Speech competence as one of the components of the future doctor's culture

the article deals with the issues of the formation of speech competence of students of medical universities. The author examines the concepts that form the basis of the future doctor's communicative competence, such as language, speech culture, and communication culture, which include not only basic psychological and pedagogical knowledge, patterns of mental processes, personality types, the ability to speak and listen, as well as the ability to use nonverbal communication components in the process of interacting with a patient. "Psychology, pedagogy" solves the tasks of mastering the above knowledge in full, but also issues related to the literacy of speech of modern youth. Among other things, the problems of mastering the knowledge of the specifics of business and interpersonal communication, the rules of building linguistic structures for effective interaction in the professional activity of a doctor and the need to solve them are outlined. As part of the educational process at a medical university, it is necessary to pay close attention to the formation of students' communicative and speech competence, which will further develop through the experience of communication in a professional environment and the desire to improve the personal and professional qualities of a medical professional. The author conducted a number of studies with 1st year students of the Faculty of Medicine to assess the level of personal communication skills, as well as the degree of assimilation of speech norms of modern Russian.

education, culture, upbringing, speech competence, communicative competence, higher medical education