FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN UPDATED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF MEDICAL AND PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE SPECIALISTS: RESPONSES TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE FEDERAL STATE EDUCATIONAL STANDARD 3++

Abstract

The training of preventive healthcare specialists is of paramount national importance, since the main area of their professional activity is ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population and protecting consumer rights. However, experts in the field of medical education point out the contradictions between the requirements for vocational training and the organization of the educational process oriented towards the consumer. The authors of the article have analyzed the qualitative potential and the results of the new course “Business Foreign Language” introduced into the professional training of preventive healthcare specialists. It was concluded that the results of the innovative course “Business Foreign Language”, developed and tested at the preventive medical faculty of the Voronezh State Medical University, demonstrate a significant qualitative potential of a foreign language for solving the tasks of the Federal State Educational Standard 3 ++.