COMMUNICATIVE MINDSET OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND ITS CORRECTION ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES
COMMUNICATIVE MINDSET OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND ITS CORRECTION ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the empirical study of the medical students’ communicative mindset, its peculiarities and basic characteristics as well as its role in relation to the future interaction with patients; correction of the mindset on the foreign language classes, a subject from the special purposes cycle. The article analyses main viewpoints of the modern pedagogical scientists referring to the communicative mindsets, it reveals the importance of the physician’s communicative mindset for reaching positive treatment outcome. The author defines the necessity of positive communicative mindset and low communicative negativism for the productive interaction of a physician with a patient. The author describes the main characteristics of the communicative mindset of medical students, shows the structural components which must be corrected. The article contains the description of the instruments and diagnostic methods used for detecting the communicative mindset level in the surveyed medical students. According to the empirical study, conducted in 2008-2015 with the medical students, the author diagnosed low level of the communicative mindset of the medical students. Aimed at correction of the detected characteristics, the author provides her personal recommendations of introducing some components of the psychological-deontological training, aimed at correction of the students’ communicative mindset. The article contains description of the modules as well as theoretical grounding of the course; some types of drills are presented in the article. The article contains description of a practical English class with introduced psychological-deontological training drills, which were aimed at improving the characteristics of the future physicians; communicative mindset, the offered materials may be interesting for both high school teachers and administration personnel, and for the institutional psychologists

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