DEVELOPMENTAL FEATURES OF THE FUTURE DOCTORS’ PROFESSIONAL DIRECTION

Abstract

The article presents an overview of research on medical students, namely on the trends in the formation of professional direction components. The purpose of this work is to analyze modern studies of professional direction and its components in medical students, and to identify the specific features of the process of its formation and development. In the course of studying the problem, the following specific features were established: a tendency of reducing motivation for learning and subsequent work in the profession, the development of emotional burnout syndrome, insufficiently formed educational and professional goal-setting, pragmatic professional expectations and career attitudes, lack of an axiological aspect in training. The author also analyzed the potential of communicative teaching of a foreign language in relation to the correction of the above mentioned features.