Foreign language training complex as a tool for developing professional communication culture of future doctors

In the paper the researcher addresses the issue of developing professional communication culture of future doctors through the «Foreign Language» discipline in a medical university due to the high communicative potential of this discipline. Drawing on the analysis of domestic and foreign sources, the author revises the goal and objectives of the «Foreign Language» discipline in a medical university, formulates criteria for selecting the content of teaching a foreign language, updates the content of the foreign language training course, justifies the choice of communication areas, topics and typical situations of professional communication within the subject aspect of the content of education, determines the coordinating role of the textbook in the conditions of the modern educational environment. The paper gives a detailed description of the main areas of research on improving a foreign language textbook in non-linguistic universities, which includes designing the structure and content of didactic resources, taking into account widespread digitalization, rethinking the leading function of the textbook, determining the organizational and methodological dominant of creating specialized educational and methodological resources, the problem of educational resources quality assessment, updating the requirements for didactic resources in the 21st century. In conclusion, it presents the main provisions of the concept of the educational and methodological complex in a foreign language at a medical university in the aspect of developing the foundations of professional communication culture of future doctors. The main focus of the concept is the features of the complex structure, participation of linguistic and medical departments’ representatives at the organizational and methodological stages of creating didactic materials, defining the influencing function of the textbook on the professional development of the future specialist, the change in the role of the teacher and the student in the process of the «Foreign Language» course implementation.

Keywords: communication culture, communication culture development, foreign language discipline, foreign language textbook, medical university