CONTINUITY OF EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES OF HIGH-SCHOOL MEDICAL STUDENTS
The article deals with the issues of continuity in medical education: between the subjects taught in earlier and later years of medical education. Studying cross-subject ties is vital because a) these ties must exist not only in content, but also in methodology; b) description of these ties must be presented within the competence-based approach to education. Analysis of works on the problems of higher medical education shows the necessity to build educational competence of first- and second-year student as a basis for later clinical subjects. The author defines educational competence of students and describes its structure. The author uses the first-year subject “Physics and Maths” as an example of building such competences as “comparison ability”, “classification ability”. “studies-planning ability”, which collectively form the educational competence, and shows their ties with professional competences.