The purpose of this article aims to study the problem of forming students' competencies during the professional training in the university. The paper demonstrates a methodology for the development and application of situational problems as an effective means of forming the professional competencies of university students. The basis of the presented work is the ideas of the competence-based and the activity-based approaches, expert evaluation of the university students' educational activity. The article describes the technology for developing the situational problems, based on the analysis of the professional roles. This article is intended for educators, researchers, and heads of educational institutions that are into the formation and diagnostics of university students' professional competencies.

The basis of state educational policy in the National Doctrine of Education of Russian Federation plays the priority of national spiritual values that defines certain tasks in order to

The importance of the problem presented in the article is determined by the complex of educational strategies, goals and objectives of liberal education of the student -a tomorrow 's professional