DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCIES OF FOREIGN STUDENTS IN HIGHER MEDICAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article defines the directions of developing of professional communication skills of the students of higher medical education in the process of studying in higher medical educational institutions of Ukraine. It is shown that the general tendency is to improve the paradigm of a set of foreign entrants and to ensure the quality of providing educational services in order to withstand competition with China, South Korea, Poland and other countries. It is determined that the model of medical education in the USA is introduced in the domestic higher medical educational institutions, which involves cooperation with hospitals, where students can directly study «near the patient»; increase in the list of clinical databases, enabling several specialties to be covered. Taking into account the peculiarities of the vocational education of future specialists in the field of «Health» in higher educational institutions of Ukraine, the need to improve the educational process by introducing the disciplines «Communication skills of doctors», «First pre-nursing care», «Ethics and deontology in pharmacy», courses for choice («Psychology of communication», «Aesthetics», «Ethics»). The level of satisfaction with vocational education in higher medical education institutions was determined on the example of the Bohomolets National Medical University. It is proved that the main thing in the process of vocational education of specialists in higher medical institutions of Ukraine is: constant updating of the practical orientation of teaching of study subjects and elective courses aimed at developing professional communicative skills and professional culture of specialists in the field of «Health»; improvement of educational and methodological support of the educational process; an indispensable combination of theory with clinical practice.