ЗНАЧЕННЯ ІНШОМОВНОЇ КОМУНІКАТИВНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ МАЙБУТНЬОГО ЛІКАРЯ ТА ЕТАПИ ЇЇ ФОРМУВАННЯ

Abstract

The article deals with the significance of students’ foreign language communicative competence formation as the important component of future doctor’s professional competence. Communication with patients occurs during all stages of medical practice; as a consequence, effectiveness of doctor’s professional activity mainly depends on speaking skills. Taking into consideration the necessity of continuous professional development with the possibility of receiving information from different sources, knowledge of English becomes an integral part of doctor’s professional training. Thus, foreign language communicative competence formation is determined as the main aim of medical students’ professional training in English for their ability to communicate in international professional society. Vocabulary component is established as the core constituent of future doctors’ foreign language communicative competence formation. Its formation is offered to organize into three stages: visual and language semantization, automation of vocabulary skills at a passage level, automation of vocabulary skills at a text level. Special tasks and activities were developed for each stage. Following them creates an opportunity to encourage discussions among students and in this way improve their foreign language communicative competence. It is considered as the one of the most important competencies of modern doctor which allows enhancing competitive ability of future doctors in the context of globalization and internationalization of society.