Inna Fedotenko

The problem of student development as a subject is quite traditional for the psychological and pedagogical research of higher education. The theoretical foundations for the study of student activities were laid in the works of domestic and foreign scientists S.L. Rubinstein, B.G. Ananyeva, E.F. Seeer, D. Super, J. Holland and others. Psychologists and educators have studied the formation of a student as a person in the process of education in higher educational institutions. As a result, the authors identified the consequences that may arise in case of an unjustified and accidental choice by a student of the direction of training at a university and negatively affect his/her professional self-determination. Therefore, the purpose of our study is to consider the theoretical and analytical aspects of the formation of the professional orientation of students in the context of educational risks arising in the learning process. The scientific relevance is due to the lack of researches on this issue, groundlessness of psychological and pedagogical conditions that increase the effectiveness of the formation of students’ professional orientation, the lack of development mechanism for assigning values to the chosen profession in the educational process of the university. In this regard, the article discusses the issue of educational risks that can inhibit the formation of professional orientation of students, which leads to low cognitive and social motivation. As a result, the future specialist has a weak professional orientation, which leads to a lack of interest in mastering the profession he/she acquires. Thus, at the initial stage of our research, a questionnaire was conducted among students in the area of training "Chemistry" (direction "Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry"), specialty "Pharmacy", allowing us to determine the educational risks and factors that influenced the choice of a university, specialty. The results obtained will help to determine the variability of methods, technologies, to make the process of forming a professional orientation in the field of pharmacy more flexible.