PRACTICE OF USING MICROSOFT TEAMS PLATFORM IN ORGANIZING THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS FOR FUTURE DOCTORS

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Abstract. The article deals with the issues of using the online platform Microsoft Teams for organizing the educational process at the Department of Foreign Languages of I. Ya. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine under wartime conditions.With the beginning of the war in Ukraine, digital platforms have become not a potential opportunity, but the primary option for organizing synchronous interaction among participants of the educational process during various types of educational activities, creating and delivering various types of content. During distance and mixed learning, the teacher must conduct online classes in synchronous process, according to the approved schedule, and organize various types of educational activities using appropriate tools for video conferences’ organization, etc.The Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) service is among such tools that allow to schedule meeting, conduct classes online, and provide access to various types of educational content as well as to activate students’ speaking abilities and develop skills in using computer technology.MS Teams provides an effective online environment for distance or mixed learning using a set of information tools, i.e. forming teams and channels with their own content, organizing video meetings within a team or channel, distributing students into group rooms, chat, screen sharing, whiteboard, raising hand, recording meetings, the ability to plan, create, and performa variety of written and oral assignments, etc.The application of various digital technologies of the Microsoft Teams platform at classes helps students to master foreign terminological vocabulary, grammatical and syntactic constructions, speech and communicative skills necessary for professional communication. Mastering modern technologies of the Microsoft Teams platform by teachers and students and their integration into the educational process creates prerequisites for successful learning and studying of foreign languages using a distance format.Using the Microsoft Teams platform under wartime conditions at professionally targeted classes of English and Latin has been found to develop speaking skills and abilities that provide an opportunity to express an opinion, develop thinking, as well as to have high motivational characteristics, taking into account the realities of today.