SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS TRAINING OF FUTURE PHYSICIANS

摘要

The article states the pedagogical problems of social media usage in studying at higher medical educational institutions, analyses the role and functions of a tutor in the learning process, grounds the advantages and disadvantages of social media implementation in higher medical education, describes the experience of social networks usage in professional and communicative skills training of future physicians in Ukraine and abroad. It has been proved that implementation of social media aids to realize the student-oriented methodological approach. Furthermore, it benefits from the conservative learning methods in which the student does not have the same possibilities of open access to information, global networking sites, international cooperation and collaboration. Social media have the positive influence on the development of future physicians, ready to the professional challenges, continuous individual learning and self-study.