Forming soft skills of pedagogical personnel of profile university
The article is devoted to the question of the need for the formation of soft skills among teachers of a specialized university using the example of a medical university. The analyzed idea is relevant in line with the updating of federal state educational standards that formulate requirements for the results of mastering a specialty program as part of a competency-based approach. In particular, the requirement to form soft skills such as the ability and willingness to work and communicate in public and private life, to collaborate and resolve conflicts, social mobility, social interaction with society, the team, family, friends, partners, and tolerance is impossible to perform without understanding the specifics of these qualities, the ways of their development and personal demonstration and implementation in the pedagogical process. The pedagogical competence of a teacher at a medical university, as well as professional, is determined in line with the classification of a profession in the person-to-person system and is considered as a necessary internal balance of an individual's communications in a modern educational environment that provides a humanistic type of relationship. In the practice of teaching specialized disciplines, there is a tendency to shift the emphasis of the teaching staff towards the formation and development of general professional and narrow professional competencies, the so-called hard skills. This phenomenon is explained, in part, by the lack of professional and pedagogical knowledge among teachers of specialized universities. Teacher training programs for teachers will help solve the identified problem. The authors believe that improving the system of continuing professional education, introducing new educational practices through the implementation of continuing education programs for teachers of a specialized university in pedagogical areas will contribute to the development of intellectual potential and the training of highly qualified health professionals with established soft skills.