FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES OF FUTURE PHYSICAL THERAPISTS ON BIOETHICS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of improvement of professional training and acquisition of professional competencies by future specialists of physical therapy, based on bioethical principles. The educational process of practical training of specialists in physical therapy of the educational qualification level "bachelor" in accordance with the Standard of Higher Education of Ukraine for the first (bachelor) level for the specialty 227 "Physical Therapy, ergotherapy", branch of knowledge 22 "Health", were approved and introduced in effect 19.12.2018 (Order # 1419 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) provides for General competencies (LC), namely, the LC 02. Ability to act on the basis of ethical considerations (motives) and Program Learning Outcomes – “PR 01. Demonstrate knowledge of biopsychososial model Disability and ability to analyze medical, social and personal problems of the patient/client ".
All these theoretical knowledge and mastery of the ability to apply them in practice, physical therapists should be based on adherence to bioethical principles in the process of patient rehabilitation.
The purpose of the study is to analyze the problem of bioethics as a normative, regulatory, interdisciplinary system and to improve the training of physical therapists to acquire professional competencies based on bioethical principles. The following research methods were used in the work: systematic approach and systematic analysis of the application of bioethics in rehabilitation, bibliosemantic (analysis of information flow of literary sources), pedagogical observation, virtual situational modeling using role situations "physical therapist – patient – social environment of the patient", analysis of practical cases, psychological testing.
The implementation of the provisions of the Code of Ethics and generally accepted bioethical principles in the world practice in the work programs of teaching the disciplines of physical therapy will contribute to the formation in future physical therapists/specialists of physical rehabilitation of an adequate system of values, ideological thinking and appropriate level of competence.
Conclusions. Principles of bioethics are life guidelines for the practical, research and scientific activity of physical therapists. Combining the appropriate level of professional theoretical knowledge with basic deontological, ethical and bioethical principles will help to shape future physical therapists as skilled workers in the field of physical rehabilitation and individuals able to effectively work in a multidisciplinary team, to realize and implement.