DEONTOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS MAJORING IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH CARE

Abstract

In the article, taking into account the deontological aspects of the educational process of students of higher education in the field of health care, the peculiarities of the organization and samples of research activities of students of the Poltava State Medical University are considered; the expediency of using non-auditory forms of scientific work is justified on the example of the functioning of the student scientific society as a necessary component of the process of forming future doctors’ professional competence for self-development and self-realization. The main principles of medical deontology are systematized, which takes into account three types of norms: moral as the object of studying professional ethics; deontological, transmitted orally and manifested in communication and relationships; legal ones, which allow to form the professional competence of the students based on the logical right of doctors to professional dignity and honor and contain normative principles of the doctor’s behavior. The indisputable principles of scientific research activity of future specialists in the field of health care are defined as the deontological orientation of knowledge, the objectivity of scientific position, which ensures universal significance of science conclusions; the responsibility of young scientists who develop mathematical models of diseases and determine treatment methods together with the doctor; taking into account the general and the individual in the creativity of the scientific team; the impossibility of opposing technology and technical progress to medical thinking, experience, and personal qualities. Conclusions have been made regarding the fact that the most crucial deontological quality of a future doctor-researcher is a set of appropriate moral norms determined by professional activity, a caring attitude towards the patient and high professionalism, the desire to constantly improve one’s own professional qualifications and scientific literacy; that medical deontology in the process of scientific research activity of future healthcare professionals is expressed in the scientific and ethical potential, in the need for self-improvement in the conditions of further professional activity. In the perspectives of the research, there is a review of the deontological aspects of the scientific and research activity of higher education students in the field of health care with the aim of a comprehensive approach to the integration of scientific and practical medicine, and professional deontology.