THE "ANATOMY" OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN FIGURES AND FACTS (THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING STUDENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FACULTY AT A MEDICAL HIGHER SCHOOL)
Training of foreign students at the international faculties of Russian higher schools has in the recent years been gaining greater scales, and this circumstance is by no means related to the Bologna process. The main reason of this now state tendency is the development and strengthening of economic and cultural relations with the former colonial but now successfully developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The organization and conducting this form of educational activity have a number of peculiarities, most notable in the conditions of a medical higher school lodging elevated demands to the quality of training its graduates whose professional omissions will come expensive to their future patients. The present research is an attempt of drawing attention to the most sensitive, deepened aspects of a live educational process not fitting into the frames of a formal administrative reporting. The main of these aspects is the psychological atmosphere in the system “teacher - student” that eventually determines the efficiency of the training activity of an educational institution. The investigation was based on the results of anonymous questioning of 200 students of the international faculty of one of the oldest medical higher schools of our country – the Kursk state medical university that has been teaching foreign students in English for already 25 years. The conducted research has demonstrated that the educational process with this contingent of students has a number of peculiarities, the main of which are a lower compared to the Russian students educational performance, sufficiently elevated self-esteem as well as a higher demand to their teachers’ professional and personal features, explicitly discording with their own attitude to studies. The results of our investigation allow us to draw some conclusions promoting the improvement of the quality of this specific form of educational activity.