PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY OF DOCTORS-TEACHERS OF MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The history of Russian medical education indicates the importance of developing the clinical thinking of a future doctor. Today, the problem has become even more acute due to the peculiarities of the educational situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, when the training of future doctors was carried out online. Considering the difficulties of forming the clinical thinking of future doctors, in 2019-2022 a study was conducted at St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University to identify specific cognitive skills of medical university teachers who train prospective doctors. Purpose. To study specific cognitive skills that determine the specifics of the intellectual activity of teachers of clinical and theoretical departments of medical universities that train prospective doctors. Methodology. The research is based on activity-based and cognitive approaches that allow studying personality as a subject of professional activity. The diagnostic procedure was carried out using the R. Amthauer test. The structure of intelligence was determined by the factor analysis and the principal component method followed by varimax rotation with Kaiser normalization. The Statistica 10.0 program was used to process the obtained empirical results. Results. The research materials served as a source of forming ideas about the features of cognitive skills underlying the clinical thinking of doctors – teachers of clinical and theoretical departments, contributing to the development of cognitive skills of prospective doctors and determining the success of their intellectual activity. Conclusions. The obtained results can be used in the field of higher medical education.

Keywords

• clinical thinking
• doctor-teacher of medical university
• cognitive skills
• intellectual activity