Objective - the objective of this direction in the system of teaching the students foreign languages for special goals is the development of foreign language communication, which may be proved useful to future specialists in their successful communication with foreign colleagues on such topic as analysis, examination of a patient, ability to present a patient, description of a practical case, participation in discussion, substantiation of the diagnostics choice and treatment, doctor’s round of patients, use of intercultural communication in the chosen medical profession.Material and methods. The studying of the medical discourse promotes the formation of the language image of up-to-date physician, development of his (her) communicative influence on the patient in any situation. This aspect efficacy of the medical activity depends upon speech culture of the representatives of the given linguistic communicative profession, since this principle plays not the last role for the successful diagnostics and treatment of patients, prevention of diseases.Doctor’s ability to be skillful in using words comes into the rank of his (her) professional competence; therefore, during the process of teaching foreign languages the teachers realize medical discourse for professional purposes, which verbally determines the concept “Doctor – patient – relatives”.Results. Verbal communication of doctors, medical personnel are inseparable from their professional activity, where they use different kinds of intercourse such as exchange of opinion concerning various aspects of organizing, medicinal, preventive daily work, public intercourse ( meetings, conferences), which form integral picture of the discursive doctor’s activity as curator, interlocutor, consultant, psychologist.Conclusions. In the limits of elaboration of a modern pattern of discursive competence, the representatives of medical profession must direct the whole course of training future medical men to the teaching of the medical discourse for proper use of many-sided elements of the given linguistic phenomenon.