Formation of future doctor’s professional communication culture within the competence-based approach

The article deals with the formation of future doctor’s professional communication culture within the competence-based approach. The author determines the current changes that have caused the introduction of new requirements to the results of future doctors’ training at the present stage. Based on the achievements of Russian and international academics the author defines the concept of professional communication culture in relation to the medical field, describes its component composition, highlighting the communication knowledge, skills and personal qualities, specific to key communication situations in the field of healthcare. The author reveals the communicative and humanitarian potential of the discipline «Foreign Language», which determines, along with other humanitarian disciplines, the effectiveness of the professional communication culture formation process. The article offers methods and principles of training, methodological tools and conditions for the most productive process of professional communication culture formation. The validity of the proposed pedagogical and methodological conditions of the learning process is confirmed by the qualitative and quantitative results of the experiment on the future doctor’s professional communication culture formation, conducted at the Foreign Languages Department of Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University in the 2017-2018 academic year.