Abstract
The modern stage of social development requires medical specialists to be proficient in a foreign language using it as a means of communication to solve professional and social problems. To achieve this purpose, it is necessary to establish a close link between the training process and the criteria and the content of the trainee’s professional activity. This involves solving the next task - identifying the communicative needs of a medical specialist when using a foreign language. To solve this problem, we undertook a study, which used a complex of methods: the study and analysis of scientific literature on the research topic, a survey using the developed questionnaire; methods of mathematical statistics for processing the results obtained during the survey. The survey was carried out among medical specialists of different categories working in medical institutions of the town of Cheboksary of the Chuvash Republic. The study revealed that the communicative needs of a medical specialist when using a foreign language are primarily pragmatic, so the process of teaching a foreign language should be profession-oriented, be subject to the main professional activity and contribute to solving professional problems. The result of the given study is the creation of an online English course for higher medical schools students with the help of distance educational technologies. This course is created taking into account the functional and psychological features peculiar to this contingent of students as well as specifics of their future work activity, past language experience and specific aims and objectives.
Highlights
Modern realities put forward new requirements for specialists in almost any of the spheres of life
In the course of the study, our purpose was to determine the communicative needs of a medical professional when using a foreign language, namely: levels of language proficiency according to self-assessment performed by informants of different categories; opinions of medical specialists on the need to improve the level of proficiency in a foreign language; areas of communication in which medical professionals have to use a foreign language; the needs of medical specialists in improving the form of work in the reading process; types of oral communication of medical specialists
Judging by the survey results, the attitude of medical professionals working in different fields to the importance of a foreign language for their professional activity is different: to a lesser extent the need in proficiency in a foreign language is noted by doctors of polyclinics
Summary
Modern realities put forward new requirements for specialists in almost any of the spheres of life. One such requirement is proficiency in a foreign language at the level that would be sufficient for information exchange and interaction with colleagues. Medicine is no exception: in this area, taking into account the trends of modern development, proficiency in a foreign language is an advantage, but rather a sine qua non for mastering achievements of medicine in other countries, for participating in research conducted jointly with foreign colleagues.
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