Optimization of life goals setting methods during future doctors training in the specialty “medical and preventative care”

• Valeriy N. Tregubov
• Yakushina Irina I.
• Romanova Irina Yu.

Abstract

Effectiveness of future doctors activity largely depends on their ability to set and achieve life goals. To improve the future specialists' goal-setting skills in the field of medical and preventative care, following methods were used: questionnaire-based survey; monographical, analytical and logical methods. Trial recruitment of 55 graduate students of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University] as respondents and comprehensive generalization of the experience of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare named after N.A. Semashko made it possible to establish that training of medical professionals in goal-setting is an important direction in optimization of their professional training. Among surveyed students, proportion of people with high level of singlemindedness was 9.09%, with an average level of singlemindedness - 58.18%, and with low level of singlemindedness - 32.73%. It was found that among the respondents who do not know the methods of goal-setting, 83.64% tend to master them. The tasks of mastering the methodology of life goal forming and its achievement should be reflected in the Federal State Educational Standards of higher education and occupational standards of medical professionals. Training of future doctors in goal-setting can be carried out in the format of training in the system of their career-guidance and in the process of studying the discipline Public Health and Healthcare.

Keywords:goal, goal-setting, doctor, medical and preventative care, training

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