Patient-centered approach in the formation of communicative competence of future doctors

The paper presents one of the interactive ways of forming the communicative competence of future doctors – a case study, which involves the analysis of simulated, real and artistically reproduced communication situations corresponding to the medical discourse. Considering the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard, one of the general cultural competencies of a modern doctor is the possession of communicative skills in professional activities. In order to improve continuously the communication skills of medical students we propose to introduce an additional elective module course for the senior students of the medical university. The article describes the structural part of the proposed special course: «Fundamentals of improving the communicative competencies of medical students», which includes the following sections: information, training and simulation. The novelty of the study is to illustrate specific learning tasks with a patient-centered focus, as well as to analyze a number of situations, taking into account the realization of their communicative effect. Moreover, we demonstrated the analysis of the literary text, A. Chekhov’s short story “Ward No 6”, the linguistic interpretation of which allows to reveal the communicative strategies of the doctors in order to achieve their communicative tasks. The assignments of the special course proposed in the article are aimed at studying the cases to fill them up with speech content in accordance with the specified communication parameters and evaluating students' activities from the point of view of their chosen strategy (optimal, effective / incorrect, ineffective) and speech tools that represent it. The linguistic and methodical aspect of the presented work enables to apply its results in teaching special courses aimed at improving the communicative behavior of a doctor.