THE REQUIREMENTS TO THE TEACHER OF THE HIGHER MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Modernization ways of higher education in Ukraine are determined by European and world tendencies in the development of this sphere. Striving to an endless development, joining the world education space, and overcoming all deformations of the previous period have to become defiant signs of Ukrainian educational reform. So the main task of a modern higher educational institution in Ukraine has to be forming of an innovative educational environment that anticipates not only changes in the organization of education but also im-provement of teachers' professional skills. So that higher education of Ukraine satisfies the demands of time max-imally, such factors as competence, professionalism, intelligence, creativity have to play a leading role in the functioning of this sphere. The article is devoted to the problems of pedagogical and communicative activity of the teacher of the medical educational institution that is a necessary condition for a successful teaching process. The modern psychology and pedagogical science consid-er the relationship between teachers and students as a peculiar socio-psychological phenomenon and an im-portant component of integral pedagogical process of specialist training in the higher educational institution. The problem of subject-subject relations between partici-pants in the educational process becomes especially actual. The main signs of pedagogical communication on this level are: 1) the personal orientation of the interlocutors; 2) the subject-subject characteristics of communication; 3) the insight into the world of feelings and experiences, the readiness to support the interlocutor's position; 4) the innovative communication techniques that are the consequence of leaving of purely role-playing position of the teacher. There were analyzed the main requirements to the teacher of the higher medical educational institution, showed the main directions of his or her activity. It was shown that in its essence, professional and pedagogical activity was integrative, where preventive, scientific, psychological and pedagogical, ideological and medical (for teachers of clinical departments) components were combined. It was shown that the teacher of the higher educational institution had to possess the following com-petencies: professional, pedagogical, socio-economic, communicative ones, and a high level of general culture. There was highlighted the main task of the pedagogue, to help the student to get an active part in the pedagogical process, to provide conditions for the realization of his or her potential possibilities, personal development of future specialist, forming his or her professional competence, stimulation of his or her creative and self-educating activity. In the conditions of transformational processes in the higher education of Ukraine, a breakthrough in the professional work level of the teachers of medical institu-tions is supporting of scientific and pedagogical workers with short-term internships as in other higher educational establishments of the country, as well as in European universities. Such an internship gives useful exchange of scientific ideas, research methods, pedagogical experi-ence, and also helps to realize one of the basic principles of modern European educational practice, mobility of teachers and students. The mobility contributes to that that the education is open for new tendencies, and knowledge becomes a transnational phenomenon.