THE ROLE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE DISCIPLINE (RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) IN TRAINING OF MEDICAL UNIVERSITY GRADUATES

Abstract

Attracting a foreign contingent of students to universities, including medical ones, is dictated by the current trend of globalization and unification of education, which in turn requires intercultural communication. Since educational activities are carried out in Russian, the state language of the Russian Federation, a foreign student must acquire knowledge of the Russian language while studying at a higher educational institution. The necessity and expediency of the discipline “Foreign Language” (Russian) is determined by the requirements of modern professional training of specialists in the areas of “General Medicine”, “Dentistry”, “Pharmacy”. The article describes issues of the target orientation of the discipline, principles of its construction in terms of structure and content, emphasizes the importance of its interdisciplinary nature. The authors of the article describe the criteria determined by the professional competencies formed in each section of the discipline. According to the authors of the article, the discipline “Foreign Language” in a medical university, in addition to the main task (mastering communicative competencies), plays a fundamental role in the level of mastering medical disciplines and in the level of professional communication between a doctor and a patient. This emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary connections that determine the content of the grammatical and lexical material selected for practicing in the classroom in Russian as a foreign language.