ETHICS OF COMMUNICATION AS A KEY ASPECT OF THE “DOCTOR’S SPEECH CULTURE” DISCIPLINE IN A MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The article discusses a current problem of compliance with the ethics of communication between a doctor and a patient. The authors of the article conduct a survey of medical university students about their satisfaction with communication with a doctor in order to identify factors influencing the communication between doctor and patient. The authors prove that the translators of ethical knowledge are the humanities, in particular the philological discipline “Culture of Doctor’s Speech,” which is designed to form communicative competencies sufficient for a multi-level process of communication between a doctor and a patient. Language material has been collected that demonstrates insufficient attention to speech practice in the field of medicine, the consequences associated with violation of the ethical aspect of speech culture are described, and justification is given for the leading role of the ethical side of communication between a doctor and a patient in the implementation of the academic discipline “Doctor’s Speech Culture” in a medical university, since the ethical side of speech culture acts as a criterion for the moral development of a doctor’s personality.