PROFESSIONAL TOLERANCE OF A PHYSICIAN WITHIN THE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL CULTURE

Abstract

The paper focuses on an analysis of correlation between professional medical culture and tolerance. The research allows clarifying the concept of professional tolerance of a physician, which is construed as a professionally significant personality quality, expressed in benevolence towards patients regardless of the heterogeneity of socio-cultural and personal factors, exercising a person-centered approach in practice, as well as psychological resistance to any objectively or subjectively undesirable factors challenging communication. The authors emphasise the importance of intensification of the educational process in higher medical school based on the moral, ethical and axiological foundations of medical activity, due to the objective need for the rise of a new generation of professionally and socially competent doctors ready to conscientiously perform their duties in the changing socio-cultural reality and the emergence of global challenges for healthcare.