REMEDIUMREMEDIUM1561-59362658-3534Joint-Stock Company Chicot177710.32687/1561-5936-2025-29-2-162-166Original ArticleDigital competencies of a medical professional: a modern standard of professionalismBaranovaTamara V.bartoma007@gmail.comGurtskoyLev D.levang@mail.ruSmirnovaEvgeniya K.dr.smirnovaek@mail.ruAndrusovVadim E.vadim_andrusov@mail.ruBurkovskayaYulia V.burkovskayayv@zdrav.mos.ruResearch Institute of Healthcare Organization and Medical Management, Moscow, RussiaN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, Moscow, Russian Federation15122025216216617102025Copyright © 2025,2025In the context of the digital transformation of healthcare, medical personnel are faced with the need to master digital competencies that ensure sustainable professional viability in a new clinical and organizational environment. The article presents a theoretical and analytical justification for the need to develop digital literacy of medical professionals, reveals the structure of digital competencies, including technical, informational, communicative, legal and reflexive components. The key reasons for the demand for digital skills in professional activities are analyzed: the implementation of the state policy of digitalization of healthcare, the growth of clinical information, the development of telemedicine, and the increase in digital activity of patients. Based on the analysis of statistical, regulatory and empirical sources, conclusions are formulated about the need for the institutional implementation of digital competencies in the system of training and support of medical personnel.digital competenciesmedical personneldigital literacyelectronic medical recordtelemedicineinformation securitydigitalization of healthcareцифровые компетенциимедицинский персоналцифровая грамотностьэлектронная медицинская картателемедицинаинформационная безопасностьцифровизация здравоохранения1.The Ministry of Health of Russia. Information and analytical report on the progress of the digital transformation of healthcare. Moscow; 2023. (In Russ.)2.Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation. Digital skills in the healthcare system: state and prospects. Moscow; 2023. (In Russ.)3.Analysis of the telemedicine market in Russia in 2019—2023, forecast for 2024—2028 — Businessstat; 2024. (In Russ.)4.The Center for Digital Medicine. Analysis of digital competencies of medical workers in the Russian Federation. Moscow; 2023. (In Russ.)5.Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. On the results of the work of the Ministry of Health of Russia for 2023. Moscow; 2024. (In Russ.)6.Association of IT developers in healthcare. Integration of the IIA with the EGISZ: the experience of the regions. Moscow; 2023. (In Russ.)7.Roszdravnadzor. Report on the Federal State control (supervision) of the quality and safety of medical activities for 2024. Moscow; 2025. (In Russ.)8.Starshinin A. V., Aksenova E. I., Andrusov V. E. et al. Telemedicine in medical organizations: a monograph. Moscow; 2023. (In Russ.)9.Aksenova E. I., Gorbatov S. Yu. Digitalization of healthcare: experience and examples of transformation in healthcare systems in the world. Moscow; 2020. (In Russ.)