality of 3rd year students of the “General Medicine” are identified and described, using the G. Eysenck EPI (Eysenck Personality Inventory), questionnaire test, adapted by A.G. Shmelev and multilevel personality test “Adaptability” (MLO-AM) by D.G. Maklakov and S.V. Chermyanin. The results of this study will be interesting and useful to specialists in the field of psychology, higher education pedagogy and doctors. Based on the study, it is established that among the students there are mostly individuals with a melancholic type of temperament and a high level of neuroticism predominate. Also, people are identified mainly with low adaptive ability, which the authors associate with the beginning of the study of clinical disciplines and with the formation of new professional competencies for the development of clinical thinking among future doctors. The authors specified medical specialties in accordance with the types of temperament.