The article reveals a number of issues related to identifying the role of education in ensuring the level of communicative competency and determining the conditions that ensure this process. It is shown that in the system of higher education, when solving the problem, the formation and development of the level required in modern conditions is carried out. So in the article, the authors, when highlighting the tasks of higher education, one should determine the importance of education in ensuring the level of social and intercultural competency, calling upbringing of a widely erudite, cultural, active personality capable of effective communication in the world space among the tasks of higher education. The article highlights the problem of the formation of professional communicative competency of medical students. The analysis of the role of education in the modern world of the meaning of the concepts of “competencyˮ and “communicative competencyˮ in the interpretation of modern and foreign scientists is carried out. The article focuses on the need to create conditions for the formation and development of students' communicative competence through educational programmes of the humanitarian block, which include the discipline “Communication technologies in professional activityˮ, implemented in the training of foreign students – future medical workers. The authors focus on communicative competence as one of the leading among other competences and necessary for solving communicative tasks in professionally oriented and educational and cognitive activities. The allocation of this competency and the formation of communicative competence provides students with the opportunity to acquire professional knowledge, the necessary experience for constructive interaction in a multicultural environment.