DEVELOPING A FUTURE DOCTOR’S COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Developing communication skills in interacting with a patient is a fundamental component in educational programme for doctors at higher medical school. Biopsychosocial patient relationship model is recognized by the international community as the most effective for medical care and is focused on patient-centered communication. In the article the training course “Speech aspects of patient-centered communication” is presented, it is being developed within the framework of the project FOR21 - "Fostering the doctor of the 21st century: education for patient-centered communication". The material of the study is the provisions formulated in the works on medical communication. Due to the method of the project activity which involved 300 students of Tyumen Medical University the empirical data (role playing videos, texts containing effective and ineffective communication with a doctor) were obtained, systematized and used for developing the topics of the training course. This course contains 3 modules: “Linguistic features of medical communication”, “Communicative analysis of doctor-patient dialogues”, “Scenarios of doctor-patient communication and speech features of their implementation”. The paper deals with some issues reflecting the course concept, offers the methods for developing future doctors’ communication skills, taking into account the conscious choice of linguistic means for implementing the doctor’s intentions, as well as, criteria for assessing the students’ communicative actions.