ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF MEDICAL STUDENTS
The teaching profession is a stage professional biography and personal life of an individual student as a whole, therefore, it is necessary to consider the training of students within the University and in the growing process of mutual exchange of students between States and foreign students. The main condition for the development of professional identity is to increase the level of his professional self, the formation of his "professional self", gaining his professional self. The article is devoted to study ethnic peculiarities of professional identity of Russian and foreign medical students. The study was conducted on the basis of Kursk state medical University. The total sample consisted of 95 persons (45 foreign students of the fourth year of the medical faculty of Russian and 50 students in the fourth and sixth courses of the medical faculty). Research methods: theoretical analysis of special literature; empirical methods: observation, conversation; psychodiagnostic methods: test Kuna "Who I am?" (modified by T. V. Rumyantseva); the methodology for the study of professional identity of L. B. Schneider; Express-survey "tolerance Index" (G. U. Soldatova et al.); the scale of core beliefs (R. Yanov-Boulemane); the method of "Diagnostics of social and psychological installations of the personality in motivational-requirement sphere" O. F. Potemkina; method "Value orientations" by M. Rokicha; methods of studying motivation of study at the University T. I. Ilyina; the method of "Diagnostics of the level of development of reflexivity" A.V. Karpov. Statistical processing of the results was performed using methods of General statistics, comparative statistics (U-Mann-Whitney). Mathematical processing was carried out using the package of applied programs "STATISTICA 8.0". The study of professional identity during the training phase at the University will enable us to reach specific mechanisms in the formation of ideas, the future doctors of the profession and to address issues of integration of ethnic and professional identity of specialists.