INFORMATION-COGNITIVE COMPETENCE AS ONE OF KEY COMPONENTS OF READINESS OF THE TEACHER OF A MEDICAL UNIVERSITY TO IMPLEMENT THE COMPETENCY APPROACH IN THE CONDITIONS OF MODERN EDUCATION
This article examines the role of the information-cognitive component of the readiness of the teacher of a medical higher education institution as one of the key components for the implementation of the competency approach in education. Based on the theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical approaches to understanding information-cognitive competence, the authors of the article found that a number of researchers consider this competence as two separate competencies: information (information-communicative) and cognitive. By combining these two competences we can distinguish one - information-cognitive, which combines the abilities to learn new and the skills to find this new among the variety of available information. That is, information-cognitive competence is a set of interrelated qualities of personality that reflect a constant need and desire for self-education, self- improvement, self-development, as well as the skill to find, select and analyze information for this purpose.