Communicative Professional and Academic Competence of Medical Students Developed During their Ophthalmological Studies
Purpose. To define the structure of the professional and academic communicative competence of the students exhibited during their ophthalmological classes and hold the study of the ophthalmological students’ self-perception of the academic and communicative competence quality Methods. A survey with the Bogomolets National Medical University students of the 4th study year was held in 2021. Fifty-six students were questioned, of which 36 (64.3%) were females and 20 (35.7%) males. The participation in questioning was voluntary. The respondents were asked to choose the main factor representing their professional communicative competence; the main factor representing their academic communicative competence; their strong side of communication with the patients; define the importance of the academic and professional communicative skills, and estimate their ability to communicate with the patient by the 5-point grade. Results. The significance of well-shaped professional and academic communicative competence for the ophthalmological students is evident, with the students’ choice of high significance of the communicative competence. The students’ self-perception of their communicative and academic skills is rather high, though by their vision, their communicative professional and academic competence is represented mainly with their speaking skills and the ethical skills. Unfortunately, goal-setting, non-verbal skills and language skills of writing and reading are considered by the medical ophthalmological students as insignificant, though they play their role in the communicative competence structure. This evidences about the necessity of emphasizing these components during students’ theoretical and practical courses by the teaching staff.