Open AccessOn the experience of health professionals’ information competence formation in the framework of continuing professional education
Author(s) -
Elena Yu. Nikitina,
Larisa Yu. Ovsyanitskaya,
Natalia V. Butenko,
Марина Владимировна Жукова,
Lidiya P. Rulevskaya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista tempos e espaços em educação
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2358-1425
pISSN - 1983-6597
DOI - 10.20952/revtee.v14i33.16323
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , health professionals , immediacy , medical education , professional development , health care , continuing professional development , process (computing) , psychology , knowledge management , engineering ethics , pedagogy , medicine , computer science , political science , engineering , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , law , operating system
Immediacy of such a problem as health professionals’ information competence formation is due to the necessity of continuing improvement of pedagogical approaches, methods and technologies of educating medical staff how to use information technologies in their professional activity to provide for their correspondence to the stable and outrunning level of society development in the process of education and healthcare digital transformation. The article aims at the formation of methodological approaches to the pedagogical process studying the use of information technologies in the framework of post-graduate continuing education of health professionals taking into account their professional requirements and work specifics. The leading method of the problem study is the method of involved observation that enabled to make authentic comparison and analyze inquiries of 349 professionals attending the courses of continuing education. The article shows that the applied pedagogical approaches and methods have to correspond to the modern level of information technologies and digital education development, characterized by qualitative changes in the technologies that process and transfer data and widely use the intellectual decision making systems. It states the results obtained in the practical implementation of the offered theoretical and methodological approaches to the process of health professionals’ information competence formation. This results in the developed complex of methodological approaches to teaching information technologies at the general scientific, specific scientific and method and technological levels enabling the formation of health professionals’ information competence. The article can be useful for students and teachers of pedagogical universities, teachers of medical universities and institutions involved in health professionals’ continuing education.