Educational capital as a basis for formation of labor strategies

On the basis of general scientific dialectical approaches, the article examines the issues of formation and development of educational capital as an integral part of human capital. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the impact of the quality and level of education on the possibility of building labor strategies using the example of employees in healthcare as, as a specific industry in terms of building career trajectories. The features characteristic for formation of the educational capital of medical workers are highlighted. Based on the study of opinions (sociological surveys) of doctors and nurses at metropolitan healthcare organizations, conclusions were drawn: about availability and necessity for them to receive additional education, about the factors affecting the level of professionalism in performing work duties, about the most relevant types of training programs within the framework of continuing medical education, about the career types characteristic of medical personnel. It is shown that healthcare workers who successfully implement their professional labor strategy, as a rule, not only make optimal use of their existing educational capital, but also constantly improve their qualifications on the basis of continuous medical education. There are identified: categories of workers who are most in need of additional training; current directions of educational programs for heads of medical institutions; features of educational and professional trajectories connected with higher nursing education; differences in the opinions of doctors and nurses regarding the necessity and importance of self-education in the process of forming (replenishing) their educational potential. Rapid development of innovative technologies in medicine, which entails the need for advanced training of specialists, requires search for new effective forms of training for healthcare workers.