THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN THE FIELD OF HEALTHCARE. FEATURES OF TEACHING THE DISCIPLINE «MEDICAL LAW»

Abstract

The article analyzes the features of teaching professional legal and medical knowledge taking into account modern social life. Given the prospects for mastery and professional growth, the basic level of knowledge obtained in the discipline «Medical Law» is undoubtedly relevant, both for future lawyers and practicing doctors. The study was based on anonymous questionnaires (formed in accordance with the purpose of the study) among respondents of three groups. The first group (main) included 40 students who receive professional legal education at the Lviv University of Trade and Economics at the Faculty of Law. The second and third groups were respondents of professional medical education, namely 3rd year students of the Medical Faculty – 20 people (second group) and practicing doctors (students of thematic cycles of professional medical improvement - 20 people; third group), who study and receive professional improvement at the departments State Non-Profit Society «Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University». According to the results of an anonymous questionnaire of the first group of respondents, it was stated that the basis of teaching the discipline «Medical Law» is an organic combination of two components: professional presentation of professional knowledge and the teacher's ability to form the personal socio-psychological characteristics of future professional lawyers. It is noted that the dominant component in teaching professional knowledge in the discipline «Medical Law» is closely interconnected with the possibility of clear feedback from the student-teacher-student, the formation of the right motivation of both links of the educational process. At the same time, the personal qualities of a higher education teacher play an important role in the process of mastering basic theoretical and professional knowledge. The results of processing the questionnaires of respondents of the second and third groups (professional medical education) stated: the basic level of knowledge in the discipline «Medical Law» for respondents of these groups is practically at the minimum level, however, the desire to obtain additional knowledge, with an emphasis on the practical processing of specific life examples, was expressed by 40 % of respondents.