WAYS AND MEANS OF FORMING THE LEGAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS MAJORING IN MEDICAL SPECIALTIES

Abstract

Modern society and the state place high demands on the training of future doctors, students of medical specialties. In the structure of professional competence of such specialists, researchers quite justifiably distinguish legal competence. By virtue of his profession, in addition to those regulated by labor law, the doctor faces relations that have clear legal regulation in the field of constitutional law, criminal law, and civil law. The task of the university is to ensure the formation and improvement of the legal competence of the future doctor. The article concludes that improving the quality of implementation of educational programs in medical specialties, involving graduates and employers in the discussion and improvement of the educational program at all stages of training doctors in the specialties “General Medicine”, “Pediatrics”, “Dentistry”, the introduction of two interrelated disciplines into the educational process: the university-wide course “Jurisprudence” and the special course (“Actual issues of public health and health care”) will allow forming and developing the professional competence of the future doctor and its most important component – legal competence.