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4. Postgraduate professional education provides citizens with the opportunity to improve the level of education, scientific, pedagogical qualifications on the basis of higher professional education. The system of postgraduate professional education includes:

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  postgraduate studies (preparation of candidates of sciences, the term of study is 3 years);
  
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  doctoral studies (preparation of doctors of sciences, duration of study is 3 years);
  
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  · internship and residency at medical higher educational institutions;
  
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  academies, institutes, faculties of advanced training at universities
  

Modern requirements for personnel training in the system of vocational education
The requirements for training personnel in the system of vocational education are determined by the following trends in the development of modern society.

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  · Accelerating the pace of development of society, expanding opportunities for political and social choice, which makes it necessary to increase the level of readiness of citizens for such a choice;
  
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  · The transition to a post-industrial and information society, a significant expansion of the scale of intercultural interaction.
  
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  · The emergence and growth of global problems that can only be solved as a result of cooperation within the international community.
  
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  Dynamic development of the economy, increased competition, reduction in the scope of unskilled and low-skilled labor, deep structural changes in the field of employment [14]
  

The main task of the vocational education system is the training of professionals with not only professional competence and qualifications, but also key qualifications and key competencies.

Key qualifications are general professional knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as the abilities and qualities of a person necessary to perform work in this group of professions. Key qualifications determine the productive implementation of integrative activities. Typical for professionals. For example, considering the substructure of professional qualities "professional orientation" in accordance with the four-component professionally determined structure of the personality of a specialist E.F. Zeer , can be identified as a professionally determined key qualification "Social and professional abilities: readiness for cooperation, focus on achievements, success and professional growth, corporatism, reliability, social responsibility, etc."