FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE FOR THE FUTURE REHABILITATION SPECIALISTS

The article reveals the content, essence and features of the formation of professional competence of future rehabilitation specialists. The use of new technologies in studying of a future specialist with the involvement of relevant standards and principles of society ensures the formation of a certain competence. The article emphasizes that communication competence is of great importance for a physical rehabilitator, because a specialist, while performing his duties, must be able to communicate with patients, be restrained when communicating, empathize and be able to respond correctly to patients' appeals. The main issue remains the development of a new system of education and training of specialists who will have sufficient scientific and technical potential, possess the necessary innovative technologies in the modern conditions of the development of world society. To achieve the goal of the research, a set of research methods was used: theoretical (comparative, logical, terminological, generalization, abstraction, analysis and synthesis) and empirical (observation, survey, ascertaining pedagogical experiment). In the conditions of a rapidly changing world and an increase in the flow of information, fundamental subject knowledge is a necessary but not sufficient goal of education. Students should not just master the required amount of knowledge, skills and abilities, which is what the Ukrainian education system is aimed at. It is much more important and difficult to instill in students the ability to independently acquire, analyze, structure and effectively use information for maximum self-realization and useful participation in society (competence). Keywords: rehabilitation specialist, competence approach, professional competence, groups of competences, competent specialist, physical rehabilitator, physical therapist, clinical practice, patient functioning, functional state.