The Importance of Future Doctors’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence and the Stages of Its Formation

Abstract

Under the circumstances of globalization large groups of the population are migrating with the purpose of study and employment in other countries where English is increasingly becoming the language of communication. Ukraine's participation in global processes of integration, the expansion of international relations will significantly increase the status of foreign languages in the professional activities of specialists in various fields, especially in medicine. European recommendations on language educationdefine that university graduates should freely express their own points of view without wasting time searching for appropriate language tools while achieving professional goals. The performance of this task requires a high level of doctor’s foreign language communicative competence formation. O. Pidmazina notes that the success of its formation is possible under the condition of the competence approach is introduced to the teaching process. Its implementation in modern medical education brings up-to-date issue of transition from the traditional model of higher medical education, which was focused on information-accumulating principles, to a result-oriented one. It contributes to the formation of the future doctor's maturity to perform tasks in no ordinary professional situations. The modern system of medical education in various countries is focused on the final result that considers the training of doctors who are able to make professional decisions on their own in accordance with the defined tasks and functions