EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE LEVEL OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS OF STUDENTS ORIENTED TO BECOME A HEALTH CARE MANAGERS

Abstract

Background. To Investigate features of emotional intelligence of students oriented to become health care managers. Materials and methods. The study was conducted at the Department of Public Health and Health Care Service named after N.A. Semashko, the Center for Master’s Programs and the Graduate School of Health Care of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. The study involved 242 students of Sechenov University who were trained in the field of medical and preventive care, as well as master students and residents who were trained to become health care managers. The study included 80 men (33.1%) and 162 women (66.9%). The groups did not differ by sex and age. The subjects were included in 3 groups: – group 1 (comparison group 1) – 66 people who underwent postgraduate training (interns, residents, masters); – group 2 (comparison group 2) – 104 students of the medical and preventive faculty of Sechenov University, – group 3 (core) – 72 students who completed the course “Factory of Health Leaders”. During the study, indicators of emotional intelligence (emotional awareness, managing one’s emotions, empathy, self-motivation, recognition of other people’s emotions) were evaluated. Evaluation using scoring system was also based on personality self-actualization (the desire for self-actualization, time orientation, values, a look at the nature of a person, the need for knowledge, creativity, autonomy, spontaneity, self-understanding, autosympathy, contact, flexibility in communication). Results. The result of the study is an assessment of characteristics of the students’ emotional intelligence, who are training in the “Public Health and Health Care” program, which are valuable for identification of the abilities of understanding personality relationships that are represented in emotions and in management of the emotional sphere based on decision-making. Conclusion. The results of the study indicate that the parameters included in the discriminant models of multiple logistic regression analysis can be used as possible predictors for evaluating the parameters of emotional intelligence and the test of personality self-actualization, which, in turn, with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity determine students’ membership in the selected group and students of the Health Leaders Factory program. Based on these models, it can be assumed that among students the parameters of emotional intelligence are closely associated with leadership qualities. These models can be used during testing of students for identification of students with leadership qualities in the early stages of training in order to fully reveal their potential when studying in training programs for health leaders.

Keywords

• лидерство в здравоохранении
• подготовка организаторов здравоохранения
• эмоциональный интеллект
• самоактуализация личности
• множественный логистический регрессионный анализ