professional socialization

The problem of the psychological analysis of person’s professional development reveals through concept professionalization persons, which is considered at several levels in conformity: as a stage of a way of life, as the specific form of activity, as means of development of the person, as one of socialization directions. Revealing of individually-psychological peculiarities of the person causing process of professional development.

Relevance. The study examines how the career orientation “Service” relates to a number of social and psychological personality characteristics of medical university students, helping to reveal value components of their self-image in the structure of their professional self-concept. The aim of the research is to explore the relationship between social and psychological characteristics and the manifestation of the career orientation “Service” among medical university students.

The paper presents the results of theoretical and methodological analysis of a problem of youth early socialization and the major role of professional community to provide socialization in contemporary environment. The authors support the idea of necessity to move towards cross-disciplinary and convergent education based on the implementation of the subject-oriented approach, referring to discussion of implementation of continuation of technological and competence-based approaches in education.