Development and assessment of self-skills competence in modern higher education

Abstract

The modern educational space is a complex, multifaceted, multifunctional, and dynamically evolving system. The rapid development of science and technology leads to the rapid devaluation of the knowledge acquired by students during their university studies. New technologies are transforming the labor market, new professions are emerging, and the content of traditional professions is changing. All this leads to the need for a serious rethinking of approaches to higher education. In order to successfully fulfill the social demand for the training of highly qualified specialists, modern universities must not only provide students with subjectspecific, narrowly professional knowledge, skills and abilities (hard skills), but also develop universal competencies (soft skills), which include the ability to self-learn and self-develop, communicate and cooperate, creativity, critical thinking, self-organization skills, collective use of complex work instruments, etc. This is essential today for young professionals to be successful and attractive to employers. This is especially relevant for graduates of medical and pharmaceutical universities, whose professional activities are directly related to interacting with different patients and solving complex problems