PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE CULTURE OF FUTURE DOCTORS IN THE LIGHT OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The article deals with interpretation of principal concepts of medical specialists’ professional and communicative culture in the context of professional education. The essence of professional culture, which is an important component of the professional profile of a future healthcare worker is clarified. It is emphasized that the formation of professional and communicative culture of a medical student is an integral aspect of professionally oriented education in medical institution of higher education and is carried out by mastering the features of professional communication. Emphasis is placed on the need to analyze various methods and approaches to the formation of professional and communicative culture in students with different levels of knowledge and skills. The issues of content and efficiency of the process of professional communicative competence formation, selection of educational material, development of communicative component in the process of students’ mastering the basics of communication culture are examined. The effective ways of formation of valuable professional activity are characterized; the levels of professional culture of future specialists, which are professional literacy, professional competence, motivational-valuable and emotional-sensory components are observed; the need to learn vocabulary for the correct formulation of the statement is emphasized; the main dominants of communicative culture are outlined. It is proposed to state the professional and communicative culture of future doctors as a complex and dynamic personal essence that embraces a system of humanistic and professional values, speech and ethical knowledge, communicative skills and qualities, patterns of behaviour, norms and rules of professional communication activities that are related to the peculiarities of profession and provide high efficiency of professional communication of doctors.