THE ROLE OF INDEPENDENT STUDENTS’ WORK IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL AND COMMON PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES (WITH AN EXAMPLE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDYING IN A HIGHER MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT)
The article presents a model of organization of independent educational activity of medical university students in the process of a foreign language studying within the competence approach. The authors point out a number of general cultural and professional competences presented in the Federal state educational standard of higher education (2016) for the specialty "General medicine", the development of which can be provided in the course of independent studying of the subject. The analysis of the regulations of organization of independent educational activity of medical university students is performed with the example of the First Moscow State Medical University n.a. I. M. Sechenov and the Volgograd State Medical University. The characteristics of the objective, content and procedural aspects of the process organization, is given with an example of foreign language learning by first-year students. The technology of students ' work on educational research projects, contributing to the development of their readiness for life-long learning, as well as the use of various information resources and databases. The article contains the data of the survey conducted to estimate the students’ satisfaction with the organization of independent educational activity and its results. The role of a higher school teacher as a facilitator of the independent educational activity is demonstrated. The model is implemented by authors within a personality-oriented educational process. The experience of the VolgSMU staff members in interactive pedagogical techniques mastering with the purpose of improvement of independent educational activity organization is presented.