Moden Trends of Research of Professiogenesis Problem on the Model of Medical Specialties

Recent changes in Russian society, due to economic instability and the growing influence of Western culture lead to a change in perceptions of the profession and the content of the professional role. This impact is particularly noticeable in professions of socionomic type, where the intensity of personal interactions is significant. The paper provides an overview of modern research on the problem of professional development of medical specialists. The studies were conducted in the interdisciplinary field of medical, sociological, psychological, economic science, which allowed the authors to explicate such socially important phenomena as leadership in the medical profession, the phenomenon deprofessionalization in medicine and its causes, the professional deformation of doctors, expanding the repertory of occupational roles of non-treatment experts, trends in the development of medical sciences and reproduction of scientific potential in medicine and others. In general, the Russian research in its methodology is based on the classical concepts of the profession and keep the continental (European) approach to the concepts of professions and professionalism, keeping professional identity, career path, professional training and competence as the subject of research. The literature review led to the conclusion that in spite of multiplicity sociological studies in the field of individual professionalisation in medicine have quantum nature and affect the individual moments of the doctor's professionalization in modern realities, reflecting the continuity of the process of professionalization and socialization in the general, individual life concept.