Olympiad as a form of a career guidance event in a medical university

Abstract

The article considers integration of e-learning technologies into the process of career guidance for the first-year students of Kemerovo State Medical University. The subject of the research is students’ disappointment in the choice of their future profession which results from the lack of continuous career guidance at all stages of educational process. The object is conducting extra-curriculum events as a continuous students’ professional orientation support to preserve their interest and involvement into educational process and consequently into their future career. The authors describe in details the stages and tasks of the Latin language Olympiad for medical students to provoke their interest and show the significance of the discipline for their future job activities and international collaboration. The scientific novelty of the research is in integration of elements of blended learning in the vocational guidance activities that is certain to stimulate students’ cognitive ability and upgrade their soft and hard skills. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the described model of the Latin Language Olympiad held for medical university students can be used as part of the implementation of career guidance activities with students of any specialties.