GENESIS AND CURRENT STATE OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF PHYSICAL THERAPY AND ERGOTHERAPY SPECIALIST TO BE IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF UKRAINE

The genesis and current state of professional training of physical therapy and ergotherapy specialist to be in higher educational system of Ukraine is characterized and generalized on a basis of theoretical analysis of scientific literature. It is established that physical therapy (rehabilitation) considerably differs from other specialties in the system modern higher professional education because physical therapy and ergotherapy specialist to be should be well-oriented in professional field, see the perspectives of its further development and improvement. Physical therapist’s professional activity considered to be a system of purposeful application of professional skills which are based on professionally oriented knowledge and ensure their conscious use for meeting the goal and professional tasks solving. The perspective ways of development of physical therapist’s professional status in Ukraine are defined. It is proven that professional activity of physical therapy (rehabilitation) and ergotherapy specialist is oriented to educational anthropology sphere and provides the following types of professional activity: sports and education, recreational and leisure, rehabilitation and health-improving, educational and professional, correction, organizational and organizational and administrative. On the basis of analysis of the complex of literary sources it is established that the structure of professional training includes professional knowledge (special, methodical, psychological and educational), professional skills (didactic, organizational, constructive, prognostic, communicative) and personal qualities (values, skills, character). The concept of “competence of physical therapist, ergotherapist” which was established by the document of professional education, includes: the competence in the field of physical therapy and ergotherapy theory, competence in the field of modern rehabilitation technologies and methods, competence in projecting and rehabilitation systems, competence in professional interaction with rehabilitation process participants (members of multidisciplinary team, patients, patients’ family members/guardians), competence in investigation theory and practice in the field of physical therapy and ergotherapy, competence in medical innovations, competence in organization and management, competence in professional self-development.